National Telecom Policy 2012

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NTP 1994 OBJECTIVES

Availability of basic telephone services to all villages World class services on reasonable prices India as a manufacturing hub Importance of private investment to bridge the resource gap
Acheived 1 PCO per 522 urban population Telephone coverage to only 3.1 lakh villages

Target 1 PCO per 500 urban population Telephone coverage to all 6 lakh villages

7.5 mn telephone lines

8.73 mn telephone lines

NTP 1999- OBJECTIVES

Availability of affordable and effective communication Encourage development of telecommunications facilities in rural areas Achieve efficiency in spectrum management Strengthen R&D efforts in the country
Target Achieve teledensity of 7 by 2005 and 15 by 2010 Making tariff structure more affordable Increase rural teledensity from 0.4 to 4 by 2010 Achieve telecom coverage of all villages Provide internet access to all distinct headquarters by 2000 Achieved 67.67 % by March 2011 Yes 32.11 % by March 2011 593,601 villages by Jan 2011 No

NTP 2012- Vision & Mission

To provide secure, reliable, affordable and high quality converged telecommunication services anytime, anywhere for an accelerated inclusive socio-economic development
To develop a robust and secure state-of-the-art telecommunication network To create an inclusive knowledge society

To reposition the mobile device as an instrument of socio-economic empowerment of citizens To make India a global hub for telecom equipment manufacturing

To attract investment, both domestic and foreign

OBJECTIVES
Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020 Provide affordable and reliable broadband-on-demand by the year 2015

One Nation - One License, one nation- free roaming Achieve substantial transition to new Internet Protocol (IPv 6)

De-linking spectrum from license Simplify Merger & Acquisition regime while ensuring adequate competition

Policy framework for financing the sector

Strategies

Broadband, Rural Telephony And Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)

An eco-system for broadband in close coordination with all stakeholders Right to Broadband Providing reliable and affordable broadband access to rural and remote areas Broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 & thereon to 2 Mbps by 2015 and higher speeds of at least 100 Mbps thereafter Optical fibre network will be initially laid up to the village panchayat level by funding from the USOF Encourage Fibre To The Home (FTTH)

Leverage the mobile device and SIM Card with enhanced features
Local content creation in regional languages to push investment in AllInternet Protocol (IP) networks including NGN Ensure availability of adequate spectrum to meet current and future demand for microwave access/ backhaul

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R&D, Manufacturi ng and Standardizat ion of Telecommun ication Equipment

Set up a Council consisting of experts to carry out technology and product development forecast
create fund to promote indigenous R&D, Intellectual Property creation, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, commercializing and deployment of state-of-the-art telecom products and services promote setting up of Telecommunications Standard Development Organization (TSDO) as an autonomous body Promote synergy amongst manufacturers, R&D centers, academia, service providers and other stakeholders Assist entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize Indian products

Support Electronic Design and Manufacturing Clusters for design, development and manufacture of telecommunication equipment Facilitate provision of appropriate fiscal incentives through a Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS) Create suitable testing infrastructure and Mandate testing and certification of all telecom products for conformance, performance, interoperability, health, safety, security Provide appropriate incentives to the Indian product manufacturers for domestic deployment and exports

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LICENSING, CONVERGENCE AND VALUE ADDED SERVICES

To orient, review and harmonise the legal, regulatory and licensing framework in a time bound manner to enable seamless delivery of converged services in a technology and service neutral environment Convergence of local cable TV networks

Facilitate delinking of the licensing of Networks from the delivery of Services to the end users To endeavour to make available Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) compliant with security requirements. To regulate the carriage charges, which are content neutral and based on the bandwidth utilisation S3

To extend Intra-circle mobile number portability facility on nationwide basis

SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT

To enable use of spectrum in any band to provide any service in any technology as well as to permit spectrum pooling, sharing and later, trading to enable optimal utilisation of spectrum

Periodic audit

To review the existing geographical unit of allocation of spectrum

To consider requirement of spectrum in certain frequency bands in small chunks at specified locations for encouraging indigenous development of technologies/ products and their deployment.

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TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURE / ROW ISSUES, GREEN TELECOM, CLEAR SKYLINE, MITIGATION EFFORTS DURING DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES

To work towards recognition of telecom as Infrastructure Sector for both wireline and wireless To emphasize the active role of both private sector and Government

To promote the use of energy efficient equipment including low power wireless devices in telecom networks To review and simplify sectoral policy for Right of Way for laying cable network and installation of towers To mandate for mapping and submission of information of the infrastructure assets on the standards based inter-operable GIS platform by all telecom infrastructure/ service providers to the licensor. To facilitate increased use of alternative sources (Renewable Energy Technologies) of energy for powering telecom networks through active participation of all the stakeholders To promote use of In-Building Solutions (IBS) and Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)

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To facilitate an institutional framework to establish nationwide Unified Emergency Response Mechanism by providing nationwide single access number for emergency services.

Quality of Service and Protection of Consumer Interest

To formulate a Code of Practice for Sales and Marketing Communications to improve transparency as well as address security issues relating to Customer Acquisition. To support the sector regulator in its efforts to enhance consumer awareness about services, tariffs, and QoS. To make mandatory provision for web based disclosure of area coverage by telecom service providers. To facilitate establishment of a National Mobile Property Registry for addressing security, theft and other concerns including reprogramming of mobile handsets.

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Security

To mandate and enforce that the Telecom Service Providers take adequate measures to ensure the security.

Induction of that safe-to-connect devices into the Telecom Network

To ensure security in an increasingly insecure cyber space, indigenously manufactured multi-functional SIM cards with indigenously designed chips incorporating specific laid down standards are considered critical To mandate standards in the areas of safety and security in all possible building blocks of the communication network.

To develop a rational criterion for sharing of costs beyond a threshold limit between Government and the service providers in implementing security measures.

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Skill Development

To put in place an ecosystem

To set-up a comprehensive repository in NTIPRIT for disseminating telecom field related information, standards, benchmarks, resources, program curriculum, etc.

To develop other training institutes under Department of Telecommunications and its organisations as national level telecom schools of excellence for imparting training to Government/ PSU officials and other stakeholders. To promote and augment vocational and non-formal training institutes in urban and rural areas to cater to the skill and training needs of telecom sector.

To encourage collaboration with premier educational institutes like IITs and telecom research organizations of excellence for directing research and development to field problems.

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Recognize the strategic importance of Telecom PSUs in nurturing Governments intervention in important matters

Restructuring of PSU in terms of management, manpower and equity

Identify and exploit strategic and operational synergies in service provision, infrastructure creation, and manufacturing

To exploit individual strengths of PSUs to ensure these organisations flourish effectively in the competitive telecom market To provide vital support for domestic manufacturing of Indian Telecom products

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CLOUD SERVICES

Speed up design and roll out of services

Enable social networking

Participative governance and e-Commerce on a large scale

Ensure rapid expansion of new services and technologies at globally competitive prices and lowering cost of service delivery

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Operationalization of policy

To take suitable facilitatory measures to encourage existing service providers to rapidly migrate to the new regime in a uniformly liberalised environment Policy will be operationalized by bringing out detailed guidelines

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Telecom Enterprise Data Services, IPv6 Compliant Networks And Future Technologi es

Facilitate the role of new technologies

Adopt best practices to address the issues related to emerging technologies Recognize the importance of the new Internet Protocol IPv6 Establish a Dedicated Centre of Innovation - RnD, specialized training, development of applications in the field of IPv6

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Financing Of Telecom Sector

Create Telecom Finance Corporation

Rationalize taxes, duties and levies affecting the sector.

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Role Of Regulator, Changes In Legislation

Review the TRAI Act.

Review of Indian Telegraph Act and its rules.

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Take requisite steps to strengthen various units of DoT.

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