Government announced to discontinue production of 4G phones priced at Rs 10,000 and above and are going to switch to 5G enabled phones.
Top officials from the DoT and the MeitY met with mobile operators and smartphone manufacturers, telling them to launch 5G services with 5G enabled smartphones within three months.
India has approximately 750 million mobile phone users.
Out of the 750 million users, 100 million users have 5G-ready phones, but more than 350 million people use phones that are only 3G-4G compatible.
The meeting was also attended by top executives from Apple and Samsung.
The meeting was called to fine-tune the relationship between mobile operators and smartphone manufacturers so that they began to test together for 5G compatibility.
100 million subscribers in India have 5G-ready phones already, but many devices, including Apple, are not compatible with 5G services at this time.
The meeting also addressed handset manufacturers’ and telecom service providers’ active participation in rolling out several software FOTA upgrades for all 5G handsets.