Army issues RFI to install 4G or 5G network close to LAC

The defence ministry has moved in to fill the absence of telephone connectivity in areas near China border by issuing a request for info (RFI) to obtain 4G or 5G based mostly cellular mobile communication community in excessive altitudes.

The Military intends to put in the community in a 12 months’s time from the day contract is awarded to an organization.

The 4G or 5G based mostly cellular mobile communication is required for subject formations of the military deployed in mountainous, semi mountainous and excessive altitude area as much as vary of 18,000 ft, stated the RFI which is a prerequisite to precise tendering of the undertaking. “The community is envisaged to supply dependable and safe voice, messaging and information companies in supposed space of protection to help operational necessities of subject formation,” stated the Military .

The RFI clearly specifies that the communication between person gear or handset could be based mostly on ”business AES 256-bit encryption or higher”. Additionally, the military’s demand is that the handset must be pleasant to port utility for layer of secrecy. The answer should be sure that the community is inaccessible to any unauthorised and illegitimate person or by means of another radio entry expertise community, insists the RFI.

The response to the RFI ought to embody plans to fulfill tips as per DAP 2020, and specify the provision of community system in addition to gear in home market. The final villages, together with Phobrang, in East Ladakh, has no cellular community, native politician Konchok Stanzin tweeted on Sunday. “How a lot time ought to we wait to get fundamental amenities like 4G and 24×7 gentle in distant and border areas of Chushul constituency?” he requested. That is even supposing China’s cellular connectivity is on the market on the Indian aspect of LAC. Job Plan