No
roaming charges in new Indian telecom policy
Indian
Telecom Ministry has Thursday permitted
a new Telecom policy that seeks to do away with roaming charges throughout the
country and simplifies the licensing policy, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said
Thursday
Affordability
of the consumers is the core of our policy, Sibal told reporters after a
cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Sibal
said the new policy aims at free roaming facility throughout the country. At present, users have to pay extra when they
receive or make a call in a circle outside their home network, called roaming
charges. Also mobile number portability is not permitted outside circle
The
NTP 2012 aims to provide free roaming to telecom users and allow them to retain
the mobile number even outside their circles without having to pay any extra
charge.
The
minister said the new policy seeks to provide a predictable and stable policy
regime for a period of nearly 10 years.
The
new policy called National Telecom Policy-2012 will replace more than a decade
old legislation.
“The
main thrust of the Policy is on the multiplier effect and transformational
impact of such services on the overall economy,” the statement said.
The
union cabinet also approved introduction of unified license and authorized the
Department of Telecommunications to finalize the new unified licensing regime
with the approval of minister of communications and IT.
The
thrust areas of the New Telecom Policy-2012 are:
- Increase rural Tele density from the
current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020
- Repositioning of Mobile phone as an
instrument of empowerment
- Broadband -”‘Broadband For All” at a
minimum download speed of 2 Mbps
- Domestic Manufacturing – Making
- Convergence of Network, Services and
Devices
- Liberalization of Spectrum – any Service
in any Technology
- Simplification of Licensing regime –
Unified Licensing, de linking of Spectrum from License, Online real time
submission and processing
- Consumer Focus – Achieve One Nation –
Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation – Free Roaming
- Resale of Services
- Voice over Internet Protocol
- Cloud Computing, Next Generation Network
including IPV6
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