PD Vaghela, chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), said a joint committee of regulators comprising the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, and the ministries of home and consumer affairs is also trying to combat phishing and digital fraud.
“We are working with the ministries of education, health, MSME and agriculture for development of 5G use cases…,” Vaghela said at the fourth edition of the ETTelecom Digital Telco Summit, 2023 on Friday. “The ministries will bring specific domain knowledge while we will enable coordination between telecom companies, sector experts and resolve regulatory issues.”
He said the Trai Center for Studies & Research is exploring collaborative efforts with academic and research institutions to drive development of India-specific use cases and will start working with the respective verticals from September.
To complement these efforts, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), too, is working with several central ministries to use 5G for driving tech convergence across industry sectors.
VL Kantha Rao, additional secretary in the DoT, said the communications ministry had identified ministries that have done work around 5G use cases, adding that some 10-12 central ministries will showcase at the India Mobile Congress event in October how 5G-driven tech convergence can happen.Randeep Sekhon, chief technology officer (CTO) at Bharti Airtel, said 5G technology with the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) will generate a plethora of use cases that will be relevant for several verticals, including manufacturing, education and logistics.