5G critical to India’s social, infrastructural needs

In an interview with CNBC-TV18, former Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar said that 5G services could become essential for India to meet critical social and infrastructure needs, while raising concerns about the availability enough capital to roll out the service.

Chandrashekhar said, “We need to bear in mind that given India’s economy, 5G services could become critical for meeting important social sector and economic sector needs, whether it is healthcare or education or skilling in areas like that.”

“It would be rather unfortunate if telecom companies limit their rollout, because of financial constraints and not because of lack of the business case,” he said, referring to the necessary investments. CNBC-TV18