| Introduction: Explain India’s 6G vision. Body: Explain the rationale behind the early approach towards 6G. Conclusion: Write a way forward. |
Vision Document promotes to roll out high-speed 6G Communication Services by 2030 and also launched Bharat 6G Project to identify and fund research and deployment of the next-generation technology in India. Bharat 6G Vision Document enables India to become a leading global supplier of intellectual property, products and solutions of affordable 6G telecom solutions and identify priority areas for 6G research based on India’s competitive advantages.
The project will be implemented in two phases, the first one from 2023 to 2025 and the second one from 2025 to 2030. In the first phase, it will provide support to explore new ideas and pathways. With the government’s support, these ideas will then be used to develop use cases, intellectual properties (IPs) and testbeds. In the second phase, these IPs, prototypes and testbeds will be commercialized.
Rationale behind the early approach towards 6G:
- Assuming Leadership:The government wants to increase India’s dominance in wireless data usage and it will be done through encouraging local manufacturing of telecom, supporting Indian companies and engineers in international discussions around standardization.
- Avoiding Delays:The government doesn’t want to delay or stay behind the other countries in rolling out 6G as it did in 5G. For instance, 5G came in India years after countries like South Korea and the United States started using it.
- Addressing the Demand: with the advent of 5G and 6G technologies, lower frequencies in 4G networks may not be able to match the demand for traffic.
- Developing R&D:The government wants to support research in the field of 6G technologies. It will be done through leveraging talent in academia and companies.
- Achieve connectivity goals: 6G technology will help the government in achieving connectivity goals. For instance,ensuring that every person has access to a minimum of 100 Mbps of broadband, giving every gram panchayat access to half a terabit per second of connectivity, and installing over 50 million internet devices across the nation—13 per square kilometer.
6G will make websites load faster, videos to look better, and files to download faster than the 5G technology. However, businesses and governments are still figuring out how to best use 5G technology.
