5G telecommunication services are scheduled to start in select cities of India in 2022. The cities which are set to get 5G telecom services in 2022 include Gurugram, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jamnagar, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad. , Lucknow, Pune and Gandhinagar.
Leading Telecom Service Provider Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio And Vodafone Ideahas set up 5G trial sites in these cities. “These metros and major cities will be the first places to launch 5G services in the country next year,” the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said on Monday.
The latest upgrade to 5G is Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network. Whereas 4G A huge leap forward in allowing people to stream music and video on the go, 5G is designed to connect many more types of devices than smartphones and offers higher speeds and capabilities.
Apart from leading telecom operators and smartphone makers, the government is also actively involved in facilitating the rollout of 5G services. DoT has tied up with leading research institutes to develop and test 5G technology.
Eight agencies – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bengaluru, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) and Center of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWIT) – is involved in a research project named ‘Indigenous 5G Test Bed Project’.
The indigenous 5G test bed project started in 2018 and is scheduled to be completed by December 31, 2021. The project is funded by the Department of Telecommunications. The department has spent Rs 224 crore on this project.
“At a cost of Rs 224 crore, the project is likely to be completed by December 31, 2021, for end-to-end development of 5G User Devices (UE) and network equipment by 5G stakeholders developing 5G products/services/use cases. End trial, including indigenous start-ups, SMEs, academia and industry in the country,” the Department of Telecom said.
Indigenous 5G test beds, a visionary technology development project undertaken in the telecom sector, develop, test and disseminate 5G technology system components, cross-sectoral use cases, besides setting the foundation for the development of the “6G technology landscape” in India. will enable country, it added.
Earlier this month, Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman had expressed hope that the 5G test bed would be rolled out by early January. Rajaraman said at the India Mobile Congress on December 9, “We hope to roll out this 5G test bed by early January, which will allow SMEs and other segments of the industry to come to a working platform and test their solutions. will enable it.”
Test bed refers to creating a specific environment for testing products or services. This includes hardware, software, operating system, and network configuration.
As the trials are in the final stages, the allocation of spectrum will be crucial in deciding the fate of the commercial launch of 5G in the country. The DoT has allotted spectrum to Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and MTNL for 5G trials. ericsson, Nokia, samsung And Mavenir also engaged in the tests.
In September 2021, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) sent a reference to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), seeking recommendations for auctioning the identified spectrum for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)/5G with respect to the reserve price, band She was Scheme, block size, quantum of spectrum to be auctioned and auction terms in 526-698 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz, 3300-3670 MHz and 24.25. -28.5 GHz band 5G for public as well as private 5G networks, to meet the spectrum requirements of captive 5G applications of the industry (Industry 4.0).
“The process of assigning frequency to TSP will be initiated at the earliest,” the DoT said.
5G mainly works in 3 bands, low, mid and high-frequency spectrum. Speed is limited to 100 Mbps in the low band spectrum. Mid-band spectrum, on the other hand, offers higher speeds than the lower bands, but has limitations in terms of coverage area and signal penetration. Internet speed goes up to 20 Gbps in the high-band spectrum. The highest internet speed recorded in 4G is 1 Gbps.
While 4G networks are mostly designed for phones, 5G networks are designed for more flexible use, replacing the need for multiple special-purpose networks. They can also function as several different networks at the same time.
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