\"<p>Gopal
Gopal Vittal, Managing Director (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>With the launch of 5G<\/a> at a breakneck speed, the telecom industry<\/a> is ready to offer services but the challenge remains with the lack of devices and relevant applications, Gopal Vittal, Managing Director (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel<\/a> said.

“5G is unlike 4G technology. 5G is really a supercomputer. It's a supercomputer on earth, but connected to the cloud. The industry is doing its best to roll out a massive amount of supercomputers. But what's happening is the applications that need to be written on the supercomputer to use the supercomputer are still few and far between,” Vittal told ET in an interview.

“The industry is ready because the rollout of the supercomputers at such a frantic pace, that actually what you need is more devices, more applications and that's the challenge that we need to confront for the whole ecosystem,” he said referring to the lack of commercial 5G use cases and monetisation for 5G in the country.

\"We have demonstrated a number of use cases, for example, one of our customers on their assembly lines is actually processing a defective part on a real time basis, and taking that out from the assembly line through the power of a 5G network. Another example is for Apollo which is using 5G for colonoscopy. Some of these use cases are happening. But are these developing on a commercial scale? The answer is no,\" Vittal said.

Bharti Airtel and
Reliance Jio<\/a> have been aggressively launching 5G across various cities in the country. But lack of use cases in 5G has become a hurdle.Most of the use cases are still not commercially relevant and at a scale that can really drive the industry forward.

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Is the industry doing enough to create 5G use cases in India?<\/a><\/h2>

However, experts feel that telcos need to work closely with enterprises, startups, and other stakeholders to come up with 5G use cases to properly leverage the potential of the high-speed technology. They added there will be a need to form deep partnerships with various industries to come up with use cases that are specific to the Indian requirements.<\/p><\/div>

\"&lt;p&gt;Gopal
Gopal Vittal, Managing Director (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>With the launch of 5G<\/a> at a breakneck speed, the telecom industry<\/a> is ready to offer services but the challenge remains with the lack of devices and relevant applications, Gopal Vittal, Managing Director (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel<\/a> said.

“5G is unlike 4G technology. 5G is really a supercomputer. It's a supercomputer on earth, but connected to the cloud. The industry is doing its best to roll out a massive amount of supercomputers. But what's happening is the applications that need to be written on the supercomputer to use the supercomputer are still few and far between,” Vittal told ET in an interview.

“The industry is ready because the rollout of the supercomputers at such a frantic pace, that actually what you need is more devices, more applications and that's the challenge that we need to confront for the whole ecosystem,” he said referring to the lack of commercial 5G use cases and monetisation for 5G in the country.

\"We have demonstrated a number of use cases, for example, one of our customers on their assembly lines is actually processing a defective part on a real time basis, and taking that out from the assembly line through the power of a 5G network. Another example is for Apollo which is using 5G for colonoscopy. Some of these use cases are happening. But are these developing on a commercial scale? The answer is no,\" Vittal said.

Bharti Airtel and
Reliance Jio<\/a> have been aggressively launching 5G across various cities in the country. But lack of use cases in 5G has become a hurdle.Most of the use cases are still not commercially relevant and at a scale that can really drive the industry forward.

\"Is<\/a><\/figure>

Is the industry doing enough to create 5G use cases in India?<\/a><\/h2>

However, experts feel that telcos need to work closely with enterprises, startups, and other stakeholders to come up with 5G use cases to properly leverage the potential of the high-speed technology. They added there will be a need to form deep partnerships with various industries to come up with use cases that are specific to the Indian requirements.<\/p><\/div>