Speaking at India Mobile Congress 2018 Friday, Oommen said the 5G<\/a> ecosystem in the country will be ready by 2019-20 but affordable devices for its mass adoption will start coming in India in 2021.
“The 5G ecosystem will be available sometime in 2019-2020. We in India need to take 5G to every part of India. For that, 2021 is when we will have devices that will be affordable. 5G as a technology impact is not just in telecom but it is across, reshaping every single industry<\/a>,” Oommen said.
He however said operators need to be incentivised to expand their fibre networks, which, compounded with rational pricing of spectrum, will help in faster deployment of 5G services in India.
“All operators need to be incentivised to build deeper fibre with redundancy of routes. We can not follow the 2G experience,” Oommen said.
He said the affordable, ultrabroadband needs to reach homes, micro business in order to achieve digital transformation. He said despite “rapid acceleration” of internet adoption, there are just 450 million broadband users in India and one needs to reach out to the next 400 million and beyond.
Oommen’s presentation said “India needs a spectrum auction now... but rational pricing is required for operators to ensure expedited deployment”. Later, he told ET<\/strong> while the industry definitely needs the 5G spectrum, he would not be commenting on the timeline.
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