The foundation for roll-out of private 5G in India has been laid as five companies have applied to the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for a total of twenty Captive Non-Public Network (CNPN) licenses. The companies are Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, and Aditya Birla Group. The source also confirmed completion of the DoT’s internal CNPN license and spectrum demand study. This means a decision on what spectrum to allocate to the private enterprise license applicants has been made, and those companies will soon be able to move forward with deployment plans. As in some other countries, the topic of private networks has attracted controversy in India. The main parties of the debate are the mobile network operators (MNOs), mainly…