India set the ball rolling in earnest to set up semiconductor plants with its₹76,000 crore PLI (production-linked incentive) scheme in December 2021. The idea is to make the country self-reliant in semiconductors while saving money on imports and help compete with countries such as China.
If the International Semiconductor Consortium (ISMC) gets the Indian government’s sanction to set up a wafer fab in India, chipmaker Intel, too, will be a part of the project since it announced the acquisition of Tower Semiconductor in February. ISMC is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Next Orbit Ventures and Israel’s Tower Semiconductor. Singapore firm IGSS Ventures said it would invest $3.2 billion in Tamil Nadu to set up a high-tech semiconductor park in the state. Foxconn and Vedanta plan to set up a semiconductor fab unit, a display fab unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit over 1,000 acres in Gujarat’s capital Ahmedabad. The three proposals for wafer fabs worth $13.6 billion have sought $5.6 billion in government support.
India has rolled out incentives to make this endeavor a fast reality !!!. Check a quick peek for the corporates.
There is economic rationale to build the fab in India as the interest from majors like Dell, Apple, Acer, HP, Asus, etc has risen and so has teh consumption and demand to make more in India. The country's share is likely to grow to 10% from current 3% which will be approx. $300Bn.
India also holds the R&D advantage as majors like Samsung and Qualcomm hold large centers here. This will provide much needed impetus to progress and offer the state of the art facility.
5G is here. Both Reliance Jio and Airtel have launched their 5G services in some parts of the country. Airtel 5G is already available in 8 cities starting last week and beginning today Jio 5G service is rolling out in 4 cities. Now, it should be noted that not all smartphone will be able to support Airtel or Jio 5G.Only smartphones with 5G network will be able to support 5G service from Jio and Airtel. In simple words, people who are on 2G, 3G or 4G smartphone right now will not be able to enjoy the high speed 5G service. So, does your smartphone support 5G? Not sure? Well, there's a way to find out if your existing smartphone supports 5G or not.
How to find out if your phone supports 5G
Step 1: On your phone, head to the Settings app Step 2: Click on the option 'Wi-Fi & Network' Step 3: Click on 'SIM & Network' option Step 4: You will be able to see a list of all technologies under the 'Preferred network type' option. Step 5: If your phone supports 5G, it will be listed as 2G/3G/4G/5G.
If you are living in city where Airtel or Jio are rolling out 5G services, then you can simply click on the 2G/3G/4G/5G option to try out high speed internet.
So, if you want to run 5G, you will need to buy a 5G phone first. There are several smartphone companies offering 5G smartphones across various price points.
In fact, brands like Realme and Lava have confirmed to launch 5G phone for under Rs 10,000.
Starting today, Reliance Jio is rolling out 5G service as a beat trial in 4 cities including - Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Varanasi. Airtel, on the other hand, is offering 5G services in 8 cities including -- Delhi, Varanasi, Nagpur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai and Siliguri. Airtel CEO recently confirmed that pan India rollout of 5G services will happen by March 2024, whereas, Jio 5G will be available for everyone by December 2023.
Prime
Minister of India Mr. Narenda Modi will oversee the launch of 5G services in India on
October 1 at 10 AM.
The
three major telecom operators– Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea will demonstrate
one used case each showcasing the potential of 5G technology in India on
the lines of AR- VR & AI effectively in our daily lives and industrial use.
Test case 1:
Reliance Jio
will connect a teacher from a school in Mumbai with students in three different
locations in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Odisha. This will demonstrate how 5G will
facilitate education by bringing teachers closer to students, obviating the
physical distance between them. It will demonstrate the power of Augmented Reality (AR) on screen and
how that is being used to teach children across the country, remotely, without
the need of an AR device.
Test case 2:
In the Airtel
demo, a girl from Uttar Pradesh will witness a lively and immersive education
experience to learn about the solar system with the help of AR-VR Augmented reality-Virtual reality
. The girl will share her experience of learning with the PM by appearing on
the dais through a hologram.
Test case 3:
The Vodafone
Idea test case will demonstrate safety of workers in an under construction
tunnel of Delhi Metro through creation of a Digital Twin of the tunnel on the dais.
Digital twin will help give safety alerts to workers in real time from a remote
location. PM will take a live demo from the dais to monitor the work in real
time through utilizing VR and Artificial Intelligence.
The Prime Minister will visit an exhibition and will
witness the demonstration of the use of 5G technology in multiple areas. The
various use cases that will be demonstrated in front of PM in the exhibition
include
·Precision drone based farming;
·High Security Routers & AI based Cyber Threat
Detection Platform;
·Automated Guided Vehicles;
·Ambupod – Smart Ambulance;
·Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality /Mix Reality in Education and
Skill Development; Sewage Monitoring System;
·Smart-Agri Program;
·Health diagnostics, among others.
5G technology will offer a wide range of benefits to
the common people. It will help in providing seamless coverage, high data rate,
low
latency, and highly reliable communications leading to increased energy
efficiency, spectrum efficiency and network efficiency. 5G technology
will help in connecting billions of Internet of Things devices, will allow
higher quality video services with mobility at high speed, delivery of critical
services such as tele-surgery and autonomous cars among others.
5G
will help in real time monitoring of disasters, precision agriculture, minimizing
the role of humans in dangerous industrial operations such as in deep mines,
offshore activities etc.
Unlike
existing mobile communication networks, 5G networks will allow tailoring of
requirements for each of these different use cases within the same network
Indian Telco space has been the largest in terms of subscriber base and market depth. India has been one of the smarter spaces for Telcos to see wider adaptation of Next Gen and new age solution. India has been a torch bearer on mass scale next gen technology Liz;
CDMA implementation and its cheaper alternative to GSM dominance.
2.5G under the back bone support from Docomo in the era of 2G.
Move to fasted 3G implementation
Fastest movement to 4G, along with quick customer on boarding and same day activation.
5G recently concluded spectrum bids with most players bidding circle, new entrants like Adani opting for industrial use.
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Notes
On 28 February 2018 Aircel filed for bankruptcy with NCLT and a substantial number of customers have migrated to other service providers due to closing down of most of the consumer services.
The services of Telenor India have been merged with Airtel on 14 May 2018.
On 31 August 2018, Vodafone India has been merged with Idea Cellular to form Vi.
The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Docomo, Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) have been merged into Bharti Airtel from 1 July 2019.
If the International Semiconductor Consortium (ISMC) gets the Indian government’s sanction to set up a wafer fab in India, chipmaker Intel, too, will be a part of the project since it announced the acquisition of Tower Semiconductor in February. ISMC is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Next Orbit Ventures and Israel’s Tower Semiconductor. Singapore firm IGSS Ventures said it would invest $3.2 billion in Tamil Nadu to set up a high-tech semiconductor park in the state. Foxconn and Vedanta plan to set up a semiconductor fab unit, a display fab unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit over 1,000 acres in Gujarat’s capital Ahmedabad. The three proposals for wafer fabs worth $13.6 billion have sought $5.6 billion in government support.
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