\"Enterprises or system integrators should not put up private 5G networks as it will be counter-productive, and bring inefficiencies,\" SP Kochhar, director general, Cellular Operators Association of India (Coai<\/a>) said, adding that captive networks deployed by telecom carriers would be cost-effective.
Coai represents Reliance Jio<\/a> and Bharti Airtel<\/a> as well as Vodafone Idea<\/a> which is yet to kickstart consumer 5G services.
Nearly five IT biggies applied for private 5G network across more than 20 locations. These include Tata Consultancy Services<\/a>, Infosys, Wipro, L&T and Capgemini, following the telecom department's (DoT<\/a>) guidelines last year.
Meanwhile, following the legal view and lukewarm response from companies, the government is not keen to allocate spectrum separately for captive use.
In April 2022, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai<\/a>) recommended multiple options for setting up a captive wireless network for non-public use that includes a direct radiowaves allocation and leasing out spectrum from a telecom carrier.
Telecom carriers see captive networks as an opportunity to augment their enterprise business, and argue that direct spectrum allocation for such networks would hamper the business case for them.
\"RF (radio frequency) can't be locked inside or segregated from an outside network. By putting it in a campus, enterprises will become mini TSP (telecom service provider), and despite not having expertise, have to buy equipment, install, operate, utilise and maintain the network which is a totally different line of business,\" Kochhar said, adding that for RF planning, companies have to anyway turn to telcos.
Telecommunications is a capital-intensive sector, and even if an enterprise deploys it by putting in capital expenditure, they have no experience running a wireless network, according to the industry group.
5G cellular technology coupled with network slicing and edge computing have enabled cost-effective wireless private networks that offer software-backed controls, operations and remote monitoring capabilities to enterprises.
Further Kochhar said that a private network set up by a non-telco company would lead to inefficiencies since a numbering scheme as per existing norms, would be different from outside, and enterprise users have to buy a seperate phone or device.
Telecom operators have expertise and since they will be committing to optimum service-level agreements, and a deployment through them would be cost-effective as enterprises could only be paying for operational expenses (opex), the executive added.
(With inputs from Mansi Taneja)<\/em>
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