5G launch round-up: PM promises ‘internet for all’; Jio will cover entire India by December 23′, Airtel launches service in 8 cities

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Launched 5G telecom services in India on Saturday India The India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Delhi in 2022, ushered in an era of ultra-high-speed Internet services that would progressively cover the entire country over the next few years.

Launching the fifth generation or 5G services in the country at an event at Pragati Maidan, PM Modi said that it marks the beginning of a new era and presents an infinite sky of opportunities. “Today 130 crore Indians are getting a wonderful gift from the country and the telecom industry of the country in the form of 5G,” he said, adding that 5G is the beginning of a new era. “5G is the beginning of an infinite sky of opportunities.”

Telecom operators including Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio began a phased rollout from today. In August, India’s biggest ever auction of telecom spectrum received a record Rs 1.5 lakh crore of bids, with Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio leading with a bid of Rs 88,078 crore and Airtel second with a bid of Rs 43,084 crore. remained in place.

Here are the top updates:

• PM Modi launched 5G services: PM Modi in his address said that the government has focused on four pillars. “First, the cost of the device. Second, digital connectivity. Third, the cost of data. Fourth, and most important, the idea of ​​’digital first’,” Modi said, adding that his government is working on “internet for all”. Is. Just as the government started the door-to-door campaign to provide electricity, worked on the mission of providing clean water to all through the Har Ghar Jal Abhiyan and delivered gas cylinders to the poorest of the poor through the Ujjwala scheme, it is now This is how the goal of Internet for all is working.”
• ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’: Lauding the success of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, PM Modi said: “Many people made fun of my Atmanirbhar Bharat. But we have increased mobile phone manufacturing units in India. Eight years ago, there were only two mobile manufacturing units. Today, there are over 200 units in India. We are second in the world.”
• “Null export from…’: PM Modi said, the country is sending phones worth crores of rupees abroad against zero exports a few years back. “From exporting zero mobile phones in 2014, today we have become a mobile phone exporting country worth thousands of crores. Naturally, all these efforts have had an impact on the cost of the device. Now we are getting more features at lesser cost.
• Telecom companies 5G. show the ability technology in India: After the 5G launch by the PM, three major telecom operators – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea demonstrated a use case to showcase the potential of 5G technology in India. Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio connected a teacher from a Mumbai school with students from three different locations in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Odisha. The Vodafone Idea trial demonstrated the safety of workers in an under-construction tunnel of the Delhi Metro through the construction of a ‘digital twin’ of the tunnel on the platform. In the Airtel Demo, students from Dankaur, Uttar Pradesh witnessed a vibrant and immersive education experience to learn about the Solar System with the help of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
• Jio 5G will be available across India by December 2023: Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani said that Reliance Jio will launch 5G services in all corners of the country by the end of 2023. “I would like to reiterate Jio’s commitment to provide 5G in every city, every taluka and every tehsil of our country. until December 2023. Most of Jio’s 5G is developed in India, and hence Atmanirbhar is the seal of India,” he said. “India may have started a little late, but I want to assure you all, we will be the first to finish by introducing 5G services in every nook and corner of India. And as an industry, we will ensure that we have the highest quality and cheapest rates than anyone else in the world,” he said.
• COVID can’t stop India, says Sunil Mittal Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, in his speech lauded PM Modi and said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s heartbeat did not stop for a minute as traffic moved from cities to villages and offices to homes, All this happened because of Prime Minister’s Digital India. sight. He also acknowledged the efforts of industry colleague and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, praising him for pushing 4G in India. “He made us rush to adjust with him,” Mittal said. The chairman of Bharti Enterprises also praised PM Modi’s ‘Make in India’ pitch as he admitted that he never imagined that India would become a manufacturing hub especially for electronics. “In October 1982, I saw a push-button telephone in Taiwan and brought it here to start its manufacturing in India. Today, 40 years later, I am proud that Bharti Airtel is the leader in 5G technology.”
• Kumar Birla lauds ‘General Leap’ Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla also praised the Prime Minister, as he lauded his leadership and vision, due to which “we are witnessing a generational leap in technology”. “The telecom industry has been one of India’s major growth engines, placing India among the top five economies of the world. It is playing a transformative role touching every aspect of our daily life and work. Today we are ready to take a big leap into the future. As PM Modi launches 5G today, the telecom industry will further ignite the digital dreams of 1.3 billion Indians and many thousands of enterprises. It will also set the stage for the country to become a $5 trillion economy in the next few years.
• Airtel becomes first company to launch 5G services in India Bharti Airtel’s 5G service will be available in eight cities from Saturday, its president Sunil Bharti Mittal said at the event. The company has yet to disclose all eight regions, though Mittal said Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi and Bangalore are some of them. Mittal also said that Airtel will launch 5G services in several cities across the country by March 2023 and across India by March 2024. According to a senior company official, Airtel 5G services will be available at existing 4G rates and there will be a new tariff for 5G. announced after some time. The official said that 5G services are also being started in Chennai, Hyderabad and Siliguri. Bharti Airtel Head technology Officer Randeep Singh Sekhon said that the company’s backend infrastructure is ready.
• Vodafone Idea does not specify launch, coverage timeline: Vodafone Idea has not offered any specific timeline for the launch or coverage of ultra high-speed internet services. “We will soon start the 5G rollout journey. We will leverage our strong presence in rural India, our enterprise customers, our technology partners and Vodafone Group’s global experience to progressively roll out our 5G network and services in the times to come,” Birla said on the rollout schedule or deadline specified. Said without saying
• 5G Rollout in Diwali?: With the 5G launch, both Reliance Jio and Airtel are preparing for the Diwali launch for their 5G services. Both Jio and Airtel will initially launch their 5G services in select metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
• PM Modi’s demo from Jio Chairman Akash Ambani: Ahead of the launch, PM Modi had a first-hand experience of 5G-related services as he walked around the pavilions at the exhibition and a performance by Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani. PM Modi was accompanied by Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, Junior Telecom Minister Devusinh Chouhan and Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani. PM Modi tests “True 5G” devices at Reliance Jio Pavilion and was seen trying out ‘Jio Glass’ with Akash Ambani’s assistance.
• Delhi’s IGI Airport gets 5G services: While 5G services are starting now, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport got ready for 5G a little earlier. IGI airport in Delhi is the first 5G-ready airport in India and received 5G capabilities a few days before the 5G launch.
• Healthcare promotion: Danish Ahmed, founder of healthtrip.com, told News18 that the 5G rollout could have a significant impact on medical tourism in India by enabling ‘tele-surgery’, where surgeons in one location remotely operate surgical robots to transfer patients to another location. can work on. Guiding surgeons through virtual presence in the operation theatre. “Both of these require high-speed internet with low latency, which 5G will enable. In the coming decade, we can expect thousands of remote surgeries where Indian dentists and surgeons will treat their patients through remotely operated surgical robots,” said Ahmed.
• ‘Smart’ education: Anoop Raj, founder and CEO of Instaprep by 7Classes, told News18 that the main advantage of 5G is that the devices can very easily interconnect and communicate with each other without human interpretation, which is a smart classroom. Can help to create, also known as. Internet of Things (IoT). “The main advantage of 5G is AR and VR. These technologies can give better education to the students. 5G will enable schools and institutions to become hi-tech and reduce manpower involvement,” he said.
• How fast is 5G? 5G is the next telecommunications standard and will be the fastest network in the development of mobile broadband. It is believed to be about 10 times faster than 4G, providing peak data transfer speeds of over 20 gigabytes per second or over 100 megabytes per second.
• 5G more expensive than 4G in India?: While there is little or no information on how the 5G plan will cost in India, it is expected to be slightly higher than the current rates for 4G in the country, but not a significant jump in cost. India has some of the cheapest internet in the world, and that is not expected to change with the 5G rollout.
• Difference Between 5G and 4G: Compared to 4G, 5G is a more capable interface. While 4G offers speeds of up to 150mbps, 5G is capable of providing download speeds of up to 10Gbps, which is several times higher than 4G. 5G will also open up many possibilities in the artificial intelligence and machine learning space, as scientists will be able to program more and more data into their systems, resulting in quicker results and quicker solutions.

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