New Delhi: The latest National Telecom Policy (NTP-25) has listed down creating a million jobs and covering the entire population through 4G services as among its key goals to be reached by 2030.
Other NTP goals are covering 90% of the population with 5G, increasing fiberisation of towers to 80%, having accessible devices for all, deploying 1 million public WiFi hotspots, and reaching fixed broadband services to 100 million households.
A draft of the policy, which has laid out goals and targets to be achieved in the next five years, has been put up for public consultation.
As per the draft, the policy is anchored in six strategic missions with clearly defined goals and targeted strategies. The aim is to deliver affordable, high-quality connectivity to every citizen, drive self-reliant manufacturing and exports of telecom equipment, establish robust framework for cyber security, create a simplified regulatory environment etc.
"With this policy, India aims to emerge not only as a leading consumer of digital technologies, but also as a trusted global provider of telecom products, services, and solutions," the preamble of the draft policy said.
The NTP-25 aims to accomplish 10 key objectives by 2030 which include having universal and meaningful connectivity for all, achieve '1 lakh crore ($12 billion) annual investment in telecom infrastructure, double the export of telecom products and services, create 1 million new jobs in telecom sector and another 1 million workers to be reskilled among others.
To expand the telecommunication network, it has been proposed to devise Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) schemes to expand mobile networks in underserved rural, remote, and urban areas and also introduce incentive schemes for proliferation of fixed line broadband.
The policy proposes to promote advanced technologies and satellite integration. It calls for setting up satcom use case labs for socio-economic applications and enabling ground station as a service (GSaaS) from India.
Other NTP goals are covering 90% of the population with 5G, increasing fiberisation of towers to 80%, having accessible devices for all, deploying 1 million public WiFi hotspots, and reaching fixed broadband services to 100 million households.
A draft of the policy, which has laid out goals and targets to be achieved in the next five years, has been put up for public consultation.
As per the draft, the policy is anchored in six strategic missions with clearly defined goals and targeted strategies. The aim is to deliver affordable, high-quality connectivity to every citizen, drive self-reliant manufacturing and exports of telecom equipment, establish robust framework for cyber security, create a simplified regulatory environment etc.
"With this policy, India aims to emerge not only as a leading consumer of digital technologies, but also as a trusted global provider of telecom products, services, and solutions," the preamble of the draft policy said.
The NTP-25 aims to accomplish 10 key objectives by 2030 which include having universal and meaningful connectivity for all, achieve '1 lakh crore ($12 billion) annual investment in telecom infrastructure, double the export of telecom products and services, create 1 million new jobs in telecom sector and another 1 million workers to be reskilled among others.
To expand the telecommunication network, it has been proposed to devise Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) schemes to expand mobile networks in underserved rural, remote, and urban areas and also introduce incentive schemes for proliferation of fixed line broadband.
The policy proposes to promote advanced technologies and satellite integration. It calls for setting up satcom use case labs for socio-economic applications and enabling ground station as a service (GSaaS) from India.
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