India is working toward developing its own 6G technology in order to launch it no later than 2023 or perhaps early 2024, according to Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
On ‘New Technology and the Green Economy: Two Trends Shaping a New India?’ Vaishnaw said that scientists and engineers working on the technology have already received the necessary permissions.
The 6G development has already begun. By the year 2024 or 2023, it will be apparent. He said we are heading in this direction.
We will have designed and built India-based telecom software for managing the networks, as well as telecom equipment and services that may be exported globally.
The minister said the government is not just focusing on the launch of the 6G technology and indigenous 5G technology. And it is also planning the development of core software for the technology to get ready by the third quarter of next year.
He added that the 5G spectrum auctions are also expected to take place in the second quarter of 2022.
TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has been mentioned as a source for 5G spectrum sales. They’ve already begun the consultation process.
The procedure should be completed between February and March in the near future. And then the auction process will begin in Q2 of the calendar year 2022.
The Cabinet has approved a package of nine structural and operational changes to address short-term liquidity requirements as well as long-term concerns in the telecom industry earlier this year.
The government had given the telcos the option to suspend payments of deferred spectrum and AGD dues for four years as part of these changes. Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have opted for a four-year moratorium.