{"id":34035,"date":"2023-03-23T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34035"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:50:16","slug":"bharat-6g-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bharat-6g-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat 6G Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Background in which Bharat 6G Vision was Launched?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is 6G?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is India\u2019s 6G Roadmap?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How are Other Countries Looking at the 6G Rollout?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the Prime Minister of India has unveiled a vision document &#8211;<strong> Bharat 6G Vision &#8211; for rollout of 6G\/6th generation <\/strong>communications technology in India<strong> by 2030.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As part of its 6G mission,<strong> India will identify priority areas for research<\/strong> by involving all stakeholders, demonstrations and early market interventions through startups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Background in which Bharat 6G Vision was Launched?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At present, <strong>the total annual purchase of smartphones<\/strong> is greater than 16 crore smartphones for about 30 crore Indian households.<\/li>\n<li>This means that every household today is buying smartphones at an average of <strong>one phone every 2 years<\/strong>, indicating that a typical Indian finds a personal smartphone as valuable and necessary as a personal vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>The PM of India formally launched 5G services in<strong> October 2022<\/strong> and said that India should be ready to launch 6G services in the next 10 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is 6G?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Technically, <strong>not in existence today<\/strong>, 6G has been conceived as a far superior technology than 5G.<\/li>\n<li>As opposed to 5G, which at its peak can offer internet speeds up to 10 gigabits per second, 6G promises to offer<strong> ultra-low latency with speeds up to 1 terabit per second <\/strong>(100 times faster than 5G).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its application will include<\/strong> remote-controlled factories, constantly communicating self-driven cars and smart wearables taking inputs directly from human senses.<\/li>\n<li>However, since the majority of 6G supporting communication devices will be battery-powered and can have a high carbon footprint,<strong> it will also need to be balanced with sustainability.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi-test.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/content\/ckeditor\/2023\/03\/23\/image-20230323182114-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: What is 6G?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is India\u2019s 6G Roadmap?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bharat 6G project will be implemented <strong>in two phases<\/strong> and the government has also appointed an <strong>apex council to oversee the project and focus on issues<\/strong> such as\n<ul>\n<li>Standardisation,<\/li>\n<li>Identification of the spectrum for 6G usage,<\/li>\n<li>Create an ecosystem for devices and systems, and<\/li>\n<li>Figure out finances for research and development, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>In phase one (from 2023 to 2025)<\/strong>, support will be provided to explorative ideas, risky pathways and proof-of-concept tests.<\/li>\n<li>Ideas and concepts that show promise and potential for acceptance by the global peer community will be adequately supported to develop them to completion, leading to commercialisation as part of <strong>phase two (from 2025 to 2030)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>To fund research and innovation on 6G<\/strong>, the document recommended the creation of a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to facilitate various funding instruments such as grants, loans, VC fund, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To decide on standardisation around 6G<\/strong> and related technologies, the document called for India to take on a greater role in various international bodies such as 3GPP, ITU, IEC, and IEEE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ECeFhwfBz-M\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECeFhwfBz-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How are Other Countries Looking at the 6G Rollout?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>South Korea<\/strong> has outlined a 6G research and development plan with Rs 1200 crore worth of investments in the first phase running till 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Japan<\/strong>, the Integrated Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Forum has published its Vision 2030 for 6G for infrastructure evolution in four dimensions: <strong>cognitive capacity, responsiveness, scalability, and energy efficiency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Key developments in 6G have also been identified and are being pursued in <strong>China<\/strong>, in order to support connectivity plus sensing plus AI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the difference between 5G and 6G?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>6G (sixth-generation wireless) is the successor to 5G cellular technology. 6G networks will be able to use higher frequencies than 5G networks and provide substantially higher capacity and much lower latency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is the 3GPP?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a consortium with seven national or regional telecommunication standards organizations as primary members and a variety of other organizations as associate members. It is an umbrella term for a number of standards organizations which develop protocols for mobile telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/tech-news-technology\/bharat-6g-project-india-plans-to-roll-out-high-speed-internet-by-2030-8513471\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bharat 6G project: India plans to roll out high-speed internet by 2030<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/high-speed-internet-how-will-india-develop-a-6g-network-8513465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IE<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/pm-modi-unveils-india-6g-vision-document-service-rollout-by-2030-8512506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IE<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat 6G project aims to roll out 6G\/6th generation communications technology in India by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}