It looks like this may finally be the end for any form of home-grown version of 5G in India – even one merged with standards body the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)’s global 5G standard. The country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has now apparently decided to abandon 5Gi, as the local standard is known.
India s proposed local next-generation standard, known as 5Gi, has been the cause of some concern among operators, hardware vendors, chipmakers and smartphone manufacturers, many of which were worried that it would be mandatory for 5G deployment in the country. Now it appears that is not going to happen.