Adoption of 5Gi - What Is The Biggest Challenge?
India’s 5Gi standard, developed outside 3GPP, faces major challenges due to lack of coordination with global 5G evolution. Continuous compatibility work raises costs, making integration with 5G crucial for adoption and sustainability.
Sometimes in the past, I had written a note titled "India's 5G Technology - Opportunities and Challenges". The idea was to provide a complete background that led to the development of 5Gi and how its identification as the IMT 2020 standard was just the beginning of a long and tenuous process forward. The current note focuses on the biggest challenge that 5Gi will face while it juggles its way forward towards acceptance and adoption. And to make the argument simple and easy I have kept the note as short as possible.
5Gi Lacks Coordination with 5G
In order to appreciate this challenge, one needs to understand what 5Gi is all about. It is nothing for a tweaked version (small incremental changes only) of 5G technology and is maintained and supported outside 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project). Why? As 5Gi is not blessed and supported by 3GPP - it has been independently developed by TSDSI by borrowing 3GPP specifications, and therefore any development of the two (5G & 5Gi) into newer versions is totally uncoordinated and random.
5Gi Needs Unquantifiable Perpetual Work
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