State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will upgrade all its 4G towers to 5G within the next six to eight months, as part of India’s broader push to develop a homegrown telecom ecosystem, Union communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.

Speaking at the fourth Kautilya Economic Conclave here, Scindia said BSNL’s fully indigenous 4G stack—developed by C-DOT, Tejas Networks and Tata Consultancy Services — has placed India among a select group of five countries capable of delivering an end-to-end homegrown telecom solution.

“When BSNL advanced down the route of executing on 4G, there was a difficult decision to make. The easy path was to buy equipment from foreign vendors which are only four in the world; the difficult path was to invent our own 4G stack,” the

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