Bhubaneswar: 5G internet services are to be rolled out in Odisha in the first phase, informed Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the Odisha Nirman Conclave-22 organised by Kanak News in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.
Vaishnaw said the equipment required to launch 5G services has already arrived. The tuning and planning is underway. The services will be rolled out in Odisha within three months.
Earlier in October, the Minister had said that the 5G services will be rolled out in about 200 cities of India under the first phase. In this phase, few major cities of Odisha will also be connected with 5G network by the end of March 2023.
By the end of 2023, under phase-II, around 80 per cent of the state will be covered under the high-speed Internet service, he informed.
All the big cities will be covered in phase-1 and the service will be subsequently extended to semi-urban areas and then, rural areas across the country, said Vaishnaw.
