Industry experts laud PM Modi’s 5G roadmap, thrust on mobile manufacturing

Prime Minister Modi dedicated an indigenous 5G test bed, in the form of 5Gi, to the nation during an event organized by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

PGurus Newsdesk

May 17, 2022

Prime Minister Modi dedicated an indigenous 5G test bed, in the form of 5Gi, to the nation during an event organized by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

PM Modi dedicated an indigenous 5G test bed in the form of 5Gi to the nation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to launch the self-made 5G test bed has been hailed by many industry experts. The experts lauded the move saying that the transformative power of 5G will provide a significant thrust to the country’s economic growth across industries and sectors.

Experts said that the next challenge is to drive true local value addition.

Prime Minister Modi dedicated an indigenous 5G test bed, in the form of 5Gi, to the nation during an event organized by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

Prabhu Ram, Head-Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CMR, said, “The launch of India’s first 5G test bed will spur an ecosystem centered around innovation in next-gen technologies. The start-ups will now be able to test and validate their technological prototypes, products, and solutions locally in a 5G network.”

PM Modi said that the 5G technology will facilitate governance and make a positive change in ease of doing business in many fields, creating more jobs in many sectors. PM Modi said that the 2G era was full of frustration, corruption, and policy paralysis.

According to Tarun Pathak, Research Director, Counterpoint Research, it proves that Indigenisation is possible in an emerging and latest tech like 5G.

“This should give a boost to local talent and further support and strengthen India’s image in emerging technologies which will be built on a strong 5G ecosystem,” Pathak said.

“After that, we came to 3G, 4G and now we are testing the 5G technology, developed by the Communication Ministry, Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai and Delhi,” the Prime Minister said.

Arvind Bali, the CEO, of the Telecom Sector Skill Council, said that for adopting new tech and infrastructure, skilling along with reskilling/ upskilling of the workforce will ensure that the human resource requirement is sufficient when 5G services are live.

“We, along with all stakeholders, are already driving training of the workforce in new-age technologies and have developed NSQF-aligned courses with unified credit framework on 5G technology that will be recognized in universities and institutions to meet this huge upcoming demand in trained talent force when the time comes,” said Bali.

Giving a thrust on domestic manufacturing, Modi also said that mobile manufacturing units have increased from just two in 2014 to more than 200 in the country.

“This will be driven by a strong regulatory and policy environment and performance-linked incentive (PLI) scheme. India currently has local value addition of around 15 percent in mobile and we need to more than double the same to generate more push,” said Pathak.

Ram added that mobile manufacturing in India has been an impressive success story of the ‘Make in India‘ mission.

“Mobile production in India today caters to not just a growing domestic digital economy, but also to developed markets around the world. With enhanced value addition taking place domestically, India is now slowly becoming an integral part of the global value chains,” Ram said.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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