An indigenous 5G test bed has been established at a cost of Rs 224 crore for experimenting and demonstrating 5G products, applications and use cases, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
Many 5G products are being developed by the Centre for Development of Telematics (CDoT) and Indian startups, in line with policy initiatives of the government through flagship programmes and schemes for telecom products, Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
The 5G technology offers benefits, such as high speed, low latency, high connection density and greater reliability.
“Also, an indigenous 5G test bed has been set up at a total cost of Rs 224 crore to facilitate for experimenting and demonstrating 5G products/ applications/ use cases,” the minister said.
As many as 31 companies have been selected under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the manufacturing of telecom products.
“With the objective to build a strong ecosystem for 5G, the scheme guidelines for PLI scheme have been amended to facilitate design-led manufacturing of 5G products in the country,” Chauhan said.
The 5G spectrum auction saw “enthusiastic participation” of the industry and 71 per cent of the total spectrum put up, has been sold.
The total bid amount for the spectrum for which rights were acquired by successful bidders stood at Rs 1,50,173 crore.
Nearly 72097.85 MHz of spectrum with a validity period of 20 years has been put to auction.