Even as lakhs of 5G base stations around the country lie unused, the telecom industry is laying the groundwork to secure for itself more spectrum in the 6 gigahertz (GHz) band, a demand that will play out over the coming years and pit telecom operators against technology firms.
The latter argue, as The Hindu had reported , that spectrum in the 6GHz should be freed up for Wi-Fi, as current technologies — which largely run on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies — can get clogged by a huge number of devices in use, even if the data usage by connected devices was not that high. Wi-Fi on 6GHz does not face this problem.