National Telecom Policy 2012 Approved

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National Telecom Policy 2012 Approved

Highlights : New National Telecom Policy 2012 :
•One Nation-One License to mean removal of Roaming charges on Mobile phone service.
•Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation – Free Roaming.
•Efforts Towards ‘Right to Broadband’
•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 atleast 100 Mbps on demand.
•To revise the existing broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps by end of 2012 and subsequently to 2 Mbps by 2015 and higher speeds of atleast 100 Mbps thereafter.
•Mission is to have special coverage of Remote, Rural areas across India.
•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
• Cloud Computing, Next Generation Network including IPV6
•De-link licenses issuances & spectrum allocations
•Spectrum to be made available at market valuations
•Seek TRAI recommendation on license framework
•Will allow trading, sharing, pooling of spectrum
•Will enact a separate spectrum act

How I love the idea of no roaming charges

wow.....that is a great newz ;-)

looks good but its a long term thing :/

when will it be effective?

•To revise the existing broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps by end of 2012 and subsequently to 2 Mbps by 2015 and higher speeds of atleast 100 Mbps thereafter.

Should be 1 Mbps atleast IMO at the end of this year.

V

Wow! No roaming, consumer protection etc do seem great. Hope it is implemented soon.

Still only 2Mbps by 2015? :/ It may seem good now, but by that time the first world countries would be far far ahead of us.

consumers will have to wait for some time before roaming charges are abolished and one-number-one-nation concept implement as DoT will first work out modalities of the new scheme before it is brought into force

Vignesh B said:
Wow! No roaming, consumer protection etc do seem great. Hope it is implemented soon.
Still only 2Mbps by 2015? :/ It may seem good now, but by that time the first world countries would be far far ahead of us.

Still ,the more the better. :-D

India can never ever catch up with the advanced countries,regarding Broadband and price issues in Hardware components/products....because,these are Inhibiting ,retardent policies by various vested interest groups,done fully intentionally.Even if we do have the resource(education,manpower,etc.) and Technical Infrastructure,the VICIOUS circle of Political Agenda + Business Agenda will go on and on....

Now that made my day

Thanks for sharing.

H

As per many sources the 2Mbps is to be made available from immediate effect & not 2015..

Differences between National Telecom Policy 2012 and Draft NTP 2011

NTP 2012 Approved: Minimum broadband speed to be 2 Mbps, Roaming charges cancelled | Original Story | Taaza News

^Hail! @HailStonE!
Great News buddy,if implemented,then we the customers would be Thankful to the "System" and Blessed by GOD.

Wish they don't come up with crap FUP plans. I'm only afraid of that.

It would be much better that if they ordered to discontinue FUP everywhere

Either it's Limited or Unlimited

krishnandu.sarkar said:
Wish they don't come up with crap FUP plans. I'm only afraid of that.

It would be much better that if they ordered to discontinue FUP everywhere

Either it's Limited or Unlimited

even in FUP it has to be the said speed.. if its 2Mbps then its 2 Mbps.. they cannot decrease the speed.

^ Upto 1mbps plans should remain without FUP. But any plan with speed over 1mbps should have reasonable amount of FUP (i.e. 100GB min) to avoid abuse.

Charan said:
even in FUP it has to be the said speed.. if its 2Mbps then its 2 Mbps.. they cannot decrease the speed.

Wish it to be true.

d6bmg said:
^ Upto 1mbps plans should remain without FUP. But any plan with speed over 1mbps should have reasonable amount of FUP (i.e. 100GB min) to avoid abuse.

lol..what type of abuse..??

I'm paying for High Bandwidth, just to fetch things from Internet.

So what type of abuse..??

2 mbps minimum lets see what our airtel will do now

krishnandu.sarkar said:
Wish it to be true.

its logical.. if TRAI says "for a service to be called as broadband service , then it should have a minimum of 2 MBPS download speed" then companies cannot sell plans as Broadband which is less than 2 MBPS..

what companies will do is this..
They will still retain the same FUP crap and instead of call it "Broadband" they will call it "High Speed Internet" .. this is what will happen..

krishnandu.sarkar said:
Wish it to be true.

lol..what type of abuse..??

I'm paying for High Bandwidth, just to fetch things from Internet.

So what type of abuse..??

+1.
Absolutely,well said Krishnandu.
The term "abuse" itself is relative when considering the aspect of BB plans and bandwidth.
As a responsible netizen,It's my duty not to abuse on the power of the net.But,system should not be retarded nor a barrier for knowledge,amusement,fun...within the selected authentic domain.

^^I agree. And I believe that's what I'm paying for.

R

Vignesh B said:
Wow! No roaming, consumer protection etc do seem great. Hope it is implemented soon.
Still only 2Mbps by 2015? :/ It may seem good now, but by that time the first world countries would be far far ahead of us.

Yeah, 10mbps should be min. for the year 2015. this year it should have been 2mbps.

krishnandu.sarkar said:
Wish they don't come up with crap FUP plans. I'm only afraid of that.

It would be much better that if they ordered to discontinue FUP everywhere

Either it's Limited or Unlimited

Unlimited? I don't think so. Even big players around the world sets FUP limits, that's how they provide quality service.

serpent16 said:
2 mbps minimum lets see what our airtel will do now

Lets hope by the end of this year we can get 2mbps for rs 500

Good News! TFS!

When ROAMING FREE will start in airtel ???????????/ :O

Charan said:
what companies will do is this..
They will still retain the same FUP crap and instead of call it "Broadband" they will call it "High Speed Internet" .. this is what will happen..

This is true. At least Airtel will surely do this.

Companies will increase speed as well as price too. Poor people who were satisfied my 256 Kbps will now have to pay more. other than speed and roaming, I find nothing interesting in these set of policies. We already had enough rules for consumer protection. But nothing works.

For example, DND. Does it works. I have applied for DND in Aircel, Vodafone, Reliance. But still get ad calls.

great news... but whats the use of more speed if there is no broadband line coverage.. my colony lies inside city circle but still i cant get broadband access...

Me too. Have to depend on Data card. I have BSNL EVDO 2.4 Mbps on paper but normal speed is average 140 Kbps.

S

2 Mbps minimum and atleast 100 Mbps by 2015.................... looks lame after reading on engadget that verizon's doubled its speeds. Now they have minimum 15 Mbps and max 300 Mbps download speed. By 2015 if we get to 100 Mbps they will have speeds in Gbps.

R

^The 1 gbps is already common, the next big thing is 2gbps

I yearn for the day one will have 1MBps no FUP broadband @ 500/- and 2MBps no FUP @ 1k.

Airtel started 4G LTE in kolkata, don't know the details but I bet prices will be astronomically high.

This news came back in dec only, now they have flashed it again. Earlier it was said to be implemented by april 12, now end of the year. I hope it does.

Hello Dear Friends I Am New To Thinkdigit Forum All Are requested To Co operate with me if any thing goes wrong...The New Policy Is Very Good But In India its still left far,hope for the best...

Good news,Friends!!!! :mrgreen:

According to "The Telegraph",at Business Telegraph,Page No:12,Today 1st June,2012.

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Under the new policy,broadband speed has been increased to a minimum of 2 megabit per second.This change will come into force with immediate effect.
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This is the extract taken from the penultimate stanza ,under the news heading:-->
Roaming free in new telecom policy

Hopefully, BSNL will be the first to adopt this directive.

techno said:
Hello Dear Friends I Am New To Thinkdigit Forum All Are requested To Co operate with me if any thing goes wrong...The New Policy Is Very Good But In India its still left far,hope for the best...

welcome to tdf
just read the forum rules in my signature and you shall be safe :razz:

dashing.sujay said:
This news came back in dec only, now they have flashed it again. Earlier it was said to be implemented by april 12, now end of the year. I hope it does.

it was proposed in december , but was not approved by the cabinet
there are 5 differences between ntp 2011 and ntp 2012
now that it has been approved with the due changes, DoT will start implementing it in the next few months

P

great news for all

Guys in TOI they wrote 2 MBPS by this year

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As long as such crappy FUP exist in india, no policy can be a success..