The latest NTP 2018 is yet another opportunity for the government to bring in the much needed fundamental change required by the Indian Telecom sector for it to recast. The new policy must encourage investments and ensure financial stability of the sector. Several current levies & taxes need to be rationalised and multiple audits must be done away with, if we want India to leapfrog into the next level of socio-economic growth and improve our ease of doing business rankings.<\/p>
At this time, the industry is in a downward spiral. Cumulative debts amounting to around INR 4.6 lakh crore on revenues of under INR 1.8 lakh crore are forcing the industry to question the long-term prospects and viability of the sector. The industry has suggested a number of options to the telecom regulator when it was conducting the consultation process, including reduction of Spectrum Usage Charge to a uniform 1% (of AGR) and create a Telecom Finance Corporation as a vehicle to mobilize and channelize financing. Other submissions included the USO fund contribution be rationalised to 3% and ultimately be done away within 2-3 years.<\/p>
In terms of operational changes, the sector has been seeking resolution for a number of issues, including a single unified licence across the country where every service provider offering the same service must adhere to the same rules. Similarly, there is a need to put a Spectrum Management policy in place so that the major points of conflict are dealt with conclusively. Moreover, the service providers should be allowed access to satellite spectrum for any application, i.e. V-SAT, Direct to Home (DTH), Teleport or any other form of telecom services.<\/p>
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Other recommendations circles around ease of doing business, data privacy, network security, manufacturing and skill development \u2013 prerequisites for an investor friendly environment. The government is targeting the end of the fiscal year to finalise the new NTP. The Hon. Minister has conveyed his cognisance of these issues at various public and industry platforms for which the industry is truly grateful.<\/p>
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TRAI has released detailed suggestions for NTP-2018, with many of industry\u2019s recommendations included. We are happy that the regulator has considered most of the suggestions and has further come out with objectives, along with specific timelines to achieve the same. TRAI\u2019s recommended simplifying the licensing and regulatory frameworks and rationalizing taxes, levies and related compliance by 2019. We agree with this simplification as it includes reduction in the multiple audits \u2013 this will save both cost and time of the operators.<\/p>
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The NTP2018 is heading towards creating ICT policy, focussing on getting investment for building networks and creating infrastructure. TRAI has even gone ahead and suggested the latest policy document to be named as an ICT Policy-2018.<\/p>
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NTP 2018 also needs to take into account future technologies such as 5G. 5G network is envisaged to accommodate Applications and Services with different latency, reliability and bandwidth. This would require effective sharing of network resources and network management techniques. Technologies like Software Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) would be implemented for effective sharing of the network to support the 5G use cases. Various network functions such as network slicing, Mobile Content Delivery Network as Service can be implemented through these technologies to support various 5G use cases. The Government needs to come out with a policy to see that these technological initiatives and innovations are facilitated and are not hampered by any archaic Policy statement, or intrusive irrelevant solutions. <\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> TRAI has also come out with several strategies to achieve certain targets for leapfrogging India into the Top-50 nations in International rankings in Ease of Doing Business in the ICT sector. Investments of over INR 2-3 lakh crores over the next two years would be required for a fully connected and an empowered Digital India.<\/p> <\/p> The industry has called for a stable investment friendly policy environment where telecom operators can be sustainable enough to invest cash into their business and work together with the Government to connect over 1 billion people to the internet. As per reports a 10 per cent increase in broadband penetration leads to a 1.4% growth in GDP. The time is truly ripe for a bold former PR Vajpayee like reforms through this NTP.<\/p> <\/p> Though the Government has reduced GST rates and has made IMG\u2019s recommendations, to bring about systematic changes, but not much has been done yet, while the industry continues to ask for relief.<\/p> <\/p> The need is to create a stable, predictable, innovation & investment, friendly regulatory and policy environment. We hope that the government will extend urgent relief, by addressing the industry\u2019s recommendation, in the upcoming NTP 2018.<\/p> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p>","blog_img":"","featured":0,"status":"Y","seo_title":"NTP2018: A new hope for telecom sector","seo_url":"ntp2018-a-new-hope-for-telecom-sector","cms_link":"ntp2018-a-new-hope-for-telecom-sector\/3011","updated_at":"2018-04-30 13:36:59","time":"2018-04-30 13:36:59","authors":[{"author_name":"Rajan S Mathews","author_description":"Director General, COAI","author_designation":"Director General","author_company":"COAI","profile_pic":"retail_files\/author_1485515109_temp.jpg"}],"tags":[],"url_seo":"ntp2018-a-new-hope-for-telecom-sector"}">
随着科技的发展,政策环境也必须跟上,所有公民在不断变化的环境中获得安全访问。这是持续的关键,社会经济快速发展的国家。朝着这个目标,政府一直在定期宣布电信政策。到目前为止我们已经看到四个这样的政策——1994年国家电信政策(NTP94), 1999年国家电信政策(NTP99), 2004年和NTP2012宽带政策。现在是时候为下一阶段的通信服务在印度——NTP2018。每个国家结核控制规划文档留下了持久的印象,可以认为是电信业的巨大成功背后的原因在过去二十年中。 最新的2018年国家结核控制规划是另一个机会为政府带来急需的根本性变化所需的印度电信业重塑。新政策必须鼓励投资和确保金融稳定的行业。几位现任&收税需要合理化和多个审计必须废除,如果我们希望印度跨越到下一个水平的社会经济增长和改善我们的经商排名。 此时,行业下行螺旋。累积的债务总计约4.6印度卢比十万的卢比的收入的INR 1.8下十万的卢比迫使该行业的长期前景和可行性问题。业界提出了多种选择电信监管机构进行协商时,包括减少频谱使用电荷均匀1% (AGR)并创建一个电信金融公司作为动员和疏导车辆融资。其他提交包括USO基金的贡献被合理化,最终在2 - 3年内完成了3%。 操作更改,该行业一直在寻求解决的问题,包括统一全国的执照,每个服务提供者提供同样的服务必须遵守同样的规则。同样,有一个需要把一个频谱管理政策的主要观点冲突处理结论。此外,应该允许服务提供者获取卫星光谱对于任何应用程序,例如V-SAT,直接回家(DTH),传送或任何其他形式的电信服务。 其他建议环绕缓解做生意的,数据隐私、网络安全、生产和技能发展先决条件对投资者友好的环境。政府的目标是结束的财年敲定新的国家结核控制规划。部长阁下已经转达了他的认知这些问题在不同的公众和行业平台的行业真的是感激。 火车已经发布了详细的2018年国家结核控制规划的建议,包括许多工业的建议。我们是快乐的,监管机构认为大多数的建议和进一步推出目标,以及实现相同的具体时间表。火车的建议简化许可和监管框架和合理化税,征税和相关合规到2019年。我们同意这样的简化包括多个审计——这将减少运营商的节省成本和时间。 NTP2018朝着创建ICT政策,关注投资建设网络和建立基础设施。火车甚至向前走,显示最新的政策文件被命名为ICT政策- 2018。 2018年国家结核控制规划还需要考虑未来的技术,如5克。5 g网络是设想,以适应与不同的应用程序和服务延迟,可靠性和带宽。这将需要有效的网络资源共享和网络管理技术。软件定义网络等技术(SDN),网络功能虚拟化(NFV)将实现有效共享的网络支持5 g的用例。各种网络功能,如网络切片,移动内容分发网络服务可以通过这些技术实现支持各种用例5克。政府需要推出一项政策,这些技术措施和创新是促进和不受任何古老的政策声明,或侵入性无关的解决方案。
火车也出来几个策略来实现某些目标跨越印度在国际排名位国家缓解ICT行业做生意的。投资的INR 2 - 3十万的卢比在未来两年内将需要一个完全连接和一个授权数字印度。 业界呼吁一个稳定的投资环境友好政策,电信运营商可以持续足够的现金投资到他们的业务和与政府共同努力,超过10亿人连接到互联网。根据报告宽带普及率增加10%导致GDP增长1.4%。时间是真正成熟的一个大胆的前公关瓦杰帕伊像改革通过这个国家结核控制规划。 尽管政府销售税降低利率和IMG的建议,带来系统的变化,但没有多少已经完成,而该行业继续寻求救济。 需要的是创造一个稳定、可预测的,创新和投资,友好的监管和政策环境。我们希望政府会延长紧急救援,解决产业的建议,在即将到来的2018年国家结核控制规划。
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