India’s 5G launch in 2022 can finally be expected. This year witnessed many smartphone companies launching 5G phones in India. But buying a 5G mobile phone without 5G service is a rogue to consumers. However, this situation will soon change, because 5G will indeed start rolling out in the country in 2022. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has officially released this news. Thirteen cities across the country will receive 5G services in the initial stage, and the remaining cities will follow up soon. Check out the press release issued by DoT to see which 13 cities will be the first to get 5G in India.

These 13 cities will be the first to receive 5G services in India in 2022
The Ministry of Communications (DoT) issued a press release regarding the launch of 5G in India. “The project cost Rs 22.4 billion and is likely to be completed before December 31, 2021, paving the way for end-to-end testing of 5G (/topic/5g) user equipment (UE) and network equipment (/topic /5g) ) Stakeholders developing 5G (/topic/5g) products/services/use cases, including the country’s local start-ups, SMEs, academia and industry,” said DoT. According to the statement, the 13 cities that will be the first to provide 5G services in 2022 are Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Gandhinagar, Gulgram, Hyderabad, Jamnagar, Kolkata, Chennai , Lucknow, Pune, Delhi and Mumbai. Although the Ministry of Transportation has not officially confirmed which telecom operator will be the first to launch commercial 5G services in the country, we can expect that the three major telecom operators (Jio, Airtel, and Vi) will do their best to become the first country. All three have set up test sites in the above-mentioned cities.

In addition, DoT has also cooperated with eight institutions to carry out the local 5G test platform project that began in 2018, which will be completed on December 31. DoT also stated that it had sent a reference to TRAI in September 2021 to seek advice on 5G spectrum auctions, including reservation prices, frequency band plans, block sizes, the amount of spectrum to be auctioned, and auctions of various frequency bands (526-698 MHZ,700 MHZ, 800 MHZ, 900 MHZ, 1800 MHZ, 2100 MHZ, 2300 MHZ, 2500 MHZ, 3300-3670 MHZ, and 24.25-28.5 GHZ) for public 5G and private 5G networks.

So that’s it. 5G is coming to India. If you recently bought a 5G phone or plan to buy one, you may soon be able to use India’s high-speed 5G internet service (at least if you live in 13 cities, you will get it first). However, it remains to be seen how much consumers must pay to use 5G in the country. After all, 4G prepaid recharge plans have not become cheaper recently.

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