Speaking at the same industry event jointly organised by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC), minister of state for communication Devusinh Chauhan added that India will be in a position to develop a fully indigenous 6G stack by the end of the decade.

New Delhi: India has more than 127 registered patents related to 6G technology, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Wednesday.

He added that the indigenous 4G and 5G stack created in the country is now seeing interest from other countries as well.

Speaking at the same industry event jointly organised by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC), minister of state for communication Devusinh Chauhan added that India will be in a position to develop a fully indigenous 6G stack by the end of the decade.

“The Prime Minister’s vision is that in 5G (technology) we want to stand shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the world, but in 6G, we should take the lead. Basis this target, the academia, innovators and entrepreneurs have worked such that by now more than 127 patents for 6G have been obtained by us,” Vaishnaw said addressing the press at the event.

He added while India has been a leader in software development for a while, it is fast gaining prominence in the field of hardware manufacturing and the combination of the two will make India an end-to-end technology exporter.

Some of the products manufactured in India are exported to as many as 55 countries, including the United States of America, he said.

He also spoke about the need to update regulation for a digital economy and how older regulation is no longer the right fit for the dynamic digital economy.

Formulating regulations for the digital economy requires restructuring them such that they are dynamic, and principle based rather than prescriptive, he said.

“There are certain horizontals and there are some verticals (in the economy). The horizontals include (things like) telecom and data privacy which cut across verticals,” Vaishnaw said, adding that the regulatory set up is framed in a way which addresses technology agnostic horizontals and technology focused verticals.

The rules and regulations being written for the digital economy are focused on ensuring the horizontals are technology agnostic, dynamic, inclusive, and specific to the Indian way of life and society.

“Both the Data Protection and Telecom Bill are principles based and not prescriptive. Both try to bring in the latest position of the technology and what it could be in the future, and not legacy (technology),” he added.

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