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5G, lead to high expectations? Stop thinking and read this post till the end

5G networks are the next generation of mobile internet connectivity, allowing smartphones and other devices to connect at faster rates and with more reliability than ever before.

The next-generation wireless communication standard, connects gadgets, machines, enterprises, and people. In comparison to any previous mobile network, 5G in India and abroad is able to give faster multi-gigabit per second data speeds, gigantic bandwidth and network capacity, ultra-low latency, improved availability, and more reliability.

This technological breakthrough in the form of its mobile connectivity allows for a more consistent user experience as well as the introduction of new services, applications, and experiences that are rapidly linking the world.

The Enhanced Mobile Broadband (EMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC), and Machine Machine-type Communication features of a 5G network enable IoT, AI, smart buildings, self-driving cars, automated factories, AR/VR experiences, ultra-HD live streaming, telesurgery, and other applications (MMTC).

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Until Now, India’s 5G journey:

61 nations around the world have commercial 5G networks up and running by the beginning of 2021. What it’s the current status in India?

In 2017, the government convened a high-level group to chart a path to a 5G India by 2020. In 2018, the 5G in India conference asked communication technology companies to perform large-scale experiments and develop a framework for its Applications and Use Case Labs in India. India is anticipated to be one of the first countries to use this technology.

As equipment suppliers and tech companies began launching their testbeds in India and began working on use case development, there was a greater emphasis on getting Indian telecom equipment manufacturers to join its trial. The argument in India’s 5G telecom circles concerning the reliability of foreign telecom equipment has thus been a major reason for its delay in the country.

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Deliberations on the development of particular 5G India standards have been another essential aspect of it in India journey. While the Telecommunications Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI) has pushed telcos to test it, a homegrown standard with a Large Cell Low Mobility enhancement for better coverage in rural areas, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has argued for the global 3GPP standard to be implemented in India. They continue to believe that 5Gi will cause interoperability problems. The ongoing argument is causing its launch in India to be further delayed.

Of course, 2020 was the year of the pandemic, which brought India and the rest of the world to a halt, hastening its launch in India. Following that, in 2021, a parliamentary panel report on its status in India concluded that “sufficient preparatory work has not been undertaken for launching its services in India” – due to insufficient spectrum availability, excessive spectrum pricing, poor development of test cases, insufficient backhaul capacity, the limited reach of optical fibre across the country, or the lack of formal approvals for testing it in India.

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Expected future of 5G in India:

We can build a much clearer perspective of the future leading up to its debut in India, given the relatively stop-start journey of 5G in India, which is now collecting fervour.

According to the conclusions of the government and the Department of Telecom, the large-scale network infrastructure required for the introduction of 5G India is still lacking. As a result, we should expect a faster rate of fiberization in the next 6-9 months to connect rural India to its impending services. According to the National Broadband Mission, roughly 2 million kilometres of optical fibre will be built across the country by 2024, covering 70% of the nation’s towers.

In India, STL is also contributing to the development of fibre infrastructure and architecture. To support the Make in India ecosystem, STL announced intentions to invest in mobile 5G infrastructure in the form of software, hardware, and people recruiting in July 2020. STL has set aside Rs. 300 crores this year to increase our optical fibre capacity between India and Europe from 18 million km to 33 million km.

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We’ve also put money into a one-of-a-kind end-to-end development of completely programmable, open, and disaggregated Open RAN 5G-NR and Private LTE solutions that take advantage of real-time intelligence and Edge Convergence Orchestration to improve network performance. Small cells, outdoor multi-band radio, and Open RAN standards compliant WiFi-6 solutions are among our 5G-enabled wireless solutions for citizen networks, telcos, corporations, and governments.

Simultaneously, mobile carriers in India are scheduled to perform 5G testing in both rural and semi-urban settings, as well as metropolitan areas, during the following six months. Various 5G devices, use cases, and applications will be tested in Indian contexts, including remote education, telemedicine, drone-based agriculture monitoring, and others across multiple industrial sectors. The first two months will be dedicated to acquiring and installing 5G technology, either through import or indigenously developed technology.

Following the launch of mmWave bands for 5G in India, operators will test this intriguing spectrum, which will be important in enabling ultra-high-speed Fixed Access Network (FWA) and Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) use cases in India. Given its potential to improve rural broadband access via ultra-long range cell sites, the native 5Gi standard established by IIT will very certainly be evaluated for feasibility.

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The 5G India spectrum auction is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2022, once the trials are completed. This auction will allot units in the 3.5 GHz band, the 26 MHz mmWave band, and the highly desirable 700 MHz band, which went unsold in the recently finished 4G auctions despite a nearly 40% price decrease.

Reasonably, telecom service providers will anticipate a reduction in the already excessive spectrum pricing, allowing them to save money on the commercial launch of 5G in India and making it practicable for mass adoption. We will finally be able to meet the 5g launch date in India on time, which might be in the first half of 2022, assuming no additional delays. By 2026, we may expect 350 million 5G subscribers in India, and the 4G network would be phased down.

Taking the scenario into account, we can estimate that the launch of 5G in India will most likely occur in the mid-to late-half of 2022. In this regard, it is expected that within a year of its launch, at least 40 million smartphone users in India will be early adopters of 5G. Despite this hopeful forecast, 4G may certainly continue to dominate the Indian mobile communication scene for another 3-4 years until 5G becomes widely available in the country. Only hope remains.

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5G should deliver connections that are thousands of times quicker than existing mobile technologies, with typical download rates of roughly 1Gbps projected to be the standard across many (if not all) next-gen networks.

The networks are intended to boost Internet of Things technologies by providing the infrastructure required to transport massive volumes of data, enabling a smarter and more connected society. Thousands of sensors might literally tell operators what’s going on in your house, town, or city in real time.

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