Telcos meet parliamentary panel, urge 5G spectrum in multiple bands

Kolkata: Telecom companies underlined in a joint meeting with the parliamentary standing committee on IT on Tuesday that the government should make 5G spectrum available across multiple bands, including premium millimetre waves, at affordable prices for boosting India’s readiness to deploy the next generation mobile broadband technology.

Separately, the parliamentary panel, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, sought clarity from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on whether the government had actually banned Chinese telecom vendors, Huawei and ZTE from participating in 5G network contracts.