IMC 2019: 5G gets another push but wait only gets longer

New Delhi: Giving India’s 5G dreams another push, several tech giants on Monday demonstrated potential power of 5G with live use cases on the inaugural day of the “India Mobile Congress 2019” here. A joint KPMG in India-IMC-COAI report, however, claimed that 5G is most likely to see widespread adoption only by 2025 in the country and till then, over 600 million broadband subscribers will have to manage with existing networks.

Leading the pack, Huawei announced the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based “Massive MIMO optimization technology” in the Vodafone Idea network — a first in India.Massive MIMO leverages 5G technologies in 4G network.

The “Massive MIMO AI” solution uses random algorithm for modelling and prediction, collecting and analyzing data to optimize MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) performance.