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The Broadband India Forum (BIF) has questioned the government’s decision to ask enterprises to submit demand studies in order to assess direct assignment of spectrum for them to set up private captive 5G networks.
The government announced to undertake demand studies for the direct assignment of spectrum to enterprises with net worth more than Rs 100 crore which are willing to set up private captive 5G networks.
However, BIF President TV Ramachandran said that they welcome the announcement by DoT but sincerely wonder why such a demand study is required at all. Ramachandran said that the country needs to implement 5G CNPN “with the option of direct spectrum to enterprises so that India can move to Industry 4.0 expeditiously.”
Ramachandran argued, “There are 794 such private networks in the rest of the world and we need to be aligned to that. Pro-rata potential for India could be 150-200 private networks. Moreover, there was no such demand study for the public networks of 4G, 3G or 2G.”
The government had issued the ‘Guidelines for Captive Non-Public Network (CNPN) license’, aimed at establishing the legal framework for CNPNs. The guidelines provide that the enterprises seeking to establish CNPN may obtain spectrum on lease from Telecom Service Providers or directly from DoT.
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