<span style="color: #222222;">Minister for Communications and Electronics and Information and Technology Ashwini Vaishnav today said in the Lok Sabha that the procurement for 5G services is being done through trusted sources. He refused to take the name of any company. He was replying to a question of Manish Tewari of Congress, who asked whether Huawei was asked to be a part of the 5G trial in India and whether the government has refused a permit.<br />''<br />''Mr Vaishnav said, Spectrum for 5G technology trial has been assigned to various telecom service providers as per their request for their desired locations in the country. The Minister said, these locations include urban, semi-urban and rural areas in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab Licensed Service Areas.<br />''<br />''In reply to another question, the Minister said, there is no proposal to provide free 4G mobile services across any of the states of the country.</span><br />
News On AIR | December 8, 2021 1:50 PM
Communications Minister says procurement for 5G services is being done through trusted sources