Government Will Allot 5G Spectrum for Trial to All Players: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Dec. 30, 2019Union communications minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, has today said that the government will be conducting initial trials for5G technologyin the country, and will allot 5G spectrum for initial trials to all cellular operators in India.
Moreover, he added that operators will be free to choose their partner vendors from the likes of Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, and Huawei. The inclusion of Huawei in the list is a fairly big deal, considering the Chinese giant is currently under intense global scrutiny following aUS ban on Huawei equipmentstating that the company acts as asurveillance toolfor the Chinese government — an accusation Huawei hasrepeatedly and vehemently denied.
To showcase that it was acting in good faith, Huawei even offered to sign ano-backdoor agreement with the Indian government, and offered to share its source code with the country to alleviate fears of Chinese spying in Indian telecommunications. The company had also said that if it was banned from participating in India’s 5G evolution, the country’s 5G rollout would get delayed by 2-3 years.
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