India intends to build out high-speed internet by 2030 as part of the Bharat 6G initiative.

Although 6G isn’t officially available yet, it has been conceptualized as a far better technology that might provide internet speeds up to 100 times faster than 5G.

According to a vision statement released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, India is preparing to roll out high-speed 6G communication services by 2030 and has established the Bharat 6G initiative to discover and support development and implementation of the next-generation technology in the nation.

The government has also appointed an apex committee to oversee the initiative and focus on issues such as standardization, identifying the spectrum for 6G usage, creating an ecosystem for devices and systems, and deciding on funding for research and development, among other things. In India, the 6G project will be implemented in two phases.

Although 6G isn’t officially available yet, it has been conceptualized as a far better technology that might provide internet speeds up to 100x faster than 5G.

The top council would support and finance 6G technology research and development, design, and development by Indian start-ups, businesses, research organization’s, and universities. By identifying priority areas for 6G research based on India’s comparative advantages, it would help India become a major worldwide vendor of intellectual property, goods, and solutions of inexpensive 6G telecom solutions.

New technologies include terahertz communication, radio interfaces, tactile internet, artificial intelligence for connected intelligence, novel encoding techniques, and waveform chipsets for 6G devices will be a major area of concentration for the council.

Within six months of the introduction of 5G technology, the prime minister announced, “We are talking about 6G.” Before 4G, India primarily used telecom technology; however, the country is currently making rapid progress towards being a significant exporter of telecom technology.

In October 2022, Modi publicly introduced 5G services and declared that India should be prepared to introduce 6G services during the next ten years. 6G promises to provide extremely low latency with rates up to 1 Tbps, in contrast to 5G, which at its best can provide internet speeds up to 10 Gbps.

The document advocated the establishment of a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to facilitate various financial mechanisms including as grants, loans, VC fund, fund of funds, etc. for the following 10 years in order to fund research and innovation on 6G. The record states that “two sorts of funding are anticipated, i.e. grants over Rs 20 crore for high impact projects and grants up to Rs 20 crore to fulfil financial requirements ranging from small to medium.”