Enhancing Rural Connectivity Strategies for B5G and 6G Implementation
Dankan Gowda V, C. R. Vijay, S. V. Ramanan, KDV Prasad, Anil Sharma · Advances in wireless technologies and telecommunication book series · 2025
Realising the potential of B5G as well as 6G technologies makes potential a chance to solve the issues associated with the connectivity of the rural areas. This chapter aims at discussing elaborate plans and approaches to the deployment of B5G and 6G networks to improve on the connectivity of rural areas. We then discuss the technology enablers that rendered these networks fit for rural settings through modern communication technologies such as satellite communications, edge computing, and new spectrum management methods. Thus, by studying the presence of networks in different situations, we discuss the main practices for deploying networks and consider examples of pilot projects. Secondly, the chapter also analyses wider socio-economic effects that increased connectivity has on rural societies, including access to education, health care or employment. We also discuss the limitation that may exist in the implementation of the strategy such as infrastructural, regulatory and financial and the ways by which they could be surmounted.