BSNL plans to complete 4G rollout in India by June 2024.
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BSNL plans to complete the 4G rollout in India by June 2024, as confirmed by telecom's Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) P.K. Purwar (via) at the annual Mobile India Congress (2023). Soon after, the telecom network will begin 5G rollout in the country.
Union IT and Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw a while ago mentioned that BSNL's 4G network will be upgraded to 5G in November-December, but the 4G rollout took longer than expected and this in turn pushed 5G availability only next year.
According to a PTI report from October, the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) has indigenously developed the entire 5G network for BSNL. The same will apparently be deployed in the next six to eight months. "C-DoT demonstrated the test network set-up using its 5G gears in a live video call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress 2023," as per the report.