Lok Sabha Question No. 5516 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-04-05
Subject: 5G Services
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Kotha Prabhakar  Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5516 TO BE ANSWERED ON 5 TH  APRIL, 2023

## 5G SERVICES

## 5516.  SHRI KOTHA PRABHAKAR REDDY:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the difference between 5G and earlier technology and the business done in 2G/3G/4G/5G services;
- (b) the income earned by the Government and private companies from such services including the selling of mobiles from the services launched till now; and
- (c) the details and response received in this regard?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The difference between 5G and earlier technology and the business done in 2G/3G/4G/5G services is at Annexure .
- (b) & (c) The  income  earned  from  operation  by  major  Telecom  companies  is  tabulated  as below:

## (Rupees in Cr)

| Name of Companies/FYs   |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 |
|-------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Airtel                  |     53663 |     49606 |     54317 |     64326 |     70642 |
| Reliance Jio            |     20154 |     38838 |     54316 |     69888 |     76977 |
| Vodafone Idea           |     65087 |     49902 |     44715 |     41673 |     38221 |
| BSNL                    |     22668 |     17761 |     17886 |     17452 |     16809 |
| TTSL                    |      5156 |      2837 |      1851 |      1605 |      1662 |
| TTML                    |      1869 |      1277 |      1078 |      1044 |      1094 |

## ANNEXURE

## Annexure to reply given in part-(a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 5516 for answer on 05.04.2023

|   Sr. No. | Parameter(s)                   | Initial Generations                                                   | GSM(Global System for Mobile communication)/ CDMA(Code Division Multiple Access) commonly known as Second Generation (2G)                                           | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)/ International Mobile Telecommunication(IMT)- 2000 commonly known as Third Generation (3G)   | LTE (Long Term Evolution)/ IMT- Advanced commonly known as Fourth Generation (4G)   | IMT-2020 commonly known as Fifth Generation (5G)                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|-----------|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Services offered/Business done | Primarily used for introduction of mobility for analog voice services | Initially used for introduction of digital voice service and SMS (Short Messaging Service). Subsequent versions offeredMMS (Multi-Media Service) and data services. | Used for offering faster data transfer rates compared to 2G systems and better voice quality.                                                  | Used for providing mobile broadband and Internet Protocol based voice services.     | Used for offering enhanced Mobile Broad Band (eMBB) services, ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (uRLLC) for mission- critical applications, and the massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) for massive IoT (Internet of Things) applications. |
|         2 | Peak data rate                 | Not Applicable                                                        | GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) - few kilobits per second (kbit/s) EDGE (Enhanced Data rates over GSM Evolution) -few hundreds of kbit/s.                       | The systems offered few Megabits per second (Mbps).                                                                                            | The systems offered 100Mbps to 1 Gbps depending upon user mobility.                 | Downlink peak data rate of 20 Gigabits per second(Gbit/s), Uplink peak data rate of 10 Gbit/s.                                                                                                                                                           |

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