'Eyeing 10% share of worldwide patents in 6G services for India'

After the fastest 5G rollout, India is targeting a tenth of all worldwide patents in sixth generation mobile services, Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia said on Wednesday. He was delivering a keynote address at the 51st edition of the AIMA National Management Convention here. "Whilst we have the fastest growing 5G network in the world, in 22 months building out 4.5 lakh 4G towers, building out our own 4G technology for BSNL, we are also embarking on our path towards 6G by setting up the Bharat 6G Alliance.

"Our target is to ensure 10 per cent of international worldwide patents for India in 6G through this Bharat 6G alliance in the days to come," he said. India has emerged as a beacon of hope and stability amid tremendous amount of global economic and social turbulence, the minister said. "She (India) today is rising on the world stage, no longer an embodiment of a struggling economy, but an economy that is on the rise, an economy that is rising like a phoenix in the comity of the nations," he said. The fact that India today is the second-largest producer of mobile phones in the world is a testimony of the same, Scindia said.

India's communication industry has gone through its own metamorphosis over the last decade. "India, for the first time in her existence, has developed her own 4G stack technology that will be rolled out by the middle of next year, Scindia said. It is important not only to implement technology, but also to design and develop indigenous technology. Likewise, it is not only important to copy what the world has set as standards, but "India also should set the standards for the world in the days to come" the minister asserted.

"There are three targets that we have set for ourselves. The first target is to ensure saturation...Every corner of our country must be connected digitally. Every single person must be able to avail of every single opportunity through the digital revolution," he noted.