Telcos’ argument about private 5G networks ‘absurd and illogical’: BIF

Industry body Broadband India Forum on Tuesday termed telcos’ arguments on a level playing field between public and captive private 5G networks as “absurd and impractical”, and asserted that the two are separate sets of services on a completely different footing and not competing with each other.

The age-old and time-tested concept of ‘level playing field’ cannot apply in the case of captive private 5G networks, as they have several distinctive traits, which distinguish them from public networks, with whom they are being compared “without any logic or basis”, Broadband India Forum (BIF) said in a statement.