The Healthcare industry gears up as hopes awaken. Amidst the pandemic, Vodafone spreads relief. The Telcos partners with Ericsson to showcase the potential benefits of 5G in healthcare. The duo has collaborated to take on 5G trials as part of the internet revolution in India.

Why The Healthcare Industry?

The main intention behind the continued efforts of the Vodafone-Ericsson collaboration is to bring forth the best options to the rural areas of India with the help of advanced 5G internet technology. And how are they expecting to do this? The partnership will be infusing 5G technology into the medical industry to meet the demands of the rural population of the country, who are in severe lack of proper medical attention and life-sustaining facilities.

Highlight Of The Experimental Trial

Technological revolutions have brought forth incredible advancements. The low latency, high data speed, and reliability of 5G will enable medical professionals situated in hospitals in Urban regions to conduct ultrasound scans for needy patients in rural areas. This will be an incredible feat if successful. And it is sure to pave the way for a new revolution in the history of medical science in the whole world.

With the lockdowns and new variants of Covid-19 spreading across the globe, this will indeed be a significant milestone as it would tackle the ever-growing challenges in rural medical facilities.

Not only will the rural areas benefit, but the digitalisation of the medical industry is also going to grow immensely with such systems in place. There will be less loss of danger to life as India will have in place a sound medical system that overcomes boundaries of location and distance.

Vi has developed a 5G ready network that builds on India’s fastest Vi GIGAnet network verified by Ookla. With our 5G trials now, we are leveraging the power of 5G to provide healthcare access to remote parts of the country, amongst a range of other use cases for enterprises and consumers. Speed and latency are critical to 5G services, and therefore, our focus has been to achieve throughputs which can effectively enable relevant 5G use cases for the Digital India of tomorrow,” said Jagbir Singh, CTO, Vodafone-Idea.

Enhanced mobile broadband and Fixed Wireless Access are expected to be the early use-cases for 5G in India. Over time, we expect more enterprise-related use cases to come up leveraging the benefits of 5G in sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, education etc. The flexible Dual Mode Core set by Ericsson with Vi in Pune is helping enterprises leverage the network to deploy use cases like Remote video monitoring, Telemedicine, Digital twin, AR/VR etc during the ongoing trials.” states Amarjeet Singh, vice president, Ericsson.

The 5G business revenue across 10 industries is estimated to be $17 billion by 2030, according to Ericsson’s 5G Business Compass report. Vodafone 5G trials in Pune currently uses a 3.5 GHz mid-band and 26 GHz mm-Wave band in collaboration with Ericsson Radios and Ericsson Dual Mode Core.