1 Nation 1 Licence 1 Number

October 15, 2011

Telecom Policy 2011 Draft For No Roaming Charges And For Increasing Broadband Limit 2x :

The new Telecom Policy, the One Nation, One License Policy . Through this, there will be no difference between Local and STD Calls. This also means that there will be no roaming charges while in India.
Is this a revolutionary step in telecom sector after MNP ?

Mr. Kapil Sibal said, “We will seek TRAI recommendations on license framework under the new Telecom Policy 2011. State operators BSNL and MTNL will continue to play important role in penetration. Mission is to have special coverage of remote and rural areas. The New spectrum act will look into spectrum pricing. New spectrum act will look into spectrum pricing. Spectrum to be made available at market valuations.”

    * One Nation-One License will remove Roaming charges on Mobile phone.
    * ‘Right to Broadband’
    * There target towards every person has his/her mobile number upto 2020.
    * Affordable and reliable Broadband on demand by 2015 and to achieve 175 million broadband connections by the year 2017 and 600 million by the year 2020 at minimum 2 Mbps download speed and making available higher speeds of at least 100 Mbps on demand.
    * To enhance the existing broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps by 2011
    * To 2 Mbps by 2015 and higher speeds of atleast 100 Mbps thereafter.
    * Target to make 300 MHz spectrum to be made available by 2017 and 500 MHz spectrum available by 2020
    * Target is to have the coverage of Remote Tecnology in Rural areas across India.
    * To protect consumer interest by promoting informed consent, transparency and accountability in quality of service, tariff, usage etc.
    * Optimize transmission of services to consumers irrespective of their devices or locations by Fixed-Mobile Convergence thus making available valuable spectrum for other wireless services.
    * Convergence of services will cover voice, data, video, Internet, VAS.
    * The technology neutral Unified Licenses are envisaged to be in two separate categories : (a) Network Service Operator (NSO)/ Communication Network Service Operator (CNSO).
      (b) Service Delivery Operator (SDO)/ Communication Service Delivery Operator (CSDO).
    * To permit resale at retail level like MVNO.
    * De-link licenses issuance’s & spectrum allocations.
    * Spectrum to be made available at market valuations.
    * Seek TRAI recommendation on license framework.
    * To allow trading, sharing, pooling of spectrum.
    * To enact a separate Spectrum Act.
    * Target is to apply the policy take effect by December 2011.

* Will this policy help to over-come from the 2G Scam in India ?

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