Onus on you to find 5G viability: Govt to telecom service providers

The government has communicated to telecommunications (telecom) service providers (TSPs) that they need to figure out the viability of 5G services and products being deployed, and that the high cost of new infrastructure cannot be used as an excuse to seek lower government levies, informed officials.

Earlier this month, telecom companies (telcos) raised the demand for lower government levies at a meeting.

“The companies had pointed out that while industry use-cases and business models were constantly being developed, finding ways to optimally commercialise the majority of 5G assets being created would take time,” said an industry insider aware of the developments.