The new area office, fully funded by India, is located on the second floor of the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) building at Mehrauli in New Delhi. India signed a Host Country Agreement in March 2022 with ITU for establishment of an area office, which envisaged an Innovation Centre embedded in it. Modi also added the government and private sector together have laid over 25 lakh km of optical fibre in the last nine years and more than five-lakh common service centres provide online services to most rural areas. The number of Internet users in the country has increased from 25 crore in 2014 to 85 crore, with the majority in rural areas. Stressing that India’s telecom and digital model is smooth, secure, transparent and trusted, the Prime Minister called this decade the ‘Techade’. “These labs will help in developing 5G applications in line with the unique needs of India,” he said. Modi also announced that the country would soon set up 100 new 5G labs. “Before 4G, India was only a user of telecom technology, but now India is moving fast to become a big exporter of telecom technology,” he said.Īlso read: Centre sets up task groups on 6G

The services have been expanded to 125 cities within 120 days of the launch,” Modi said.įrom being a user a few years ago, the country is moving fast to become a big exporter of telecom technology.

“Within six months of the roll-out of 5G technology, we are talking about 6G today.

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