New Delhi: Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani on Thursday said, he saw India to be a fully-4G country by 2020 and ready to embrace 5G ahead of others. He was speaking on the first of the three-day India Mobile Congress, an industry conference organised jointly by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). “By 2020, I believe that India will be a fully-4G country…and ready for 5G ahead of others.
Every phone in India will be a 4G enabled phone…and every customer will have access to 4G connectivity,” he said. Ambani, whose company and RIL subsidiary Reliance Jio Infocomm, can be credited with leading the largest and swiftest shift to 4G services anywhere in the world, said India would be among the top three broadband markets in the world, rising from a lowly 135. “And from day one… JioGigaFiber will offer complete fixed mobile convergence… .where Indians will travel seamlessly between mobile and fixed broadband networks…
4G and 5G when on the move. . . and Wi-Fi when indoors,” he said. He said with India now possessing world-class digital infrastructure, the country is “ready to not only embrace…but actually lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” He spoke of how the India-led fourth industrial revolution could solve the biggest problems facing the world and the country. It could help realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of doubling incomes of 150 million Indian farmers, he said.
