5G rollout can help overcome traditional barriers to development: Economic Survey
The rollout of 5G services can unleash new economic opportunities and help India leapfrog the traditional barriers to development, while boosting innovation by startups and businesses, the Economic Survey said.
The massive wave of digitisation, rising penetration of smartphones, and technology adoption have opened the doors for both traditional and new-age sectors, observed the Economic Survey 2022-23, which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.
"The rollout of 5G services can unleash new economic opportunities and help the country leapfrog the traditional barriers to development, spur innovations by startups and business enterprises, and advance the 'Digital India' vision," it said.
The journey is "far from complete and a lot remains to be accomplished to realise our true potential".
The survey made a mention of the interstate disparity in teledensity, where rural areas trailed urban locations in the telecom penetration, but added in the same breath that the catch-up by the rural areas is "heartening".
It underlined that year-on-year change in internet subscribers is greater in rural (for the majority of the states) than in urban areas.
On the next-generation connectivity services, it said 5G could impact consumers directly through higher data transfer speeds and lower latency, and noted its use cases developed by telcos and startups in education, health, worker safety, smart agriculture are now being deployed across the country.
Telecom reforms and clear policy direction led to the spectrum auction of 2022 garnering the highest-ever bids, the survey observed.
As a major reform measure, the Indian Telegraph Right of Way (Amendment) Rules, 2022, will facilitate faster and easier deployment of telegraph
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