Asking the telecom industry to focus on innovation around 5G technology to create products with India specific patents, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that India must become a centre of telecom equipment manufacturing and low cost telecom products.
The Minister exhorted the telecom sector to make India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing, further adding that India is on its way to become a global power with march of technology. He also said that India generates huge amount of data and has a potential to emerge as global hub for data analysis, data innovation and data refinery while prioritising privacy.
Besides, Telecom Minister wants mobile sector to ensure that start-ups should be encouraged more & more and mobile sector to work in conjunction with start-ups. He asked the industry to come with innovative 5G products in areas like mobile, healthcare, agriculture and other sectors which have potential to reap its benefit.