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For future 5G needs, the international telecommunication union (ITU) is deliberating on allocating spectrum in 7-24 GHz bands and in 4800 MHz band.In a letter to K Rajaraman, secretary, DoT, the Broadband India Forum sought delicensing the 6 GHz so that affordable broadband can be provided to rural and remote areas using WiFi technologies...
Stressing that the entire 6 GHz band should be delicensed for WiFi services, the tech industry has highlighted that enough spectrum in various bands has already been provided for 5G..
The BIF's reaction is in response to telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Vodafone Idea, who want the 6 GHz band to be auctioned, saying it is useful for commercial deployment of 5G services as well as for 5.5G and 6G in the future...
BIF said ITU has initiated preliminary studies on the use of a portion of the 6 GHz band for 5G purposes in Region 1 (which includes the Americas and UK), and the outcomes of these studies are expected to be revealed at the upcoming World Radio Conference later in Q4 this year...
The tech industry group noted that with the availability and benefits of superior and standardized WiFi technologies such as WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 in the 6 GHz band, many countries with much smaller requirements than India have delicensed the entire 6 GHz spectrum band for greater broadband proliferation through WiFi...
