Adani Group forays into industrial 5G segment – Times of India

Ahmedabad: adani Digital Connectivity Solutions arm of Data Networks Limited (ADNL), Adani Groupannounced in its regulatory filing on Tuesday that it has acquired the right to use 400 MHz of spectrum in the 26 GHz mm wave band.
ADNL, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited, secured spectrum for a period of 20 years in the first 5G spectrum auction conducted by the Department of Telecommunications, Central Government.
According to the company, the newly acquired 5G spectrum is expected to help create an integrated digital platform, which will accelerate the pace and scale of digitization of Adani Group’s own core infrastructure, primary industry and business-to-consumer (B2C) business portfolio. .
“The Group’s entry into the industrial 5G space will allow our portfolio companies to introduce a set of new add on services that will help capitalize on all the other digital segments we are building.
Our portfolio is a highly distributed asset-intensive investment that is revolutionizing censorization and rapidly becoming IoT enabled. Therefore, we believe that the next data boom will be created more by machines than people as all the devices are interconnected,” said the group chairman, Gautam Adani,
The group’s broad strategy to digitally integrate its current and future businesses includes connecting its data centers via a network of submarine and terrestrial cables, creating the largest industrial operations cloud in the world, and providing a host of services across its consumer base. To offer the suite includes developing super apps. 400 million, and the establishment of an AI Center of Excellence.
“Data will need to be streamed, stored, processed and analyzed by other machines in real time and this capability will transform every single industry. This will help create a set of services that the market today cannot even fully conceptualise. This volume will be exponentially more and will be generated at the edges, especially in a country like India, where the fastest all-round growth is happening in Tier-II and III cities,” Adani added.