New Delhi, April 9 -- Union Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya M Scindia, stated that India will have more than a billion users of 5G by the year 2030. Speaking at AIMA's 11th National Leadership Conclave, the Minister highlighted that India became the second-largest mobile phone producer globally.

"India had the fastest 5G rollout in the world. 500,000 towers, Rs 450,000 crore worth of capex. In a short period of four years, 400 million consumers. And our 5G consumers will go from 400 million to over a billion by 2030," the Minister said.

"And that's why I say we followed the world on 4G. We marched with the world on 5G. But we will lead the world in 6G. Similarly, the case with our DPI infrastructure, our United Payments Interfa...