"Rollout In 2030, A Sensing Network": Sunil Mittal To NDTV On 6G

It's 2026. Four years from now, in 2030, India will be ready to roll out 6G, telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal told NDTV on its flagship Walk The Talk show.

Mittal, the founder of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom service provider, says that India's 6G race will depend on its ability to monetise existing 5G networks.6G, the sixth generation cellular network that would operate in untapped radio frequencies and use cognitive technologies like AI to enable communication multiple times faster than the existing 5G network, is expected to be significantly faster, and have lower latency."I think 6G conversation has started. Sometimes too, I would say for the telecom operators too soon because you have not even monetised your massive investments of spectrum and capital investment of a lakhs of crores or more on 5G.

Spectrum alone was a lakhs of crores. Networks are probably lakh and a half crores by now and continuously being invested," Mittal, who started out selling bicycle components in Ludhiana, told NDTV's Editor-in-Chief and CEO Rahul Kanwal.