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India aims to lead 6G race, global design tech standards: Union Communications Minister
Sep-11-2026

The Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that India aims to lead the world in the upcoming sixth-generation mobile technology and become a designer of global technology standards. Assuring India will lead the 6G race, he noted that the country had lagged the world on 4G but marched with the world on 5G and would lead the world on the sixth-generation mobile communication technology.

He highlighted the paradigm shift in India, from being a market for technology to becoming a technology maker. He added that India's 6G mission had already started and the Bharat 6G Alliance was working towards contributing to global standards. Underscoring India's progress in telecom connectivity, he said that the country now had 5G capability across 99.9% of its districts, covering 85% of the population, with more than 500,000 5G Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) and capital expenditure of over Rs 4.5 lakh crore. Also, the country had become the ‘cheapest data capital of the world’, with data costs falling from Rs 287 per gigabyte (GB) to Rs 9 per GB.

Emphasizing the significance of digital infrastructure, Scindia said that the country's digital infrastructure was driving the growth of fintech, with the mobile phone becoming ‘the new bank branch’ and the telecom network becoming ‘the new financial highway’. He added that the next leap in fintech would be from connecting people to platforms to connecting intelligence with opportunity, with convergence between 5G, BharatNet, Aadhaar, UPI, fintech and AI. Besides, he stressed the need for greater digital security, saying the shift should be from detecting fraud after it happens to preventing it by anticipating risks before money leaves an account.

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