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New telecom policy seeks to remove roaming charges
Thursday May 31, 2012 06:28:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The cabinet
Thursday approved a new telecom policy that seeks to do away with
roaming charges across the country and simplifies the licencing
policy, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.
"Affordability of the consumers is the core of our policy," Sibal
told reporters after a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh.
Sibal said the new policy aims at free roaming facility throughout
the country.
The minister said the new policy seeks to provide a predictable
and stable policy regime for a period of nearly 10 years.
The new policy called National Telecom Policy-2012 will replace
more than a decade old legislation.
"The policy envisions providing secure, reliable, affordable and
high quality converged telecommunication services anytime,
anywhere for an accelerated inclusive socio-economic development."
according to an official statement released after the cabinet
meeting.
"The main thrust of the Policy is on the multiplier effect and
transformational impact of such services on the overall economy,"
the statement said.
The policy will be operationalised by bringing out detailed
guidelines, as may be considered appropriate, from time to time.
It will enable smooth implementation of the policies for providing
an efficient telecommunication infrastructure taking into account
the primary objective of maximising public good by empowering the
people of India, the statement said.
"The policy will further enable taking suitable facilitatory
measures to encourage existing service providers to rapidly
migrate to the new regime in a uniformly liberalised environment
with a level playing field," it said.
The union cabinet also approved introduction of unified licence
and authorised the Department of Telecommunications to finalise
the new unified licensing regime with the approval of minister of
communications and IT.
The thrust areas of the New Telecom Policy-2012 are:
. 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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