Bharat 6G Mission: India’s Leap Towards Next-Gen Telecom Innovation

Currently, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Indian government to launch the Bharat 6G Mission aimed at achieving the deployment of sixth-generation (6G) telecommunications by the year 2030. It plans to promote India to become the leader of 6G innovation involving such domains as latency, artificial intelligence, connection unbrokenness, and high velocity. The mission will essentially ensure cooperation between the government ministries, academic institutions, and businesses to establish a strong 6G environment. Socially, it seeks to close the digital gap and make 6G innovative technology available for each field as diverse as healthcare, education progress, and farming.

What is 6G (6G wireless)?

• 6G has been imagined to become an even more advanced technology offering internet connection that is 100 times faster than 5G.

• While 5G delivers internet with a maximum rate of 10Gbps at its best, 6G introduces ultra-low latency of up to 1Tbps.

• Also known as the IMT 2030, the 6G Technology has been defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

• ITU is conducting investigation on the frequency bands of 4400-4800 MHz, 7125-8400 MHz or parts thereof, and 14.8-15.35 GHz on the application of IMT. 

Bharat 6G vision

The government intends to put this project into operation in two phases;

• Phase 1 from 2023-2025 (2 years): Thus, in Phase 1, support will be given to exploratory concepts, high-risk approaches, and proof of concept trials.  

• Phase 2 from 2025-2030 (5 years): In Phase 2 there is coming up with ideas and turning them into marketable products.

• Some 6G applications include: A factory that is operated remotely, cars constantly communicating with each other autonomously, and smart devices receiving input from human senses.

Bharat 6G Alliance

• This is an India-based domestic industry, academia, research institutions, and standards organisation. 

• It wants to create a six-year vision and national plan for the 6G technology, to ensure that India stays ahead in the technological race in future decades.

Benefits of 6G 

The advancement in technology 6G will provide opportunities in sectors like;

• Healthcare: Telemedicine, tele-surgeries, remote diagnosis by AI technologies.

• Agriculture: Detailed tracking, precision agriculture through the help of IoT sensors.

• Education: Engagement and on-demand, in-situ learning by use of AR/VR technologies.

• Industrial Automation: Optimizing industry 4.0, integrating more advanced machine-to-machine communication and IoT technology, introducing more powerful Digital Twins.

Challenges

• More investments are required in R&D with special references to semiconductors, AI processors, and sophisticated SoCs.

• As for the disadvantages, one can name cybersecurity and privacy issues in a constantly interconnected network setting.

Solutions to Empower Bharat 6G Mission

• Being involved in the global standards bodies that sets the standards for such hi-tech products and services to ensure global market of our innovation.

• For global connectivity, it can be referred to as Space-Terrestrial Integration.

• The financial structure for investments that help industry, initial-stage companies, academic dependency, and national labs to participate in R&D.

• Secondary, the idea of sharing the same spectrum especially in higher bands.

Conclusion

‘Bharat 6G Mission’ is totally in consonance with the National Vision of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. It also guarantees that India gets its rightful place on the world map as a supplier of efficient telecom technologies, solutions affordable and that are beneficial to the global community.