5G will enable a range of new & stunning video applications

India should be entering the world of 5G sometime next year, if spectrum allocations happen soon. Some parts of the ecosystem are rapidly getting ready. Devices are among them. There are already a number of 5Gready handsets in the market. And Tarun Pathak, research director at Counterpoint Research, estimates that by the time the first 5G network is launched in India, there would be 30-40 million such handsets.

This readiness is because of the work that smartphone chip makers and handset makers have together put in. A lot of work continues to happen on that front, and that was the subject of the Times Techies webinar last week in association with the world’s largest smartphone chipset maker MediaTek.