6G Technology
6G is the sixth generation of wireless technology. India to get 6G by 2023 end or 2024. A 6G network follows up on 4G and 5G, building on the revamped infrastructure and advanced capacity currently being established on millimeter-wave 5G networks. Using higher-frequency radio bands will give networks much faster speeds and lower latency, able to support sophisticated mobile devices and systems like automated cars.
The reason some experts are researching and talking about 6G, though, is because big changes are in the works for internet technology in general. Consumers are using more devices and consuming internet data at record rates, incorporating Wi-Fi into virtually all aspects of everyday life. And wireless companies are rushing to compete with traditional, broadband internet providers, hoping to meet rising demand with robust and flexible cellular networks.
India has delayed the rollout of 5G technology in India and the country’s telcos earlier this month received a 6-month extension from the government to conduct 5G trials. While the country still waits for 5G, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister for Communication is confident that India will be able to roll out 6G technology by 2023-end or early 2024.

4G vs. 5G vs. 6G
Network | Speeds | Supported devices |
4G | Approx. 33.88 Mbps | Mobile phones, tablets, hotspots |
5G | 40–1,100 Mbps | Mobile phones, tablets, hotspots, public infrastructure, automated cars |
6G | Up to 1 Tbps (1,000,000 Mbps) | Automated cars, cellular surfaces, Wi-Fi implants |
India to get 6G indigenously developed technology
During a webinar organized by the Financial Times and The New Indian Express Vaishnaw said that requisite permissions have been given to the scientists and engineers working on the technology.
6G development has already started. That will be seen somewhere in the time frame 2024 or 2023-end. That is the direction in which we are going. We will have designed in India telecom software for running the networks, manufactured in India telecom equipment, served in India telecom networks which can go global,” Vaishnaw said.

The telecommunications industry and a number of government agencies around the globe have started research on future 6G technologies and experts are currently expecting the first commercial launches of 6G networks to happen around 2028-2030.
Apart from 6G, the launch of indigenous 5G is also on the cards, the minister said, with the development of a core software for the technology to be completed by the third quarter of next year. The auctions for 5G spectrum are also likely to happen in the second quarter of calendar year 2022, he said.