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Foreign investment will come readily if the supply chain already exists, says Maruti Suzuki chairman
CNG, ethanol, bio gas could offer cheaper alternatives to EVs in the market for small cars
The company must overcome poor technology decisions imposed on it and bridge the gap with private sector competitors
PSMC is one among several global fab companies interested in taking advantage of the government's incentives to set up semiconductor units in the country.
Asks them to strengthen supply chain, increase value additions
The US has been pressing its allies to ban Chinese equipments from their mobile networks. Indian telcos have also joined them. Why are they building a China-free wireless infra?
The capacities committed will come from companies eligible for PLI as well as other players; the largest capacity currently from a single company would be 20 GWh
The top 10 cities will have some - not total - coverage by then
The E band was recently offered by the DoT for 5G backhaul to operators in the interim at an administrative price, pending a final decision on how it will be allocated
Taiwan has a dominant position in manufacturing cutting-edge logic chips also
Telecom firms and others are concerned that such a move could stymie the effort to build affordable 5G phones in the sub-Rs 10,000 category
Now that the bidding for spectrum is over, the next big battle lies in standalone versus non-standalone networks
Investment in fiberisation of towers etc could hit anything between Rs 5 trn-Rs 7 trn by 2025, says an industry body
Rajen Vagadia, president of Qualcomm India & SAARC, describes how the 5G ecosystem and consumer case uses across brands will evolve
Operators want eSIMS to be made mandatory while phone makers say this will push up costs
It is also working with OEMs to provide software upgrades to existing 5G phones powered by their chips to make them SA enabled
While discussions on the strategy are on, there's a growing consensus within the government that the lower end of the market should be reserved only for the domestic players
Asks them to increase mobile subscriber base to 200 million
Whether Reliance Jio can change the rules of the 5G game, just as it did with 4G services, therefore, remains the key question still
In its first year, the PLI scheme for IT hardware did not perform according to expectations