Tuesday 25 February 2014

Challenges in Telecom

The Pacific Telecommunications Council India Foundation having completed 20 years of its presence in India observed this day on the 21st February 2014. At its 20th Annual Conference, on ‘Challenges in Telecom’ a number of issues pertaining to this sector were discussed by experts, the most prominent being the matter of unlawful spying, cyber security and manufacturing in telecom. 
In order to take care of these, it was felt necessary, inter alia,  to minimize dependence on foreign gear and to deploy Indian equipment and designs conforming to our environmental conditions - as was done in the eighties when the Indian-designed rural digital exchanges were put into service and are serving our rural areas. It was felt necessary to utilise such gear of which the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) reside in our country. Note was also taken of the recently designed optical fibre G-PON equipment which has the potential to interconnect all villages by broadband. 

The pressing need of enhancing our R&D and innovation capabilities was highlighted and suggestion was made that the Companies Act should make a statutory provision of funds to be expended by large telecom-related Organisations – somewhat on the lines of 2% provision for Corporate Social Responsibility spending. The Conference also took note of the enormous delays and financial burden caused by the ‘Right of Way’ clearances faced by Operators and Project staff. Yet another vital issue of ‘content’ of the applications in regional languages was projected by experts - which is a prerequisite to enable the benefits penetrating to the farthest corners, and this was also recognised as a big opportunity for software developers all over the country.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/telecom-news/item/4332-challenges-in-telecom.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/telecom-news/item/4332-challenges-in-telecom.html

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