Technology | Business News Updates | VisheshBaat News | May 2, 2018
Draft telecom policy aims 40 lakh new jobs, $100 billion investment, 50 mbps broadband speed
It seems that good days are ahead for the Indian telecom sector. The Draft telecom policy which is being developed by the government of India is expected to have a lot in the offing for the people of the country, specially the unemployed. The new policy aims at generating a lot of jobs. As per reports the new telecom policy would be generating around 40 lakh new jobs in the telecom sector and it will cover various levels of expertise. The policy is said to have also proposed $100 billion investment in the sector and after such a mammoth investment, the sector seems all set for a zoom. As per reports, the new policy also aims to provide 50 mbps broadband speed.
The National Communications Policy aims to accomplish the following Strategic Objectives
by 2022:
1. Provisioning of Broadband for All
2. Creating 4 Million additional jobs in the Digital Communications sector
3. Enhancing the contribution of the Digital Communications sector to 8% of India’s
GDP from ~ 6% in 2017
4. Propelling India to the Top 50 Nations in the ICT Development Index of ITU from
134 in 2017
5. Enhancing India’s contribution to Global Value Chains
6. Ensuring Digital Sovereignty
2022 Goals:
a. Provide Universal broadband coverage at 50 Mbps to every citizen
b. Provide 1 Gbps connectivity to all Gram Panchayats of India by 2020 and 10 Gbps by
2022
c. Enable 100 Mbps broadband on demand to all key development institutions; including
all educational institutions
d. Enable fixed line broadband access to 50% of households
e. Achieve ‘unique mobile subscriber density’ of 55 by 2020 and 65 by 2022
f. Enable deployment of public Wi-Fi Hotspots; to reach 5 million by 2020 and 10
million by 2022
g. Ensure connectivity to all uncovered areas
Propel India: Enabling Next Generation Technologies and Services
through Investments, Innovation, Indigenous Manufacturing and IPR
Generation
2022 Goals:
a. Attract investments of USD 100 Billion in the Digital Communications Sector
b. Increase India’s contribution to Global Value Chains
c. Creation of innovation led Start-ups in Digital Communications sector
d. Creation of Globally recognized IPRs in India
e. Development of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in the field of digital
communication technologies
f. Train/ Re-skill 1 Million manpower for building New Age Skills
g. Expand IoT ecosystem to 5 Billion connected devices
h. Accelerate transition to Industry 4.0
Secure India: Ensuring Digital Sovereignty, Safety and Security of
Digital Communications
2022 Goals:
a. 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
b. Ensure that net neutrality principles are upheld and aligned with service requirements,
bandwidth availability and network capabilities including next generation access
technologies
c. Develop and deploy robust digital communication network security frameworks
d. Build capacity for security testing and establish appropriate security standards
e. Address security issues relating to encryption and security clearances
f. Enforce accountability through appropriate institutional mechanisms to assure citizens
of safe and secure digital communications infrastructure and services
The Ministry of Communications Government of India has invited Public comments on Draft National Digital Communications Policy – 2018
Download Draft National Digital Communications Policy 2018 : Download Draft-National-Telecom-Policy-2018
The following were the Recommendations by TRAI for the National Telecom Policy 2018
Objectives:
1. To enable access at affordable prices for wireless broadband services,
including through satellite to 90% population by 2022;
2. To ensure availability of bandwidth on demand through wireline,
including cable TV and optical fibre networks to 30% households by
2020 and 50% households by 2022;
3. To provide at least 1 Gbps data connectivity to all Gram Panchayats to
enable wireless broadband services to inhabitants by 2022;
4. To achieve 900 million broadband subscriptions supporting download
speed of 2 Mbps, out of that at-least 150 million broadband
subscriptions supporting download speed of 20 Mbps and 25 million at a
download speed of 50 Mbps by 2022;
5. To achieve ‘unique mobile subscriber density’ of 55 by 2020 and 65 by
2022 by enhancing mobile network coverage to 95% of inhabitants by
2020 and 100% by 2022;
6. To deploy 2 million public WLAN including Wi-Fi hotspots in the country
by 2020 and 5 million by 2022;
7. To leapfrog India into the top-50 nations in the ICT Development Index
(IDI), released by ITU every year, by 2022;
8. To enable access for connecting to 1 billion IoT/ M2M sensors/ devices
by 2020 and 5 billion by 2022;
9. To attract an investment equivalent to USD 60 billion in communication
sector by 2020 and USD 100 billion by 2022;
10.To become net positive in international trade of communication systems
and services by 2022;
11.To create 2 million additional jobs in ICT sector by 2022;
12.To put in place an ombudsman based consumer grievance redressal
mechanism by end of 2018;
13.To establish online centralised platform for provision of Right of Way
(RoW) permissions for single window clearance by 2019;
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14.To achieve backhaul connectivity on optical fibre for at least 60% base
stations by 2022;
15.To put in place an online platform for all Government to Business (G2B)
activities including spectrum and license related information,
applications, clearances, compliances, and payments by 2019;
16.To simplify licensing and regulatory frameworks, and rationalize taxes,
levies and related compliances by 2019;
17.To put in place a flexible, robust data protection regime powered by a
strong encryption policy by 2019;
18.To establish a policy framework for facilitating setting up of data centres
by 2019.
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