India unprepared for rolling out 5G services: Parliamentary Panel report on IT

NEW DELHI: A report by the Parliamentary Panel on IT has said that India is currently unprepared for rolling out the latest 5G telecom services, blaming the government’s lackluster approach to the launch of the technology, Hindustan Times reported.

This comes shortly after Sunil Mittal-led Airtel’s demonstration of 5G services in Hyderabad on a commercial network using its liberalized 1800MHz spectrum through Non-Standalone (NSA) network technology.

The government’s projection of getting almost Rs 54,000 crore ($7.4 billion) in revenue from the telecom sector in FY22 does not include proceeds from a 5G spectrum auction because no decision has been taken on holding such a sale, ET recently reported.