Friday, June 06, 2025 | 06:28 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

5G players get ready for a long road to seamless mobile network

Operators say it could take four to five years at least to build a reasonable sized pan-India 5G network with good coverage

5G network
premium

Estimates by Nokia say that the amount of data usage per consumer will go up from 20 GB to over 50 GB in 2027.

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
So just how big will the 5G mobile market really be? Mobile operators are not too bullish about the initial numbers. They fear that lack of killer ‘use cases’, even globally, could stymie the speedy conversion of customers to the new service and also keep ARPUs stagnant, despite the large incremental investment required (about Rs 60,000 crore per player).  

They say 5G roll outs will be far slower than of 4G and will be limited to key cities and circles at most. Of course, 4G, will continue to remain the  backbone of revenue generation, as well as subscribers, for a