Presentation delivered at The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers on occasion of Foundation Day, The talk covered how 5G can play a key role in leapfrogging India's growth.

1. THE
CATALYST TO
DIGITAL
REVOLUTION
IN INDIA

2. • Honored as Technology Pioneer by World Economic
Forum and part of expert network on digitization.
• DBS Bank Top 100 Social Entrepreneur, STARTUP
CEO of Year ICFA, CEO of Rabo Bank top 20 AgriTech
Companies.
• A published author of 7 books on various technology
and business subjects.
• Advised Hon. Narendra Modi (current Prime Minister
and then CM Gujarat) from 2008 to 2011.
• Profiled by ITU in their Who’s Who list for 2005 and
2006 as International ICT Visionary.
• The Economist conferred “Certificate of Achievement”
for great contribution to technology landscape.
• Visiting faculty at top institutions.
TECHNOLOGY
PIONEER 2018

3. INDIA IS AT THE CUSP OF A DIGITAL REVOLUTION
INCREASING MOBILE AND BROADBAND INTERNET
PENETRATION
EXPONENTIAL DATA UPTAKE (HUMAN TO HUMAN, HUMAN
TO MACHINE, MACHINE TO MACHINE)
INCREASING TREND OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION ACROSS
INDUSTRIES (INDUSTRY 4.0, ROBOTICS, AI & ML, VR&AR)
GOVERNMENT’S FOCUS ON DIGITALIZATION (DIGITAL INDIA,
SMART CITIES, GOVERNANCE 4.0)

4. THE INTERNET ECONOMY IN INDIA IS USD 155
BILLION IN 2018, CONTRIBUTING TO AROUND
5% TO THE GDP. THIS IS LIKELY TO GROW BY
1.5-1.75 TIMES IN NEXT 3 YEARS.

5. INDIA’S DIGITAL ECONOMY HAS THE POTENTIAL TO
REACH USD 1 TRILLION BY THE YEAR
2025.
5G IS ENVISAGED TO BE THE KEY CATALYST
THAT WOULD FUEL THIS GROWTH.

6. 5 G HAS ALREADY ARRIVED
OUT OF THE 681
LTE COMMERCIAL
NETWORKS GLOBALLY, MORE
THAN ONE-FIFTH, ACROSS 66
COUNTRIES ARE ALREADY IN
THE PROCESS OF
CONDUCTING FIELD TRIALS
AND TESTING 5G.

7. WHY 5G????

8. WHAT IS UNIQUE IN 5G????
5G DATA
SPEED IS
EXPECTED
TO BE
AROUND
10 GBPS
5G IS
BEING
DESIGNED
FOR LESS
THAN 1 MS
LATENCY
5G
HANDSETS
WILL HAVE
MUCH
LONGER
BATTERY
LIFE
5G HAS
SDN
(SOFTWARE
DEFINED
NETWORK) /
NFV
(NETWORK
FUNCTION
VIRTUALISATION)
5G USE
HIGHER
FREQUENCY
BANDS
(30-300
GHZ)

10. WHICH MEANS
• Extreme Data Rates: Multi-gigabits per second, for, e.g. UHD virtual reality
• Uniform User Experience: At least 100 Mbps everywhere, not impacting QoS/E
Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)
• Ultra- High Density: 1M devices/Km2, for the hyper connected NW vision
• Ultra- Low Energy: +10 years of battery life
• Ultra- Low Bit Rates: 10’ of bits per sec., for monitoring NW
• Deep Coverage: To reach challenging locations
Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)
• Strong Security: Critical communications ,e.g. government/financial trusted
• Ultra-high Reliability: <1 out of 100M packets lost, needed for critical applications
• Ultra-low Latency: Low as 1 ms, for, e.g. autonomous driving and virtual reality
Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications
(uRLLC)

11. 5G APPLICATIONS

12. 5G
BUSINESS
CASES