Lok Sabha Question No. 978 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-08
Subject: 5G Services
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Sanjay Seth

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 978 TO BE ANSWERED ON 8 TH  FEBRUARY, 2023

## 5G SERVICES

## †978.   SHRI SANJAY SETH:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the name of the cities in the country where 5G Services have been started and the cities where 5G Services will be started in the next one year;
- (b) the time by which 5G Services are likely to be started in Jharkhand;
- (c) the district-wise details of the rural areas of Jharkhand which are still not covered by internet services; and
- (d) the time by which internet connectivity will be started in these areas?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS (SHRI DEVUSINH CHAUHAN)

(a) Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) have started providing 5G services in the country from 01.10.2022 onwards. As on 31.01.2023, 5G services have been started in 238 cities distributed across all license service areas ( Annexure-I ).

As per the Notice Inviting Application (NIA) dated 15-06-2022 for auction of spectrum and the license conditions, the rollout obligations are required to be met over a period of five years, in a phased  manner,  from  the  date  of  allocation  of  spectrum.  Further  expansion  of  mobile  networks beyond the mandatory rollout obligations, depends on the techno-commercial consideration of the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs).

- (b) 5G  services  have  already  been  started  in  Ranchi,  Jamshedpur  and  Dhanbad  cities  of Jharkhand.

(c) & (d) District-wise details of rural areas of Jharkhand which are still not covered by internet services are given in Annexure-II . Government has initiated a project to extend 4G coverage to these 1367 uncovered villages under the 4G Saturation project being executed by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) with the timeline of completion in 500 Days. The project is being funded through Universal Service Obligation Fund.

## Annexure-I

Annexure referred to in part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 978 to be answered on 08.02.2023

## List of cities where 5G services have been started as on 31.01.2023:

| Sl    | State/UT          | City          |
|-------|-------------------|---------------|
| No    |                   |               |
| 1     |                   | Guntur        |
| 2     |                   | Vijayawada    |
| 3     |                   | Visakhapatnam |
| 4     |                   | Tirupati      |
| 5     |                   | Tirumala      |
| 6     |                   | Nellore       |
| 7     |                   | Kakinada      |
| 8     |                   | Rajahmundry   |
| 9     |                   | Kurnool       |
| 10    |                   | Anantapur     |
| 11    |                   | Cuddapah      |
| 12    | Andhra Pradesh    | Eluru         |
| 13    |                   | Vizianagaram  |
| 14    |                   | Ongole        |
| 15    |                   | Nandyal       |
| 16    |                   | Bheemavaram   |
| 17    |                   | Chittoor      |
| 18    |                   | Tenali        |
| 19    |                   | Srikakulam    |
| 20    |                   | Narasaraopet  |
| 21    |                   | Chirala       |
| 22    |                   | Guntakal      |
| 23    | Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar      |
| 24    | Assam             | Guwahati      |
| 25    |                   | Silchar       |
| 26    |                   | Dibrugarh     |
| 27    |                   | Jorhat        |
| 28    |                   | Nagaon        |
| 29    |                   | Tezpur        |
| 30    | Bihar             | Patna         |
| 31    |                   | Muzaffarpur   |
| 32    |                   | Gaya          |
| 33    |                   | Bhagalpur     |
| 34    | Chandigarh        | Chandigarh    |
| 35    |                   | Raipur        |
| 36    |                   | Durg          |
| 37    |                   | Bilaspur      |
| 38    | Chhattisgarh      | Korba         |
| 39    |                   | Ambikapur     |
| 40    |                   | Rajnandgaon   |
| 41    |                   | Dhamtari      |
| 42    |                   | Bhilainagar   |
| 43 44 | Delhi Goa         | Delhi Panaji  |

|   45 |                  | Ahmedabad      |
|------|------------------|----------------|
|   46 |                  | Ahwa           |
|   47 |                  | Amreli         |
|   48 |                  | Anand          |
|   49 |                  | Bharuch        |
|   50 |                  | Bhavnagar      |
|   51 |                  | Bhuj           |
|   52 |                  | Botad          |
|   53 |                  | Chhota Udaipur |
|   54 |                  | Dohad          |
|   55 |                  | Godhra         |
|   56 |                  | Himatnagar     |
|   57 |                  | Jamnagar       |
|   58 |                  | Junagadh       |
|   59 |                  | Kalol          |
|   60 |                  | Khambhalia     |
|   61 |                  | Lunavada       |
|   62 |                  | Mahesana       |
|   63 |                  | Modasa         |
|   64 |                  | Morvi          |
|   65 |                  | Nadiad         |
|   66 |                  | Navsari        |
|   67 |                  | Palanpur       |
|   68 |                  | Patan          |
|   69 |                  | Porbandar      |
|   70 |                  | Rajkot         |
|   71 |                  | Rajpipla       |
|   72 |                  | Surat          |
|   73 |                  | Vadodara       |
|   74 |                  | Valsad         |
|   75 |                  | Veraval        |
|   76 |                  | Vyara          |
|   77 |                  | Wadhwan        |
|   78 |                  | Gandhinagar    |
|   79 |                  | Gurugram       |
|   80 |                  | Faridabad      |
|   81 |                  | Panipat        |
|   82 |                  | Ambala UA      |
|   83 |                  | Hisar          |
|   84 |                  | Rohtak         |
|   85 |                  | Karnal         |
|   86 |                  | Sonipat        |
|   87 |                  | Bahadurgarh    |
|   88 |                  | Sirsa          |
|   89 |                  | Yamunanagar    |
|   90 |                  | Thanesar       |
|   91 |                  | Panchkula      |
|   92 | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla         |
|   93 | Himachal Pradesh | Jammu          |
|   94 | Jammu & Kashmir  | Srinagar       |
|   95 | Jammu & Kashmir  | Samba          |

|   96 |                | Kathua         |
|------|----------------|----------------|
|   97 |                | Udhampur       |
|   98 |                | Akhnoor        |
|   99 |                | Kupwara        |
|  100 |                | Lakhanpur      |
|  101 |                | Khour          |
|  102 |                | Ranchi         |
|  103 | Jharkhand      | Jamshedpur     |
|  104 |                | Dhanbad        |
|  105 |                | Bangalore      |
|  106 |                | Mysore         |
|  107 |                | Hubli          |
|  108 |                | Mangalore      |
|  109 |                | Belgaum        |
|  110 |                | Gulbarga       |
|  111 |                | Davanagere     |
|  112 |                | Bijapur        |
|  113 |                | Tumkur         |
|  114 |                | Bellary        |
|  115 | Karnataka      | Shimoga        |
|  116 |                | Udupi          |
|  117 |                | Bidar          |
|  118 |                | Hassan         |
|  119 |                | Hospet         |
|  120 |                | Gadag-Betigeri |
|  121 |                | Chitradurga    |
|  122 |                | Mandya         |
|  123 |                | Bagalkot       |
|  124 |                | Chikmagalur    |
|  125 |                | Dharwad        |
|  126 |                | Manipal        |
|  127 | Kerala         | Kochi          |
|  128 |                | Trivandrum     |
|  129 |                | Kozhikode      |
|  130 |                | Malappuram     |
|  131 |                | Thrissur       |
|  132 |                | Kollam         |
|  133 |                | Palakkad       |
|  134 |                | Kottayam       |
|  135 |                | Kannur         |
|  136 |                | Cherthala      |
|  137 |                | Guruvayoor     |
|  138 |                | Alappuzha      |
|  139 |                | Indore         |
|  140 |                | Bhopal         |
|  141 | Madhya Pradesh | Gwalior        |
|  142 |                | Jabalpur       |
|  143 |                | Ujjain         |
|  144 |                | Pune           |
|  145 |                | Nashik         |
|  146 | Maharashtra    | Aurangabad     |

| 147   |            | Nagpur          |
|-------|------------|-----------------|
| 148   |            | Ahmadnagar      |
| 149   |            | Solapur         |
| 150   |            | Amravati        |
| 151   |            | Kolhapur        |
| 152   |            | Nanded-Waghala  |
| 153   |            | Sangli          |
| 154   |            | Latur           |
| 155   |            | Jalgaon         |
| 156   |            | Mumbai          |
| 157   | Manipur    | Imphal          |
| 158   | Meghalaya  | Shillong        |
| 159   | Mizoram    | Aizawl          |
| 160   | Mizoram    | Dimapur         |
| 161   | Mizoram    | Kohima          |
| 162   | Mizoram    | Bhubaneswar     |
| 163   | Mizoram    | Cuttack         |
| 164   | Mizoram    | Raurkela        |
| 165   | Mizoram    | Brahmapur       |
| 166   | Mizoram    | Sambalpur       |
| 167   | Odisha     | Puri            |
| 168   | Mizoram    | Baleshwar       |
| 169   | Mizoram    | Baripada        |
| 170   | Mizoram    | Bhadrak         |
| 171   | Mizoram    | Jharsuguda      |
| 172   | Mizoram    | Nalco           |
| 173   | Mizoram    | Balangir        |
| 174   | Punjab     | Ludhiana        |
| 175   | Punjab     | Amritsar        |
| 176   | Punjab     | Jalandhar       |
| 177   | Punjab     | Phagwara        |
| 178   | Punjab     | Mohali          |
| 179   | Punjab     | Zirakpur        |
| 180   | Punjab     | Kharar          |
| 181   | Punjab     | Derabassi       |
| 182   | Rajasthan  | Jaipur          |
| 183   |            | Jodhpur         |
| 184   |            | Udaipur         |
| 185   |            | Nathdwara       |
| 186   |            | Kota            |
| 187   |            | Ajmer           |
| 188   |            | Bikaner         |
| 189   |            | Chennai         |
| 190   |            | Coimbatore      |
| 191   |            | Madurai         |
| 192   |            | Salem           |
| 193   | Tamil Nadu | Tiruchirappalli |
| 194   |            | Tiruppur        |
| 195   |            | Vellore         |
| 196   |            | Hosur           |
|       |            | Pondicherry     |
| 197   |            |                 |

| 198   |                   | Erode          |
|-------|-------------------|----------------|
| 199   |                   | Thoothukkudi   |
| 200   |                   | Thanjavur      |
| 201   |                   | Nagercoil      |
| 202   |                   | Kancheepuram   |
| 203   |                   | Dindigul       |
| 204   |                   | Karur          |
| 205   |                   | Kumbakonam     |
| 206   |                   | Tiruvannamalai |
| 207   |                   | Cuddalore      |
| 208   |                   | Dharmapuri     |
| 209   | Telangana Tripura | Hyderabad      |
| 210   | Telangana Tripura | Warangal       |
| 211   | Telangana Tripura | Karimnagar     |
| 212   | Telangana Tripura | Nizamabad      |
| 213   | Telangana Tripura | Khammam        |
| 214   | Telangana Tripura | Mahbubnagar    |
| 215   | Telangana Tripura | Ramagundam     |
| 216   | Telangana Tripura | Adilabad       |
| 217   | Telangana Tripura | Nalgonda       |
| 218   |                   | Agartala       |
| 219   |                   | Ghaziabad      |
| 220   |                   | Noida          |
| 221   |                   | Varanasi       |
| 222   |                   | Lucknow        |
| 223   |                   | Kanpur         |
| 224   |                   | Prayagraj      |
| 225   |                   | Jhansi         |
| 226   | Uttar Pradesh     | Agra           |
| 227   |                   | Meerut         |
| 228   |                   | Bareilly       |
| 229   |                   | Aligarh        |
| 230   |                   | Moradabad      |
| 231   |                   | Mathura        |
| 232   |                   | Saharanpur     |
| 233   |                   | Gorakhpur      |
| 234   | Uttarakhand       | Dehradun       |
| 235   |                   | Kolkata        |
| 236   | West Bengal       | Siliguri       |
| 237   | West Bengal       | Durgapur       |
| 238   | West Bengal       | Asansol        |
|       | West Bengal       |                |

## Annexure-II

Annexure referred to in part (c) & (d) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 978 to be answered on 08.02.2023

## District-wise  details  of  the  rural  areas  of  Jharkhand  which  are  still  not  covered  by internet services:

| S.No   | District            |   Number of Uncovered villages |
|--------|---------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1      | Bokaro              |                             26 |
| 2      | Chatra              |                            155 |
| 3      | Deoghar             |                             32 |
| 4      | Dhanbad             |                              1 |
| 5      | Dumka               |                            110 |
| 6      | Garhwa              |                             24 |
| 7      | Giridih             |                              2 |
| 8      | Godda               |                             26 |
| 9      | Gumla               |                             84 |
| 10     | Hazaribag           |                              1 |
| 11     | Hazaribagh          |                             27 |
| 12     | Jamtara             |                              1 |
| 13     | Khunti              |                             69 |
| 14     | Kodarma             |                             28 |
| 15     | Koderma             |                              1 |
| 16     | Latehar             |                             52 |
| 17     | Lohardaga           |                             16 |
| 18     | Pakur               |                              4 |
| 19     | Palamu              |                            129 |
| 20     | Pashchimi Singhbhum |                             63 |
| 21     | Purbi Singhbhum     |                            279 |
| 22     | Ramgarh             |                             18 |
| 23     | Ranchi              |                              4 |
| 24     | Sahibganj           |                             75 |
| 25     | Saraikela-Kharsawan |                             33 |
| 26     | Simdega             |                            107 |
| Total  | Total               |                           1367 |

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