Jio urges Centre, Trai to ensure adequate spectrum for telcos

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Telecom market leader Reliance Jio has urged the government and the industry regulator to ensure that carriers have adequate airwave holdings, as the amount of spectrum they hold in India is the lowest per subscriber globally...

"I sincerely urge the regulators and policymakers of our nation to ascertain how India needs to expedite its spectrum pipeline as our operators work with the least amount of spectrum per subscriber compared to anywhere else in the world, especially sub-10GHz spectrum..

Jio's Oommen also called on the government to expedite steps to prevent rampant fibre cuts and penalise those responsible, warning that vital telecom infrastructure was getting destroyed nationally...

Speaking at the ETTelecom event, Jio Platforms senior vice president Aayush Bhatnagar said the telecom market leader is also actively contributing to R&D work in the field of 6G, or sixth-generation mobile network technology, and is also developing a 6G core...

Jio's Oommen, in turn, said the telco had created digital public and connectivity infrastructure, and is now working towards creating artificial intelligence GPU infrastructure, i.e., the next-generation compute infrastructure..