Prime Minister Narendra Modi On Saturday it launched 5G telephony services that promise to provide ultra-high-speed internet on mobile phones, saying it marks the beginning of a new era and presents an infinite sky of opportunities. Later this month, fifth generation or 5G services will roll out in at least 13 cities, with a target of nationwide coverage over the next two years.
launch of services India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2022, Modi said, is a special day for the world’s fifth largest economy.
“Today 130 crore Indians are getting it as a wonderful gift” 5G From the country and the telecom industry of the country,” he said, adding that 5G is the beginning of a new era. “5G is the beginning of an infinite sky of opportunities.”
With speeds and lag-free connectivity many times faster than 4G, 5G can enable billions of connected devices to share data in real time. It promises to revolutionize sectors ranging from healthcare and education to agriculture and disaster monitoring. 5G services will progressively cover the entire country over the next few years – Reliance Jio promises to do so by December 2023 and Bharti Airtel by March 2024.
Industry experts told News18 that the rollout of 5G services will have a tremendous impact on a range of sectors, from education to healthcare to gaming. “Healthcare and manufacturing, retail, education, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality and robotics in education are some of the use cases,” said Nishant Bansal, senior research manager at IDC Asia/Pacific.
Health care
Healthtrip.com founder Danish Ahmed told News18 that the 5G rollout could have a significant impact on medical tourism in India by enabling ‘tele-surgery’.
In tele-surgery, surgeons in one location can remotely operate surgical robots on patients in another location or guide surgeons through a virtual presence in the operating 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.
Neeraj Jha, Founder and CEO, Hanumancare said that 5G will revolutionize the ‘health technology’ sector. “We will see more real-time surgeries on a daily basis. There will be an increase in tele-radiology and tele-cardiology practices, as well as telemedicine and tele-surgery practices.
Jha said that tele-ICU for rural India is the need of the hour and all these surgeries will be done with the help of 5G due to increased bandwidth and low latency services.
education
This is another booming sector, which has seen the rise of many unicorns during the COVID-19 pandemic. And now industry leaders believe that the 5G launch will benefit the sector more.
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.
“Currently, only big companies like Google and YouTube are able to provide the infrastructure to stream high quality content because of their strong infrastructure. 5G will give new tech companies more opportunities to stream in real-time and create more affordable solutions for students,” Raj said.
Gambling
Surmount founder Neeraj Bora Business Advisors Pvt Ltd said that as the higher adoption of 3G and broadband-enabled video streaming and online gaming, 5G sectors will usher in mass adoption of high data consumption cases for various applications.
Netweb Technologies co-founder Sanjay Lodha said that “non-critical segments” such as gaming and the metaverse will benefit from 5G.
According to Roland Landers, CEO, All India Gaming Federation, 5G will definitely prove to be a game-changer for online gaming. “Low latency and high bandwidth will allow for immersive experiences for online multiplayer games across all platforms. 5G will be crucial for cloud gaming where even less-spec hardware and smartphones can run high-quality games. Similarly, it is the gaming industry will transform the AR/VR experience for
Soham Thakar, CEO and Founder, Gamerji, said that 5G will empower the growth that India has already seen in the gaming sector, by providing more opportunities for local publishers to offer high-end mobile games, which need faster speeds for competitive gaming. is needed. It will also increase the market for live streaming and live online content.
“5G is going to act as a catalyst for the unprecedented growth and progress of the already thriving gaming industry in India,” Parth Chadha, co-founder and CEO, STAN told News18.
Transforming India
Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India said that 5G will be a key driver for realizing the Digital India initiative and design opportunities in India, which will leverage disruptive technologies like AI, Cloud and others across the ecosystem.
“We expect India to become a major hub for state-of-the-art semiconductor R&D and design. The rollout of 5G services will accelerate the next wave of digital transformation. MediaTek congratulates the people of India and ushered in India towards self-reliance. I am extremely proud to be a part of this important milestone in our journey.
According to Devroop Dhar, co-founder of Primus Partners, along with education and healthcare, 5G will bring tremendous change in sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and construction.
“Technology like IoT will help farmers to understand the crop cycle and soil conditions in real time. With the advent of Agriculture 4.0 in India along with a boost of technology in this area, 5G will prove to be a game-changer in helping farmers, reducing their burden and improving the quality of work. ,
Sanjeev Barnwal, founder and CTO of e-commerce platform Meesho, said that such revolutionary technology will not only help digitize millions of small businesses in the country but will also accelerate the government’s goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025.
“As a tech-first e-commerce company, we are also excited to see its potential impact on the adoption of new innovations such as live/video commerce, especially in Tier 2+ markets,” he added.
read all latest tech news And today’s fresh news Here