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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has completed the rollout of 1,00,000 4G sites for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and the adjacent signifier of the 4G web saturation enlargement activities and the required backing person to beryllium decided by the telecom work provider, TCS officials told The Hindu connected Monday (November 10, 2025).
“TCS has deployed 100,000 4G sites mostly focusing connected saturation sites, connecting the unconnected, distant and antecedently unreached areas utilizing indigenous technology,” said Saurabh Mittal, Chief Product Officer, Core Technologies, TCS.
Radhakant Das, Chief Technology Officer-Network Solutions and Services, TCS, said the task was present successful the “operation transition” phase. The archetypal bid has been delivered connected time, the process of operational stabilisation is presently underway, helium added.
According to these officials, who spoke connected the sidelines of IEEE organised Future Networks World Forum-2025 here, portion the archetypal signifier is mostly done, aboriginal expansions hinge connected decisions from BSNL.
“We volition hold for the carer to travel back” regarding consequent orders and fund allocations, Mr. Das said, indicating that the adjacent signifier of enactment would beryllium portion of a abstracted deal with a antithetic budget.
The contractual deadline, of the archetypal implicit ₹20,000 crore BSNL task bagged by TCS, for the afloat installation commissioning was acceptable for June 2025.
Under this project, the BSNL 4G rollout was strategically targeted astatine saturation sites successful distant and difficult-to-reach areas, Mr. Das said responding to a query adding, these included regions successful Chhattisgarh, the Northeast, Ladakh, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which antecedently had lone 2G connectivity oregon nary mobile towers were contiguous astatine all.
On the logic down deploying 4G, the TCS executives said, 5G devices were expensive and person inactive lone 20-25% penetration successful India portion 4G provided a indispensable and contiguous connectivity solution for the masses.
According to Mr. Mittal, BSNL’s 4G sites are upgradable to 5G, if the bearer wants to. The standards for 6G volition look by 2029 and the commercialized rotation retired of 6G volition lone hap in 2030. Quoting Union Communication Minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia, he said, “India is starring planetary discussions connected 6G standardisation today, a determination from being a follower successful 4G, marching successful 5G to a person successful 6G.”
