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Bharat 6G Alliance Gathers For Key Meeting As India Prepares For Next-Gen Telecom Era
Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia
Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday (26 September) initiated a meeting of the seven working of the Bharat 6G Alliance.
The Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA) is a collaborative platform consisting of public and private companies, academia, research institutions, and standards development organisations.
The Central government had formed the Bharat 6G Alliance in July last year.
Hinting at the arrival of 6G in India, the Scindia wrote in a post on X, "6G is India’s future! 6G is India’s potential!"
"In line with PM Narendra Modi Ji’s vision to make Bharat a “telecom superpower”, glad to have initiated a meeting with the seven Working Groups of the Bharat 6G Alliance," he further added.
Scindia further asserted that insights from the discussion will strengthen the telecom sector and unlock a new era of communications, enhancing connectivity and fostering holistic development.
According to the Ministry of Communications, B6GA will forge coalitions and synergies with other 6G Global Alliances, fostering international collaboration and knowledge exchange.
The Alliance will enable India to become a leading global supplier of IP, products and solutions of affordable 5G and 6G and other future telecom solutions, according to the B6GA website.
The aims and objectives of the B6GA include:
To support and energise Indian participation in standard development organisations;
To build coalitions with similar 6G Global Alliances and other global technology alliances and associations;
To address India’s priorities for contribution to 6G and other future technology-related global standards, deployments, products, operations and services;
To promote the ecosystem for research, design, prototyping, development, proof of concept testing, IPR creation, field testing, security, certification and manufacturing of telecom products, end-to-end Solutions, Use-cases, Pilots, among other things.
To study and recommend national requirements and enable their inclusion in Indian and international standardisation bodies;
To develop recommendations for Bharat 6G Vision implementation readiness in India;
To bring together academic institutions, domestic industries, research and development entities, test labs, Government entities, telecommunication service providers, technology and innovation start-ups etc. as well as the Government of India, to help create synergies for a balanced growth of the technology and innovations ecosystem in the country for the benefit of the common people;
To identify priority areas for research by involving all stakeholders including industry, academia, and service providers, spanning theoretical and simulation studies, proof-of concept prototypes and demonstrations, and early market interventions led by start-ups.
