Reliance Jio, India’s leading telecom operator, said in its dissenting comments to the consultation paper titled ‘Digital Transformation with 5G Ecosystem’ that 6GHz spectrum is critical for 6G deployment in India. Additionally, the telco has said that the 6 GHz spectrum is critical to providing ubiquitous 5G coverage in India.
The telco suggested that the government should not delicense the 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi services. The tech company has expressed the opinion that he will delicense the 6 GHz spectrum to provide his Wi-Fi services across the country. However, Jio and the GSM Association have said many times in the past that the 6 GHz spectrum is critical to delivering 5G.
The bandwidth currently available in the mid-band is not sufficient to provide comprehensive 5G coverage in India. Therefore, the 6 GHz spectrum plays a key role here.
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Jio said, “Since the 6 GHz band is the only mid-band spectrum available for IMT services, the entire 6 GHz (1200 MHz, or 5925-7125 MHz) band will be allocated to IMT, with approximately 300 MHz to 400 MHz each We need to be available for service.” His push for TSP towards the growth of 5G and the introduction of his 6G services. ”
Jio suggests licensing process needs to be followed to allocate spectrum to anyone
Jio said parties that want to access spectrum without a license simply don’t want to go through the licensing process and also don’t want to pay the market price for the spectrum.
“Delicensing of spectrum would not only create cost arbitrage between carriers providing services in the licensed spectrum and other carriers, but would also result in significant losses to the Treasury. “It will be,” Geo said.
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At the Jio event, countries that delicensed the 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi services will reverse their decisions when the bulk of the spectrum (i.e. 6.425 GHz to 7.25 GHz) is being considered for IMT in WRC-23. said that they are facing difficulties. . There are already unlicensed but unused spectrum bands in India. First, its utilization should be realized, and then further delicensing of the spectrum should be discussed.
Jio said the delicensing of V and 6GHz bands for Wi-Fi services is unjustified, as they become broadband services that directly compete with and can replace 5G.
“In view of the above, we reiterate our submission that we do not agree with the need to allow license-free operations in these bands,” Jio concluded.