Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio has urged the central authorities to utterly shut down 2G and 3G networks within the nation to keep away from pointless prices and migrate all clients to 4G and 5G networks. Jio’s feedback got here in response to a session paper titled ‘Digital Transformation via 5G Ecosystem’ printed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Whereas strongly urging for the shutdown of 2G and 3G companies within the nation, Jio famous, “The Authorities ought to come out with a coverage and glidepath for closing down the 2G and 3G networks utterly in order that pointless community prices must be prevented, and all clients might be migrated to 4G and 5G companies. This may even give nice impetus to creating ecosystem to 5G use instances.”
“There isn’t a doubt that the 5G companies, its ecosystem and use instances will play most vital function in driving digital transformation throughout varied industries by offering quicker and extra dependable connectivity. 5G with its quicker knowledge speeds, elevated bandwidth, and decrease latency, will present companies and innovators with the connectivity and capabilities that may give wings to their goals,” the telecom operator added.
In the meantime, Vodafone Concept additionally commented in regards to the subject in its reply to TRAI in the identical consulting paper. VI famous that penetration of 5G within the low-income teams is a giant problem owing to the abundance of 2G/3G enabled smartphones within the nation and excessive prices of 5G telephones.
“A considerable a part of the residents within the nation are typically utilizing older know-how i.e. 2G and aren’t capable of entry the brand new era know-how i.e. 4G and 5G regardless of availability of connectivity. The lack of customers to modify to smartphones on account of the price of these gadgets, additionally results in the customers persevering with on older know-how and therefore, not utilizing digital companies and most certainly ending up being not up to date on newest digital applied sciences and companies.”
The telecom operator has urged that the federal government ought to begin offering subsidies for folks to surrender their characteristic telephones and begin utilizing 5G-enabled smartphones which is able to assist bridge the digital divide within the nation.
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Revealed: 30 Jan 2024, 09:17 AM IST
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