The government will fund a pilot project of state-owned firms BSNL and ITI along with startups for developing indigenous technology for 4G, 5G and E- band spectrum services.
The project will also see the involvement of Government’s telecom research organisation C-DoT, which has played a key role in developing first made-in-India 4G and 5G telecom network technology in collaboration with TCS-Tejas Networks.
“Department of Telecommunications (USOF), ministry of communications, has signed an agreement with Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Limited and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to fund the pilot projects of E-band, LTE indigenous technologies including integration of 4G/5G prototypes with C-DoT core,” an official statement said.
The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), under its programme for induction of new technological developments in the telecom sector in rural and remote areas, is funding four pilot projects each of around Rs 10 crore enabling the development and hardening of these technologies.
The statement further said that indigenous companies Astrome Technologies, Lekha Wireless Solutions, Resonous Technologies and Signaltron would be executing these projects in partnership with C-DoT and DoT public sector units BSNL and ITI.
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