PM Modi addressed the people after inaugurating IMC 2023. Regarding 5G, he said that the average broadband speed increased almost three times last year. India was ranked 118th for a long time in terms of global internet speed, now it is closer to 40 due to 5G rollout. He said that within a year of the rollout of 5G, it has more than 4 lakh base stations and is covering 80 percent of the population with 97 percent subscribers.
He said that India is preparing to become a global leader in 6G technology. While talking about the importance given by the government to the startup ecosystem, he said that while in 2014 there were around a few hundred startups in the country, today this number has gone up to more than a lakh. He told that India is one of the top 3 startup ecosystems in the world.
PM Modi also mentioned Made-in-India and said that Google will make its Pixel devices in India and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and iPhone 15 have already started being made in India. Soon the world will use made-in-India phones. Apart from this, he also told that before 2014, India was a mobile phone importer, but now it has also become an exporter. India is now the world’s second largest mobile manufacturer and exports electronics worth Rs 2 lakh crore.
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