Lok Sabha Question No. 1351 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-14
Subject: 5G Service
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Devendra (Alias) Bhole Singh Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1351 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14 TH  DECEMBER, 2022

## 5G SERVICE

## †1351. SHRI DEVENDRA SINGH BHOLE:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the States in which recently launched 5G service has been rolled out;
- (b) the States in which the said services are proposed to be rolled out during the next financial year; and
- (c) the district-wise details of the States where 5G service has been rolled out so far?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c) Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) have started providing 5G services in the country from 01.10.2022 onwards and as of 26.11.2022, 5G services have started in 50 towns distributed over 14 States/UTs. (Annexure).

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).

Annexure referred to in part (a) to (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1351 to be answered on 14 th December 2022

State/UT-wise list of towns where 5G services have started as on 26.11.2022:

| S. No.   | State/UT       | Town          |
|----------|----------------|---------------|
| 1        | Delhi          | Delhi         |
|          |                | Mumbai        |
| 2        | Maharashtra    | Nagpur        |
|          |                | Pune          |
|          | West Bengal    |               |
| 3        |                | Kolkata       |
|          |                | Siliguri      |
|          | Uttar Pradesh  | Varanasi      |
| 4        |                | Lucknow       |
| 5        | Tamilnadu      | Chennai       |
| 6        | Karnataka      | Bangalore     |
| 7        | Telengana      | Hyderabad     |
| 8        | Rajasthan      | Jaipur        |
| 9        | Haryana        | Panipat       |
| 10       | Assam          | Guwahati      |
| 11       | Kerala         | Kochi         |
| 12       | Bihar          | Patna         |
| 13       | Andhra Pradesh | Visakhapatnam |
|          |                | Ahmedabad     |
|          |                | Gandhinagar   |
|          |                | Bhavnagar     |
|          |                | Mehsana       |
|          |                | Rajkot        |
|          |                | Surat         |
|          |                | Vadodara      |
|          |                | Amreli        |
|          |                | Botad         |
|          |                | Junagadh      |
|          |                | Porbandar     |
|          |                | Veraval       |
|          |                | Himatnagar    |
|          |                | Modasa        |
|          |                | Palanpur      |
|          |                | Patan         |
| 14       | Gujarat        | Bhuj          |
|          |                | Jamnagar      |
|          |                | Khambhalia    |
|          |                | Morvi Wadhwan |
|          |                | AHWA          |
|          |                | Bharuch       |
|          |                | Navsari       |
|          |                | Rajpipla      |
|          |                | Valsad        |
|          |                | Vyara         |
|          |                | Anand         |
|          |                | Chota Udaipur |
|          |                | Dohad         |
|          |                | Godhra        |
|          |                | Lunawada      |
|          |                | Nadiad        |

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