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<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT<\/a>) Monday said the department will offer the indigenous 5G testbed<\/a> free of cost to government recognised startups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs<\/a>) up till January 2024.

Prior to this, the indigenous
5G<\/a> testbed was available free of cost to government-recognised startups and MSMEs<\/a> up till January 2023.

“All
5G<\/a> stakeholders i.e. industry, academia, service providers, R&D institutions, govt. bodies, equipment manufacturers etc. can utilise this facility at a very nominal rate,” the Ministry of Communication said.

The move is expected to encourage the use of the testbed and give a fillip to the development of indigenous technologies\/products in line with ‘
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a>’ vision, the statement added Several start-ups and companies are already using the Test Bed for testing their products and services.

In March, 2018, keeping in view India’s specific requirements and to take lead in 5G deployment, the telecom department had approved financial grant for the multi-institute collaborative project to set up ‘
Indigenous 5G Test Bed<\/a>’ in the country with total cost of Rs.224 crore.

The eight collaborating institutes in the project were
IIT<\/a> (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, IIT<\/a> Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (SAMEER<\/a>) and Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT<\/a>).

The
5G testbed<\/a> is available at five locations: Integrated Test Bed at CEWiT\/ IIT Madras and other Test Beds are at IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur and IISc Bangalore. CEWiT\/ IIT Madras offers end-to-end testbed with various testing services for RAN Level, PHY Level, andf others, and other test equipment. IIT Hyderabad has facilities for gNB Testing, UE Testing, end-to-end interoperability testing and NB-IoT testing, while IISC Bangalore hosts the V2X and 5G open-source testbed, IIT Kanpur hosts the base-band Test Bed and IIT Delhi hosts the NB-IoT and VLC Test Bed.

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Identify 6 GHz band spectrum for 5G expansion, lower network deployment cost: GSMA<\/a><\/h2>

The letter comes ahead of the ITU-led World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 2023 to be held in Dubai later this year. GSMA also sought India's support for the band at international forums such as Asia Pacific Telecommunity Group and WRC 2023.<\/p><\/div>

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<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT<\/a>) Monday said the department will offer the indigenous 5G testbed<\/a> free of cost to government recognised startups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs<\/a>) up till January 2024.

Prior to this, the indigenous
5G<\/a> testbed was available free of cost to government-recognised startups and MSMEs<\/a> up till January 2023.

“All
5G<\/a> stakeholders i.e. industry, academia, service providers, R&D institutions, govt. bodies, equipment manufacturers etc. can utilise this facility at a very nominal rate,” the Ministry of Communication said.

The move is expected to encourage the use of the testbed and give a fillip to the development of indigenous technologies\/products in line with ‘
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a>’ vision, the statement added Several start-ups and companies are already using the Test Bed for testing their products and services.

In March, 2018, keeping in view India’s specific requirements and to take lead in 5G deployment, the telecom department had approved financial grant for the multi-institute collaborative project to set up ‘
Indigenous 5G Test Bed<\/a>’ in the country with total cost of Rs.224 crore.

The eight collaborating institutes in the project were
IIT<\/a> (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, IIT<\/a> Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (SAMEER<\/a>) and Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT<\/a>).

The
5G testbed<\/a> is available at five locations: Integrated Test Bed at CEWiT\/ IIT Madras and other Test Beds are at IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur and IISc Bangalore. CEWiT\/ IIT Madras offers end-to-end testbed with various testing services for RAN Level, PHY Level, andf others, and other test equipment. IIT Hyderabad has facilities for gNB Testing, UE Testing, end-to-end interoperability testing and NB-IoT testing, while IISC Bangalore hosts the V2X and 5G open-source testbed, IIT Kanpur hosts the base-band Test Bed and IIT Delhi hosts the NB-IoT and VLC Test Bed.

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Identify 6 GHz band spectrum for 5G expansion, lower network deployment cost: GSMA<\/a><\/h2>

The letter comes ahead of the ITU-led World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 2023 to be held in Dubai later this year. GSMA also sought India's support for the band at international forums such as Asia Pacific Telecommunity Group and WRC 2023.<\/p><\/div>