As under the 2022 Secure India goals, the government wants to establish a comprehensive data protection regime for digital communications that safeguards the privacy, autonomy and choice of individuals and facilitates India’s effective participation in the global digital economy, the telecom department on 1 May launched the broad contours of the new Telecom Policy (TP).
The much awaited TP will aim to attract investments worth $100 billion by 2020 in the digital communications sector, create four million additional jobs and enhance the sector’s contribution to 8% of India’s GDP from about 6% in 2017, while adhering to the principles of net neutrality.
Also, the government wants to enable deployment of public Wi-Fi hotspots; to reach 5 million by 2020 and 10 million by 2022, besides ensuring connectivity to all uncovered areas.
The new TP will enable the government to optimally price spectrum, review levies such as license fees and spectrum usage charges as well as M&A rules to ease exits while also taking a fresh look at spectrum sharing, leasing and trading guidelines, as part of its approach that spectrum is a key natural resource which is to be used for public benefit.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said: “The National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 seeks to unlock the transformative power of digital communications networks - to achieve the goal of digital empowerment and well-being of the people of India.”
The new TP also aims to propel India’s rank in the ICT development index to top 50, from 134 in 2017.
The new policy will create a roadmap for emerging technologies and its use in the communications sector, such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and M2M.
DoT said: “It will aim to simplify licensing and regulatory frameworks whilst ensuring appropriate security frameworks for IoT/ M2M / future services and network elements incorporating international best practices iii. Earmarking adequate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for IoT/ M2M services iv. Encourage use of Open APIs for emerging technologies.”
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/national-news/item/12905-100-journalists-write-to-i-b-minister-not-to-regulate-online-media
Also, the government wants to enable deployment of public Wi-Fi hotspots; to reach 5 million by 2020 and 10 million by 2022, besides ensuring connectivity to all uncovered areas.
The new TP will enable the government to optimally price spectrum, review levies such as license fees and spectrum usage charges as well as M&A rules to ease exits while also taking a fresh look at spectrum sharing, leasing and trading guidelines, as part of its approach that spectrum is a key natural resource which is to be used for public benefit.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said: “The National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 seeks to unlock the transformative power of digital communications networks - to achieve the goal of digital empowerment and well-being of the people of India.”
The new TP also aims to propel India’s rank in the ICT development index to top 50, from 134 in 2017.
The new policy will create a roadmap for emerging technologies and its use in the communications sector, such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and M2M.
DoT said: “It will aim to simplify licensing and regulatory frameworks whilst ensuring appropriate security frameworks for IoT/ M2M / future services and network elements incorporating international best practices iii. Earmarking adequate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for IoT/ M2M services iv. Encourage use of Open APIs for emerging technologies.”
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/national-news/item/12905-100-journalists-write-to-i-b-minister-not-to-regulate-online-media
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