The Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is planning to come up with a novel ‘5G Corridor’ starting from Delhi’s Lutyens’ area as one of the use cases for newer technology which is likely to make inroads by 2020 in India. In Delhi, BSNL is planning a 5G Corridor to showcase the possible use of new technology with the optimum data speed at 5G levels. 5G-LTE will drastically improve the mobile Internet, supporting data speeds beyond one Gbps to reach 20 Gbps.
The corridor will start from the Ministry of Communications premise or Sanchar Bhawan at Ashoka Road to BSNL headquarters at Janpath in New Delhi towards Connaught Place market that has a high footfall, enabling users to stay seamlessly connected with high-speed data network..
BSNL is also planning to deploy a 5G test centre in New Delhi to demonstrate use cases of low-latency communication in the areas of healthcare and education. The company has already entered into strategic alliances with Cisco, Ciena, Coriant, Nokia, Samsung, and Japanese SoftBank and NTT, and is actively considering field trials over a period of next one year.
In 2018, the Department of Telecom (DoT) sent a letter to BSNL asking it to initiate 5G technology-based trials, in addition to private companies such as Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, also asking them to showcase India-specific use cases.