Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 5G services in India during the inauguration of the Indian Mobile Congress in Delhi on Saturday morning and the Indian Army is planning to use the connectivity to boost frontline troops' communication services.
According to sources in the defence establishment, these services will be essential in a tactical battlefield area. The Army was the lead service when a joint services study was recently conducted on the implementation of 5G in the armed forces, they said.
The study has been completed and its recommendations are being studied by the three services — Army, Navy, and Air Force, they noted. The Indian Army will exploit 5G to support operations in tactical battlefield areas, they said.
The high bandwidth and low latency of 5G are better suited for critical communication services for front-line troops, they added. On August 1, India's biggest ever auction of telecom spectrum — 5G received a record Rs 1.5 trillion of bids, with Mukesh Ambani's Jio cornering nearly half of all the airwaves sold with an Rs 88,078 crore bid.
(Edited by : Sangam Singh)
First Published: Aug 6, 2022 4:26 PM IST
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