#5GCongress 2021: 5G launch in mmWave band to deliver $150 billion of additional GDP for India: GSMA

NEW DELHI: India could additionally have as much as $150 billion GDP if telecom carriers are allowed to rollout next-generation or 5G services in the high frequencies or millimeter wave band, a senior executive of the London-based GSMA said.

“We estimate that millimeter wave enabled 5G will deliver $150 billion in additional GDP for India,” Laurent Bodusseau, senior director – Spectrum & Regulatory Affairs at GSMA said, adding that the multinational body expects the benefits to be impressively high following the millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum allocation to operators to enable 5G services over the period 2025 to 2040.

Bodusseau was speaking at the 5G Congress – 2021, organised by ETTelecom.