Adoption of private 5G networks to spurt by 2nd half of 2024: Nokia India head
5G networks in India from the second half of 2024, said a senior executive of Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia. «You will see some early adopters this year, and then I think by the second half of 2024, there will be a big growth in the enterprises,» said Sanjay Malik, head of the India market for Nokia. He was speaking at ETTelecom's fourth edition of Digital Telco event — 2023, organised with the TRAI Centre for Studies and Research.
«My belief is that the benefit is definitely there (in private networks). From an ecosystem perspective, telcos and application providers are important. Whatever an enterprise requires, to give them a custom-based solution.
It is just taking that initial time to get the whole thing together,» Malik said. On the other hand, he said that enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and fixed wireless are expected to be among the earliest use cases of 5G technology in India. «Overall data capacity is something which should be seen as one of the use cases.
We do talk about (5G) device prices, and penetration is pretty limited as of now. But that's where I would say the ecosystem has been working well. 4G was successful because the ecosystem worked jointly,» said Malik.
«The same will happen with 5G. Secondly, FWA (fixed wireless access) is being spoken about quite a lot.» Citing the US market, he said 90% of net additions in the home broadband segment are being driven by FWA. By contrast, Malik said, «We (India) have done quite a lot on wireless connectivity.
But on the home broadband, a big gap is still there.» He said taking fibre connectivity to every home in the country is not going to be easy. «That's why fixed wireless access will be the way to go,» he said. Malik underscored that India has a
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