Nokia announced a partnership with the Ahmedabad-based Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) to set up a Nokia Center of Excellence (CoE) for fifth-generation (5G) skills development at Gujarat’s ITI Kubernagar. Kaushalya – University of Art. According to the company, the center of excellence has a skills laboratory that trains candidates in 5G technology skills, with the aim of placing at least 70 per cent of students in new jobs within 4-6 weeks after the end of the course. He added that about 300 such candidates will benefit from the program in the first year of the project.

“Nokia is at the forefront of leading innovation in telecom technologies, and we are investing to develop a pool of technically skilled manpower to help build the 5G ecosystem,” said Amit Marwah, Nokia India’s CMO.

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program in India, the company stated that it will invest in the five labs in the CoE, including infrastructure, equipment, and training.

According to Arvind Bali, CEO of TSSC, “the unveiling of our state-of-the-art CoE with 5G, IoT, advanced security surveillance, line assembler, and advanced mobile repair labs, represents a significant milestone in our organization’s commitment to skilling youth in India in emerging telecom job roles.”

According to recruiters, 5G technology will boost recruitment in the telecom sector this year. According to a report published in January by the staffing company NLB Services, the demand for technology experts in telecommunications and related sectors will grow by 25-30% in the coming year, compared to 15-20% last year. Implementation of 5G services.

A TSSC report published in May estimated that India needs at least 22 million skilled workers by 2025 to benefit from 5G, but the gap between supply and demand is 28 per cent.

Meanwhile, Nokia’s MBiT Index report published in February, said that consumption of 5G data is expected to start on a mass scale only by the second half of this year, thereby contributing to a rise in the average consumption of mobile data among users every month.

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The company estimates that by the end of 2024, there will be 990 million, or nearly a billion, mobile data users in India, of which more than 15%, or about 150 million users, would be on nationwide 5G networks.

There are currently around 730 million active 4G mobile phones in India, of which around 11% or 85 million are active 5G devices. Experts believe that number will grow by 62 per cent annually due to higher shipments of 5G devices this year.

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