The Indian government Thursday unveiled a new, consumer-friendly telecom
policy, paving the way for free roaming and nation-wide mobile number
portability. !!"Affordability of the consumers is the core of our policy," Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said after a cabinet meeting chaired by
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the National Telecom Policy (NTP)
2012.
"Target is one nation full mobile number portability and work towards
one nation free roaming." The minister said the new policy will replace the
older regulation which has been in effect for more than 12 years now and
provide a predictable and stable policy regime for a period of nearly 10 years.
The policy envisions providing a "secure, reliable, affordable and high quality converged telecommunication services anytime, anywhere for an accelerated inclusive socio-economic development". The policy will be operationalised by bringing out detailed guidelines, as may be considered appropriate, from time
to time. It envisages increasing penetration of telecom services in rural area
from current level of around 39 to 70 percent by 2017 and 100 per cent by the
ear 2020.
Broadband speed has also been increased to minimum of 2 megabit
per second (mbps). This change will come into force with immediate effect.
Also, under the new policy, licences will be delinked from spectrum which have been bundled with the licences so far
As far as telecom operators and mobile operators are concerned, separate liceneses for different parts of the country will not be required - a single one will be more than enough. The following norms have been brought forth in the policy:
policy, paving the way for free roaming and nation-wide mobile number
portability. !!"Affordability of the consumers is the core of our policy," Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said after a cabinet meeting chaired by
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the National Telecom Policy (NTP)
2012.
"Target is one nation full mobile number portability and work towards
one nation free roaming." The minister said the new policy will replace the
older regulation which has been in effect for more than 12 years now and
provide a predictable and stable policy regime for a period of nearly 10 years.
The policy envisions providing a "secure, reliable, affordable and high quality converged telecommunication services anytime, anywhere for an accelerated inclusive socio-economic development". The policy will be operationalised by bringing out detailed guidelines, as may be considered appropriate, from time
to time. It envisages increasing penetration of telecom services in rural area
from current level of around 39 to 70 percent by 2017 and 100 per cent by the
ear 2020.
Broadband speed has also been increased to minimum of 2 megabit
per second (mbps). This change will come into force with immediate effect.
Also, under the new policy, licences will be delinked from spectrum which have been bundled with the licences so far
As far as telecom operators and mobile operators are concerned, separate liceneses for different parts of the country will not be required - a single one will be more than enough. The following norms have been brought forth in the policy:
- Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020
- Repositioning of Mobile phone- as an instrument of empowerment
- Broadband –“'Broadband For All” at a minimum download speed of 2 Mbps
- Domestic Manufacturing- Making India a global hub
- Convergence of Network, Services and Devices
- Liberalisation of Spectrum - any Service in any Technology
- Simplification of Licensing regime- Unified Licensing, delinking of Spectrum from License, Online real time submission and processing
- Consumer Focus - Achieve One Nation - Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation - Free Roaming
- Resale of Services
- Voice over Internet Protocol
- Cloud Computing, Next Generation Network including IPV6
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