C-DOT emerges as govt's biggest bet for India's ongoing 5G rollout

The body's latest achievement is designing a fully indigenous non-standalone 5G core in record time

After decades of relative obscurity as an autonomous body of the Department of Telecommunications, the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) has emerged as the government’s biggest bet for India’s ongoing 5G rollout. 

C-DOT has been in the news for creating a full stack of sophisticated 5G equipment completely indigenously and at a fraction of the budget of global competitors such as Huawei, in less than two years. The Centre is now getting special support from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Officials say that the Department of Space, the home ministry and other key ministries plan to leverage its capabilities