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DoT announces launch of the 5G Innovation Hackathon 2025

17Mar

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DoT announces launch of the 5G Innovation Hackathon 2025

New Delhi, March 17, 2025.The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has announced the 5G Innovation Hackathon 2025, a six-month initiative aimed at accelerating the development of innovative 5G-powered solutions to address societal and industrial challenges. Open to students, startups, and professionals, the programme provides mentorship, funding, and access to over 100 5G Use Case Labs, enabling participants to transform visionary ideas into scalable technologies.The hackathon invites proposals focused on key 5G applications such as AI-driven network maintenance, IoT-enabled solutions, 5G broadcasting, smart health, agriculture, industrial automation, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), D2M, V2X, and quantum communication. Participants are encouraged to leverage 5G features like...

DoT in first-of-its-kind initiative brings together 15 startups, academia on “Telecom Design Collaboration Sprint”

10May

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DoT in first-of-its-kind initiative brings together 15 startups, academia on “Telecom Design Collaboration Sprint”

New Delhi, May 10, 2024.In a novel initiative, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) brought together start-ups/MSMEs, academia and research institutions under the "Telecom Design Collaboration Sprint". This Sprint was organised by DoT at IIIT, Bangalore. Fifteen leading startups/MSME in the Radio Access Network (RAN), Core ecosystems, esteemed institutions such as IIT Madras, C-DOT, IIT Delhi and other network entities participated.This collaboration engaged in deep-Tech rapid ideation and innovative solution towards developing a comprehensive and future-ready telecom stack encompassing comprehensive 5G solution and setting the stage for future advancements to 6G. The Sprint was driven by three primary objectives:Leveraging Collective Strengths: The Sprint enabled startu...

DoT asks telecom operators to block malicious overseas calls about Indian bourses

4Jan

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DoT asks telecom operators to block malicious overseas calls about Indian bourses

New Delhi, January 04, 2024.The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has cautioned the public about malicious calls from international numbers spreading false information about Indian stock exchanges, and advised people to report such cases to telecom operators.Such malicious calls are initiated by anti-national elements and are aimed at creating panic, an official release said, adding that the telecom operators have been directed to block malicious calls from such numbers.