Nearly a third (32%) of enterprises in India said they would prefer to obtain airwaves from another company instead of directly purchasing spectrum from the government for the fifth-generation (5G)-backed services, a Deloitte India finding revealed. <\/p>\n
“32% of Indian enterprises said they would prefer to license spectrum from another company instead of purchasing spectrum directly from the government\/regulatory body,” London-based consulting firm in a study said.<\/p>\n
20% of respondents were interested in spectrum sharing if they get dedicated rights.<\/p>\n
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is yet to come up with a roadmap for 5G spectrum auction while the next generation technology promises to offer multiple use cases for large enterprises across industries.<\/p>\n
Globally telecom regulators have set aside a portion of the spectrum for fifth-generation or 5G networks (for instance, a portion of the 3.5GHz range) to enable local enterprises in building their own private 5G networks but, according to the new finding, India is likely to go for a combination of both public and private 5G slice instead of solely relying on private 5G.<\/p>\n
Indian executives expect to leverage telco-enabled 5G slices as they believe utilising services through a wireless provider is preferable to acquiring spectrum directly through the government\/regulatory body or holding exclusive rights on a dedicated or shared spectrum.<\/p>\n
5G, according to the report, is a priority technology for 80% of Indian enterprises along with Wi-Fi 6 (73%), and Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT\/LPWA (63%), while low priority technologies include LoRa (6%), Sigfox, and LTE-M (8% each).<\/p>\n
Further, a majority of enterprise executives (98%) believe 5G and\/or Wi-Fi 6 will transform their business in the next five years, while 88% believe that the transformation will occur within the next three years.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Wi-Fi 6 is preferred by 55% of executives for indoor use cases and 5G is preferred by 53% of executives for outdoor use-cases.<\/p>\n
However, despite the promising data, 45% of Indian enterprises believe cybersecurity along with system compatibility (39%), lack of spectrum availability (37%), and immature next-generation technologies (35%) are some inhibiting factors that need to be addressed in public 5G service adoption. <\/p>\n
At the same time, 39% of the Indian enterprises are expected to invest anywhere between $10-50 million for wireless technology enhancement within their organisation. <\/p>\n
The finding also pointed out that data speed has emerged as the topmost priority of 80% of Indian enterprises as business strategies shifted during the pandemic. <\/p>\n
Big Data and Cloud (98% each) followed by IoT and AI (94% each) are being seen as the most important emerging technologies by Indian enterprises. <\/p>\n
The research data is based on a survey of 437 IT line-of-business (LoB) executives in nine countries which was carried out in Q4 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic) out of which India accounted for 51 respondents, the consulting firm added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nearly a third (32%) of enterprises in India said they would prefer to obtain airwaves from another company instead of directly purchasing spectrum from the government for the fifth-generation (5G)-backed services, a Deloitte India finding revealed. “32% of Indian enterprises said they would prefer to license spectrum from another company instead of purchasing spectrum directly from the government\/regulatory body,” London-based consulting firm in a study said. 20% of respondents were interested in spectrum sharing if they get dedicated rights. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is yet to come up with a roadmap for 5G spectrum auction while the next generation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}