India, March 19 -- The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched the 5G Innovation Hackathon 2025. It is a six-month programme of the telecom department that would be used to create innovative prototypes based on 5G technology. The participants in the hackathons would be motivated to employ various 5G technologies including 5G network slicing, call flow scenarios, and so forth for solving the actual real-world issues faced by the customers. DoT shall provide the customers with funding, mentorship, and exposure to the 5G use case labs under the programme.

The participants will also get assistance in commercialisation of their solution and additional assistance in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) support. DoT asserted that this...