600,000 villages to have mobile communications and OFC by 2025

Indian telecommunications network, is the second largest in the world, with the most cost-effective rates. This growth has been spurred, by the market friendly policies of the Modi Government, said Devusinh Chauhan, Minister of State for Communications while elaborating upon the success story of growth of telecom sector in India.

“India is likely to see its own indigenously developed and manufactured 5G stack getting deployed in rolling out 5G networks in India.

The indigenously developed set of 5G standards, called 5Gi, has been approved by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and 3GPP, and made part of the global 5G standards.

Our engineers have developed a set of 5G standards which will facilitate the spread of 5G networks in rural areas. These standards have been approved by the ITU and 3GPP and made part of 5G standards.

175,000 villages are now provided with optical fiber, while 560,000 villages have 4G connectivity. The government has also outlined a multi-billion dollar comprehensive plan to ensure optical fiber and mobile communications in all 600,000 villages by 2025,” added Chauhan.

The minister was addressing the inaugural event of International Telecommunication Union’s Regional Standardization Forum (RSF) for Asia and Oceania region. The event was inaugurated by him.

As a part of the celebrations during Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of Communication is hosting the event.

Several dignitaries including K. Rajaraman, Secretary (T), Government of India, Manish Sinha, Member (Finance), Digital Communications Communication (DCC), Government of India, V.L. Kantha Rao, Additional Secretary (T), Government of India along with Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of Study Groups Department, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Ms. Atsuko Okuda, Regional Director, ITU Regional Office for Asia and Pacific attended the event. The theme of Regional Standardization Forum (RSF) is Regulatory and Policy aspects of Telecommunications/ICTs.

It will be succeeded by four-day meeting of International Telecommunication Union-T Study Group 3 Regional Group Asia and Oceania (ITU-T SG3RG-AO) from 09th August 2022 to 12th August 2022.

CT Bureau