House Panel Calls Meet on 5G Preparedness

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT has called a meeting of top telecom companies as well as the department of telecom and regulator TRAI to understand India’s preparedness for 5G mobile technology.

Protocols regarding 5G rollout are already delayed, and so are the on-ground used-case testing that was to begin last year. The government has already hinted that Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE will not be called for 5G testing, although there is still no clarity on whether they will be allowed when final rollout happens. The Parliamentary standing committee will hear representatives from Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea on Tuesday as part of the agenda ‘India’s preparedness for 5G’.

After this, officials from DoT and TRAI will brief them on the matter.