India now possesses 127 patents for 6G,” says Communications Minister Vaishnaw. He also underscored the comment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stressing that India’s capabilities to acquire confidence and operate at a global scale are generating a boom in demand for locally manufactured telecoms equipment in international nations.
On Wednesday, Government Minister for Communications, Ashwini Vaishnaw, stated that India has obtained more than 127 worldwide patents for 6G technology. He also underscored the comment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stressing that India’s capabilities to acquire confidence and operate at a global scale are generating a boom in demand for locally manufactured telecoms equipment in international nations.
According to Vaishnaw, the Prime Minister has set a goal for his ministry to be at the forefront of the world in 5G technology and to take the lead in creating 6G technology.
The Prime Minister unveiled the government’s 6G vision statement earlier in the meeting. As indicated in the Department of Telecom’s vision paper, whereas 5G technology is predicted to give speeds ranging from 40 to 1,100 Mbps, 6G is projected to provide ultra-low latency and speeds up to 1 terabit per second, which is 1,000 times faster than the highest speed of 5G.
Vaishnaw also promised to provide substantially cheap 5G testing services to all the adjacent nations who were present at the conference.
“I beg our secretary to provide the substantially inexpensive 5g testing services to all the nations present. We’ll all grow together. We’ll all make sure that our area contributes to the globe,” he stated.
Delegates from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka were present in the conclave. Vaishnaw emphasized India’s extensive ecosystems of engineering expertise, research and development, and academic skill.
“Bringing all that together, to be able to make things, that was one enormous challenge that India tackled approximately seven-eight years ago. During a relatively short space of around eight years, now we are in a situation where India is confidently producing goods and technology and tackling ever larger challenges,” he remarked.
According to the minister, India’s burgeoning digital economy demands a different regulatory strategy compared to conventional economies. He also stressed that telecom and data privacy are cross-cutting concerns, and as such, the government has elected to design policies that are technology neutral.
“We are reworking our rules for the digital economy. Our objective is to make sure that the horizontals (matters that span across sectors) are technology neutral. They are energetic. They are capable of evolving with the changing technology,” Vaishnaw stated.
The minister added that the next measures, such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill and the new Telecommunications Bill, would be principle-based rather than prescriptive. Also, the minister, together with the Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan, launched the India Telecom expo, where roughly 20 firms with local manufacturing skills are displaying their solutions.
Representatives from a total of 30 nations, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Mauritius, the US, Russia, and others, participated in the event.
