This means that literally every single village in India will have at least one Wi-Fi hotspot. If we ever want to take 5G to the villages without fibre, none of this will happen. While Bharat Net has focused on rural India, in the new policy we also want to focus on fibreisation in urban India. We will have to benchmark how much fibre we are putting in every day to achieve 4G and 5G. The most recent being in September 2017, saying that this whole structure needs to be relooked at, because it's fairly high.

Source: Economic Times January 19, 2018 05:37 UTC