Indian government’s Digital India initiative has helped India in taking steps toward new technology and 5G is the next step.
Highlights
- 5G technology is the next step in the right direction for India.
- 5G-enabled smartphones are already launching in India.
- Optical fibre is been the heart of infrastructure in India in recent years.
The Indian government’s initiative of Digital India is making waves as the use of optical fibre is spreading all across India. The Internet is getting faster and faster in India with the passing years.
The Internet is the key to the Digital India initiative. India is the fastest-growing market on the digital side. People are becoming internet-reliant day by day.
5G technology will make India on par with the rest of the world as they are also slowly but surely developing towards 5G technology.
Optical Fibre is the main ingredient in the development of digital infrastructure in India. It helps transfer data at a very high speed by transmitting light pulses through thin strands of fibre.
India has a very large number of internet users, actively India has 117 crore telecom users and 82 crore internet subscribers. India is developing towards self-reliance.
India’s initiative of Bharatnet Phase III, the biggest rural broadband project, is aiming towards providing internet connectivity to all the villages and small towns in India. This initiative will lead India to spread optical fibre all across India.
In the last few years, India has been investing domestically in the digital industry. An estimated Rs 5000 crore has been spent in the last 10 years domestically in this industry.
India is manufacturing optical fibre at a rate of around 1000 million fibre km and the domestic consumption is around 46 million fibre km.
The demand for optical fibre will increase in the coming years as network providers are converting toward optical fibre. Around 30% of mobile towers use optical fibre but it is said it will increase to 80% in a few years.
Now, India needs to invest in R&D and study the process and scheme to be provided to the end-users and the internet provider soon.
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