Fresh telecom targets of Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011

Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister of Communications and Information and Human Resource Development, announced the draft National Telecom Policy-2011.




The government has already missed several targets in the past.




The new targets are the following:


–Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 35 percent  to 60  percent by the year 2017 and 100 percent by the year 2020.




–Provide affordable and reliable broadband on demand by the year 2015 and to achieve 175 million broadband connections by the year 2017 and 600 million by the year 2020 at minimum 2 Mbps download speed and making available higher speeds of at least 100 Mbps on demand.




–Provide high speed and high quality broadband access to all village panchayats through optical fibre by the year 2014 and progressively to all villages and habitations.




–Promote indigenous R&D, innovation and manufacturing that serve domestic and foreign markets. 




–Promote the domestic production of telecommunication equipment to meet 80% Indian telecom sector demand through domestic manufacturing with a value addition of 65% by the year 2020.




–Provide preferential market access for domestically manufactured telecommunication products including mobile devices, SIM cards with enhanced features etc. with special emphasis on Indian products for which IPRs reside in India to address strategic and security concerns of the Government, consistent with international commitments.




–Strive to create One Nation – One License across services and service areas.




–Achieve One Nation – Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation – Free Roaming.




–To re-position the mobile phone from a mere communication device to an instrument of empowerment that combines communication with proof of identity, fully secure financial and other transaction capability, multi-lingual services and a whole range of other capabilities that ride on them and transcend the literacy barrier.




–Deliver seamless ICT, multimedia and broadcasting services on converged networks for enhanced service delivery to provide superior experience to customers.




–Optimize transmission of services to consumers irrespective of their devices or locations by Fixed-Mobile Convergence thus making available valuable spectrum for other wireless services.




–Facilitate consolidation in the converged telecom service sector while ensuring sufficient competition.




–Mandate an ecosystem to ensure setting up of a common platform for interconnection of various networks for providing non-exclusive and non-discriminatory access.




–Promote an ecosystem for participants in VAS industry value chain to make India a global hub for Value Added Services (VAS).




–Ensure adequate availability of spectrum and its allocation in a transparent manner through market related processes. Make available additional 300 MHz spectrum for IMT services by the year 2017 and another 200 MHz by 2020.




–Strengthen the framework to address the environmental and health related concernspertaining to the telecom sector.




–Encourage adoption of green policy in telecom and incentivize use of renewable resources for sustainability.




–Protect consumer interest by promoting informed consent, transparency and accountability in quality of service, tariff, usage etc.




–Encourage recognition and creation of synergistic alliance of public sector and other organisations of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) through appropriate policy interventions.




–Achieve substantial transition to new Internet Protocol (IPv 6) in the country in a phased and time bound manner by 2020 and encourage an ecosystem for provision of a significantly large bouquet of services on IP platform.




–Put in place a web based, real time e-governance solution to support online submission of applications for all services of DoT and issuance of licences and clearances from DoT.





By Telecomlead.com Team
[email protected]