Auctioning of 5G spectrum in June
By MYBRANDBOOK
The government will hold 5G spectrum auctioning in June 2019 and the first commercial network on the next generation technology will be rolled out by next year in the country, Aruna Sundararajan , Telecom secretary and chairman telecom commission said.
The government will hold 5G spectrum , the first commercial network on the next generation technology will be rolled out by next year in the country. Addressing media persons at the Indian Telephone Industries’s (ITI) manufacturing unit in Kanjikode , she said the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has given its recommendations for the spectrum auction.
“It will be a unique project and our plan is to develop 5G capabilities on our own without importing them like we did with the previous spectrums. In fact, we have even started working on the development of 6G spectrum,” she said.
“ITI has tied up with 13 start-up companies in Bengaluru for design and manufacturing of the 5G chips. We will make the ITI units the hubs for research and development. The ITI has also signed a memorandum of understanding with IITs to develop new technologies and update the existing ones,” the secretary said.
She said the ITI, which was started in 1948, made a profit of Rs 102 crore after 16 years and now all its six units at Bengaluru, Rae Bareli, Mankapur, Naini, Palakkad and Srinagar are making profit. The Palakkad unit, which has been running well for the past 23 years, made a profit of Rs 45 crore in the past fiscal. The ITI boasts of an all-time high order book of Rs 15,000 crore and it is expected to reach Rs 25,000 crore by 2020. In the same occasion K Aalagesan, Chairman and MD of ITI and R M Agarwal, director (Marketing) were also present in the occasion.
BREAKING NEWS
TECHNO TRENDS
BHIM to join e-commerce, competing with PhonePe and Google Pay
The government-supported payment software BHIM is getting ready to join t...
The latest version of X helps prevent deepfakes on social medi
To combat deepfakes and shallowfakes, Elon Musk revealed a new update t...
India and Namibia collaborate on a payment system similar to U
Once operational, the platform will enable digital transactions in Namibia,...
Sebi issues show-cause notices to six Adani group firms
Sebi issued show-cause notices to six Adani Group firms, including Adani ...
E-Magazine
TECHNOTAINMENT
Airtel Xstream Play strengthens regional content library, part
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), one of India’s leading telecommunications
ED attaches Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty’s Rs 97 crore worth as
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized businessman Raj Kundra's pro
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Clover Infotech appointed Subham Banerjee as CDO
Clover Infotech has announced the appointment of Subham Banerjee as its Ch
Saviynt ropes in Sanjeevi Kumar as new Sales Director in India
The cloud-native identity and governance platform solutions provider Saviy
OPEN YOUR EYES
INTERVIEWS
Forcepoint positions itself as a trusted protector of sensitiv
To help SMEs and SMBs use the SASE/SSE framework and scale both in terms of
A few changes in policies can make the PLI scheme even more ef
The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme is a government initiative tha
HOT PICK
COLORFUL rolls out an array of gaming laptops
COLORFUL launched its incredible series of COLORFUL EVOL P15 gaming laptop
Dell Technologies launches new AI-powered commercial PC portfo
Dell Technologies has launched the broadest portfolio of commercial AI lap
MAKE IN INDIA BRANDS
OPTIEMUS INFRACOM
BHARAT ELECTRONICS LTD.
AGGRESSIVE ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING SERVICES PVT. LTD.
INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
EMINENT CIO'S OF INDIA
ICONS OF INDIA
Technology Icons Of India 2023: Aalok Kumar
Aalok continues to lead the India business and further strengthen Indi...
Technology Icons Of India 2023: Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Infosys T...
Technology Icons Of India 2023: Rajiv Srivastava
Rajiv Srivastava is the Managing Director of Redington Group. With 35 ...
PARTNER SPEAKERS
PSU
GeM maintains transparency in online procurement of goods & services
Created in a record time of five months, Government eMarketplace is a ...
Aadhaar: Architecting the World's Largest Biometric Identity System
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory au...
PGCIL transforming India with its wide power transmission network
Engaged in power transmission, POWERGRID or PGCIL is a stated owned In...
VIDEOS
Top 25 Brands
Value-Added Distribution
B D SOFTWARE
BD Software is the distributor of IT security solutions in India. The ...
WPG C&C COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS PVT. LTD.
WPG C&C Computers & Peripherals (India) was incorporated in 2008 and ...
INGRAM MICRO INDIA PVT. LTD.
Ingram Micro India, a large national distributor offers a comprehensiv...
ITFORUM 2024
WIITF 2024
CMO of the Year
WOMEN LEADERSHIP
EMINENT CIO's OF INDIA
TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY
MORE VIDEOS
ADVERTISEMENTS
TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTION
UNICORNS REVOLUTIONISING
