Department of Telecommunications (DoT) created a house panel of 5G experts by inaugurating a 12-week online certificate course to prepare and ensure its authorities on the Fifth generation technology.

Ministry of Communications states, the 36-hour certificate course on 5G has been made available to Officers of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) with the first batch starting from 9th March 2021, which later on, would be offered to other stakeholders also.

Telecom secretary Anshu Prakash launched the online 5G certification course Tuesday, states, the objective is To have a team of master trainers, 5G security experts within the DoT who would formulate a roadmap for reinforcing education and awareness levels about 5G and also identify gaps in existing legislations with the upcoming next-gen fast broadband technology.

Anshu states, “This course would act as a capsule programme for learning overall 5G technology from the perspective of Policy making." Secretary of Telecom highlighted the importance of exploiting the potential of 5G to the full and making possibilities like Machine-to-Machine Communications, Internet of Things a reality.

National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation & Training (NTIPRIT) will conduct the online 5G certification course for DoT staff.To exploit the full potential of 5G and making new-age technologies such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, Internet of things (IoT) a reality, Anshu, called on NTIPRIT to come up with such training programmes for officers of other government departments and central ministries.

5G certification course will initially be available only to DoT employees; it will eventually be offered to other stakeholders too.

Bharat Kumar Jog, member (services), Digital Communications Commission, who was present at the inauguration, stressed on design, development and conduction of similar capacity-building programmes on 5G use cases for other central and state government officials.