In all, the government has outlined six objectives in the draft of the new national telecom policy, floated Tuesday by the department of telecommunications.
In the not-so-distant future, one would be able to use your mobile for calling and browsing the Internet mid-air through a flight. Passengers would also be able to use apps like WhatsApp and Skype to make calls on landlines.
These two were among the several key recommendations of the regulator that the Telecom Commission today gave its approval to with some changes.
The government is targeting "50 Mbps broadband for all by 2022" with an aim to increase the share of digital communications sector to the country’s GDP to 8 percent by that year from 6 percent now.
In all, the government has outlined six objectives in the draft of the new national telecom policy, floated Tuesday by the department of telecommunications.
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It will seek views from the general public and all other stakeholders on the draft before coming out with a final policy. The draft policy aims to attract investments of USD 100 billion in the digital communications sector.
The government’s targets are ambitious. It aims to provide universal broadband coverage at 50 Mbps to every citizen, a daunting task in a country where data speeds are mostly one-tenth of that. It also aims to establish 5 million public WiFi hotspots by 2020 and 10 million by 2022. In many cases, the targets have been set with two deadlines -- 2020 and 2022.
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