COAI welcomes Telecom Department s nod to 5G Technology and Spectrum Trials ANI | Updated: May 04, 2021 23:31 IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Tuesday welcomed the Department of Telecom (DoT) decision to approve the applications of telecom service providers (TSPs) for conducting 5G trials.
Director-General of COAI, Lieutenant General Dr SP Kochhar in a statement said the move will stimulate local research and development (R and D) ecosystem. We welcome the government s decision to start exhaustive 5G trials in different categories of locations across India. It will stimulate the local R and D ecosystem to develop innovative applications tailored to commercial needs. It will enable TSPs to validate 5G technologies and use cases such as IoT and Industry 4.0. We hope the Govt. will also look into the industry s call for revisiting the 5G spectrum pricing, said Dr Kochhar.
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TSPs tied up with OEMs Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, C-DOT.
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TSPs will have to conduct trials in rural and semi-urban settings also in addition to urban settings so that the benefit of 5G technology proliferates across the country | Photo Credit:
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TSPs tied up with OEMs Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, C-DOT.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday gave permission to Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) to conduct trials for the use and application of 5G technology.
This formally leaves out Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE from the 5G race in India.
“The applicant TSPs include Bharti Airtel Ltd., Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd., Vodafone Idea Ltd. and MTNL. These TSPs have tied up with original equipment manufacturers and technology providers which are Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and C-DOT,” a statement from the Ministry of Communications said. In addition, Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd. will also be conducting trials using its own indig
Vodafone Idea have together invested as much as Rs 9,000 crores in network infrastructure expansion during the year, following the contagious Coronavirus pandemic. Nearly Rs 9,000 crores has been spent by telecom service providers in putting telecom sites and laying optic fibre cable since last one year, SP Kochhar, director-general, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) told ETTelecom, adding that the industry is fully prepared to serve the evolving needs of customers and ensure highest possible network uptime.
Delhi-based telecom group represents incumbent operators as well as multinational technology vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco and Juniper.
Kochhar further said that telecom operators have also acquired additional spectrum in the recently-concluded auction, and the deployment of the new or additional spectrum would further enhance network capacity.
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Telecom companies are now issuing a public advisory.
COAI further warned all telecom users and urged them not to click on any malicious links.
The industry body further urged users to break the chain.
A fake message doing rounds on social media offering free internet is likely to be a scam. To protect their users from falling into the trap, telecom companies are now issuing a public advisory, warning users that such messages promising free recharge plans for online education floating on social media could possibly steal their personal data.
In a statement, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said, “It has been brought to our notice that fake messages are being circulated by people on social media platforms with fraudulent intentions.”