<span style="color: #222222;">Minister of State for Communications  Devusinh Chauhan has said that 5G services have been started in 238 cities distributed across all licensed service areas till January this year.<br />''<br />''In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the Minister said that telecom  Service Providers have started providing 5G services in the country from the 1st of October last year. He said, the Government has established a road map to make 5G services available in different parts of the country through rollout obligations. The Minister informed that as per the Notice Inviting Application for the 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. He added that further expansion of mobile networks beyond the mandatory rollout obligations depends on the techno-commercial consideration of the Telecom Service Providers.</span><br />