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14. Institutions form the backbone for policy implementation if the policy objectives are to
be fully realised. World over, the telecom regulator plays a critical role in the orderly growth
of the telecommunication industry, balancing the interests of both the consumers and the
service providers. By virtue of the TRAI Act, India has an independent regulator. NTP 2012
seeks to further empower the regulator.
15. NTP-2012 recognises the importance of creation of the robust and resilient telecom
networks for adequately addressing the need for proactive support for mitigating disasters,
natural and manmade.
16. NTP-2012 recognises futuristic roles of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) and its
applications in different sectors of Indian economy.
I. VISION
To provide secure, reliable, affordable and high quality converged telecommunication
services anytime, anywhere for an accelerated inclusive socio-economic development.
II. MISSION
1. To develop a robust and secure state-of-the-art telecommunication network providing
seamless coverage with special focus on rural and remote areas for bridging the digital
divide and thereby facilitate socio-economic development.
2. To create an inclusive knowledge society through proliferation of affordable and high
quality broadband services across the nation.
3. To reposition the mobile device as an instrument of socio-economic empowerment of
citizens.
4. To make India a global hub for telecom equipment manufacturing and a centre for
converged communication services.
5. To promote Research and Development, Design in cutting edge ICTE technologies,
products and services for meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic and global
markets with focus on security and green technologies.
6. To promote development of new standards to meet national requirements, generation
of IPRs and participation in international standardization bodies to contribute in
formation of global standards, thereby making India a leading nation in the area of
telecom standardization.
7. To attract investment, both domestic and foreign.
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8. To promote creation of jobs through all of the above.

III. OBJECTIVES
1. Provide secure, affordable and high quality telecommunication services to all citizens.
2. Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017
and 100 by the year 2020.
3. Provide affordable and reliable broadband-on-demand by the year 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 at least
100 Mbps on demand.
4. Enable citizens to participate in and contribute to e-governance in key sectors like
health, education, skill development, employment, governance, banking etc. to ensure
equitable and inclusive growth.
5. Provide high speed and high quality broadband access to all village panchayats
through a combination of technologies by the year 2014 and progressively to all
villages and habitations by 2020.
6. Promote innovation, indigenous R&D and manufacturing to serve domestic and global
markets, by increasing skills and competencies.
7. Create a corpus to promote indigenous R&D, IPR creation, entrepreneurship,
manufacturing, commercialisation and deployment of state-of-the-art telecom
products and services during the 12
th
five year plan period.
8. Promote the ecosystem for design, Research and Development, IPR creation, testing,
standardization and manufacturing i.e. complete value chain for domestic production of
telecommunication equipment to meet Indian telecom sector demand to the extent of
60% and 80% with a minimum value addition of 45% and 65% by the year 2017 and
2020 respectively.
9. Provide preference to domestically manufactured telecommunication products, in
procurement of those telecommunication products which have security implications for
the country and in Government procurement for its own use, consistent with our World
Trade Organization (WTO) commitments.
10. Develop and establish standards to meet national requirements, generate IPRs, and
participate in international standardization bodies to contribute in formulation of global
standards, thereby making India a leading nation in the area of international telecom
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standardization. This will be supported by establishing appropriate linkages with
industry, R&D institutions, academia, telecom service providers and users.
11. Simplify the licensing framework to further extend converged high quality services
across the nation including rural and remote areas. This will not cover content
regulation.
12. Strive to create One Nation - One License across services and service areas.
13. Achieve One Nation - Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation -
Free Roaming.
14. Reposition the mobile phone from a mere communication device to an instrument of
empowerment that combines communication with proof of identity, fully secure
financial and other transaction capability, multi-lingual services and a whole range of
other capabilities that ride on them and transcend the literacy barrier.
15. Encourage development of mobile phones based on open platform standards.
16. Deliver high quality seamless voice, data, multimedia and broadcasting services on
converged networks for enhanced service delivery to provide superior experience to
users.
17. Put in place a simplified Merger & Acquisition regime in telecom service sector while
ensuring adequate competition.
18. Optimize delivery of services to consumers irrespective of their devices or locations by
Fixed-Mobile Convergence thus making available valuable spectrum for other wireless
services.
19. Promote an ecosystem for participants in VAS industry value chain to make India a
global hub for Value Added Services (VAS).
20. Ensure adequate availability of spectrum and its allocation in a transparent manner
through market related processes. Make available additional 300 MHz spectrum for
IMT services by the year 2017 and another 200 MHz by 2020.
21. Promote efficient use of spectrum with provision of regular audit of spectrum usage.
22. De-licensing additional frequency bands for public use.
23. Recognize telecom as Infrastructure Sector to realize true potential of ICT for
development.
24. Address the Right of Way (RoW) issues in setting up of telecom infrastructure.
25. Mandate an ecosystem to ensure setting up of a common platform for interconnection
of various networks for providing non-exclusive and non-discriminatory access.
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26. Strengthen the framework to address the environmental and health related concerns
pertaining to the telecom sector.
27. Enhanced and continued adoption of green policy in telecom and incentivise use of
renewable energy sources for sustainability.
28. Protect consumer interest by promoting informed consent, transparency and
accountability in quality of service, tariff, usage etc.
29. Strengthen the grievance redressal mechanisms to provide timely and effective
resolution.
30. Strengthen the institutional framework to enhance the pace of human capital
formation and capacity building by assessing and addressing educational and training
needs of the sector.
31. Encourage recognition and creation of synergistic alliance of public sector and other
organisations of Department of Telecommunications (DoT). This should be achieved
through appropriate policy interventions and support for optimum utilisation of their
resources and strengths in building a robust and secure telecom and information
infrastructure.
32. Evolve a policy framework for financing the sector consistent with long term
sustainability.
33. Put in place appropriate fiscal and financial incentives required for indigenous
manufacturers of telecom products and R&D institutions.
34. Achieve substantial transition to new Internet Protocol (IPv 6) in the country in a
phased and time bound manner by 2020 and encourage an ecosystem for provision of a
significantly large bouquet of services on IP platform.
35. Strengthen the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework and re-engineer processes
to bring in more efficiency, timely decision making and transparency.
36. Put in place a web based, real time e-governance solution to support online submission
of applications including processing, issuance of licences and clearances from DoT.

IV. STRATEGIES
1. BROADBAND, RURAL TELEPHONY AND UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION FUND (USOF)
1.1. To develop an eco-system for broadband in close coordination with all
stakeholders, including Ministries/ Government Departments/ Agencies to ensure
availability of media for last mile access, aggregation layer, core network of
adequate capacity, affordable equipment including user devices, terminals and
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Customer Premise Equipment and an environment for development of relevant
applications. Formulate policies to promote competition by encouraging service
providers, whether large or small, to provide value added services under equitable
and non-discriminatory conditions.
1.2. To recognise telecom, including broadband connectivity as a basic necessity like
education and health and work towards ‘Right to Broadband’.
1.3. To lay special emphasis on providing reliable and affordable broadband access to
rural and remote areas by appropriate combination of optical fibre, wireless, VSAT
and other technologies. Optical fibre network will be initially laid up to the village
panchayat level by funding from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).
Extension of optical fibre connectivity from village panchayats to be taken up
progressively to all villages and habitations. Access to this Optical Fibre Network
will be open, non-discriminatory and technology neutral.
1.4. Provide appropriate incentives for rural rollout.
1.5. To revise the existing broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps and
subsequently to 2 Mbps by 2015 and higher speeds of at least 100 Mbps
thereafter.
1.6. To encourage Fibre To The Home (FTTH) with enabling guidelines and policies,
favouring fast transformation of cities and towns into Always Connected society.
1.7. To incorporate enabling provisions in the current regulatory framework so that
existing infrastructure including cable TV networks are optimally utilised for
extending high quality broadband services in rural areas also.
1.8. To establish appropriate institutional framework to coordinate with different
government departments/agencies for laying and upkeep of telecom cables
including Optical Fibre Cables for rapid expansion of broadband in the country.
1.9. To leverage the mobile device and SIM Card with enhanced features for enabling
secure transactional services including online authentication of identity and
financial services.
1.10. To promote synergies between roll-out of broadband and various Government
programs viz e- governance, e-panchayat, MNREGA, NKN, AADHAR, AAKASH tablet
etc.
1.11. To ensure availability of adequate spectrum to meet current and future demand
for microwave access/ backhaul, in appropriate frequency bands.
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1.12. To stimulate the demand of broadband applications and services, work closely with
Department of IT in the promotion of local content creation in regional languages
which would enhance the investment in All-Internet Protocol (IP) networks
including NGN.
1.13. To promote the use of energy efficient equipment and renewable energy
technologies to achieve long term sustainability.
1.14. To undertake periodic review of methodology adopted for utilising USO fund and
benchmarking the same against the best practices followed in other countries.
1.15. To provide continued support from USO fund for telecom services, including
converged communication services in commercially unviable rural and remote
areas.
2. R&D, MANUFACTURING AND STANDARDIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATION
EQUIPMENT
2.1. To promote R&D, design, development and manufacturing in the domestic
telecom equipment manufacturing.
2.2. To create a road-map to align technology, demand, standards and regulations for
enhancing competitiveness of domestic manufacturing.
2.3. To set up a Council consisting of experts from Telecom Service Providers, Telecom
Manufacturing Industry, Government, Academia and R&D institutions. The Council
would:
2.3.1. Carry out technology and product development forecast.
2.3.2. Evolve, and periodically update the national program for technology/product
development.
2.3.3. Be a nodal group to monitor and ensure the implementation of various
recommendations made for promoting indigenous R&D, IPR creation, and
manufacturing and deployment of products and services.
2.4. To promote synergy amongst manufacturers, R&D centres, academia, service
providers and other stakeholders for achieving collaboration and reorientation of
their efforts for development and deployment of new products and services suited
to Indian environment and meeting security needs of the country.
2.5. To assist entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize Indian products by making
available requisite funding (pre-venture and venture capital), management and
mentoring support.
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2.6. To create fund to promote indigenous R&D, Intellectual Property creation,
entrepreneurship, manufacturing, commercialising and deployment of state-of-the-
art telecom products and services.
2.7. To promote setting up of Telecommunications Standard Development
Organisation (TSDO) as an autonomous body with effective participation of the
government, industry, R&D centres, service providers, and academia to drive
consensus regarding standards to meet national requirements including security
needs. It will facilitate access for all the stakeholders in the International Standards
Development Organisations and act as an advisory body for preparation of national
contributions for incorporation of Indian requirement/IPRs/standards in the
international standards.
2.8. To notify specific guidelines for according preference to domestically
manufactured telecommunication equipment and products either for reasons of
security or for Government procurement in accordance with relevant government
decisions and policies in this regard.
2.9. To incentivise telecom service providers to use indigenous products by
encouraging:
2.9.1. Commitment to purchase Indigenous products that are comparable in price
and performance to imported products.
2.9.2. Commitment to participate in trials of newly created Indigenous products,
nurture them and place pilot orders.
2.9.3. Funding R&D and support Indian IPR creation and participate in creation of
standards.
2.10. To support Electronic Design and Manufacturing Clusters for design, development
and manufacture of telecommunication equipment.
2.11. To facilitate provision of appropriate fiscal incentives through a Modified Special
Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS) in manufacturing of telecom equipment.
2.12. To mandate testing and certification of all telecom products for conformance,
performance, interoperability, health, safety, security, EMF/EMI/EMC, etc. to
ensure safe-to-connect and seamless functioning in the existing and future
networks.
2.13. To create suitable testing infrastructure for carrying out conformance testing,
certification and to aid in development of new products and services. These state-
of-the-art labs/infrastructure would be suitably positioned to make them available
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to engineering/academic institutions to assist the scholars in telecom product
development.
2.14. To appropriately incentivise export of telecom equipment and services. Synergies
among the various telecom players (manufacturers and service providers) would be
leveraged to provide integrated communication solutions for exports.
2.15. To facilitate putting in place a stable tax regime for telecom equipment
manufacturing.
2.16. To provide appropriate incentives to the Indian product manufacturers for
domestic deployment and exports.
3. LICENSING, CONVERGENCE AND VALUE ADDED SERVICES
3.1. To orient, review and harmonise the legal, regulatory and licensing framework in a
time bound manner to enable seamless delivery of converged services in a
technology and service neutral environment. Convergence would cover:
3.1.1. Convergence of services i.e. convergence of voice, data, video, Internet
telephony (VoIP), value added services and broadcasting services.
3.1.2. Convergence of networks i.e. convergence of access network, carriage
network (NLD/ ILD) and broadcast network.
3.1.3. Convergence of devices i.e. telephone, Personal Computer, Television, Radio,
set top boxes and other connected devices.

3.2. To facilitate convergence of local cable TV networks post digitalisation.
3.3. To move towards Unified Licence regime in order to exploit the attendant benefits
of convergence, spectrum liberalisation and facilitate delinking of the licensing of
Networks from the delivery of Services to the end users in order to enable
operators to optimally and efficiently utilise their networks and spectrum by
sharing active and passive infrastructure. This will enhance the quality of service,
optimize investments and help address the issue of the digital divide. This new
licensing regime will address the requirements of level playing field, rollout
obligations, policy on merger & acquisition, non-discriminatory interconnection
including interconnection at IP level etc. while ensuring adequate competition.
3.4. To put in place a liberalized merger and acquisition policy with necessary
thresholds, while ensuring adequate competition.
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3.5. To delink spectrum in respect of all future licences. Spectrum shall be made
available at a price determined through market related processes.
3.6. New Unified licensing regime will provide flexibility to operators to operate any or
all segment of services of the total basket of services provided in the scope of
licence. The entry fee regime will also be made flexible accordingly.
3.7. To promote introduction of area specific services and applications.
3.8. To facilitate resale at the service level under the proposed licensing regime – both
wholesale and retail, for example, by introduction of virtual operators – in tune
with the need for robust competition at consumer end while ensuring due
compliance with security and other license related obligations.
3.9. To frame appropriate Policies for new licensing framework, migration of existing
licensees to new framework, exit policy, measures for ensuring adequate
competition etc. in consultation with TRAI.
3.10. To put in place an appropriate regulatory framework for delivery of VAS at
affordable price so as to fuel growth in entrepreneurship, innovation and provision
of region specific content in regional languages.
3.11. To put in place a framework to regulate the carriage charges, which are content
neutral and based on the bandwidth utilisation. This will also encourage non value
added services such as provision of data and information over the mobile platform.
3.12. To endeavour to make available Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite
(GMPCS) compliant with security requirements.
3.13. To extend Intra-circle mobile number portability facility on nationwide basis so
that the users can retain their mobile number while shifting from one service area
to another, irrespective of the service provider.
3.14. To review roaming charges with the ultimate objective of removing the roaming
charge across the nation.
3.15. To enable and enforce the VOIP facility to enhance consumer affordability.
4. SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
4.1. To move at the earliest towards liberalisation of spectrum to enable use of
spectrum in any band to provide any service in any technology as well as to permit
spectrum pooling, sharing and later, trading to enable optimal utilisation of
spectrum through appropriate regulatory framework.
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4.2. To undertake periodic audit of spectrum utilisation to ensure its efficient use.
4.3. To refarm spectrum and allot alternative frequency bands or media to service
providers from time to time to make spectrum available for introduction of new
technologies for telecom applications.
4.4. To prepare a roadmap for availability of additional spectrum every 5 years.
4.5. To make available adequate globally harmonised IMT spectrum in 450 MHz, 700
MHz, 1800 MHz, 1910 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz bands and other
bands to be identified by ITU for commercial mobile services.
4.6. To identify additional frequency bands periodically, for exempting them from
licensing requirements for operation of low power devices for public use.
4.7. To consider requirement of spectrum in certain frequency bands in small chunks at
specified locations for encouraging indigenous development of technologies/
products and their deployment.
4.8. To review the existing geographical unit of allocation of spectrum with a view to
identifying scope for optimization.
4.9. To promote use of white spaces with low power devices, without causing harmful
interference to the licensed applications in specific frequency bands by deployment
of Software Defined Radios (SDRs), Cognitive Radios (CRs), etc.
4.10. To establish and strengthen Institute of Advanced Radio Spectrum Engineering
and Management Studies (IARSEMS) as a Government Society for undertaking
policy research in radio spectrum engineering, management/radio monitoring and
related aspects.
5. TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURE/ ROW ISSUES, GREEN TELECOM, CLEAR SKYLINE,
MITIGATION EFFORTS DURING DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES
5.1. To emphasize the active role of both private sector and Government including the
State Governments and Local bodies to enable the growth of telecom infrastructure
necessary for meeting the telecommunication demand of the country and
leveraging USOF where appropriate.
5.2. To work towards recognition of telecom as Infrastructure Sector for both wireline
and wireless and extension of the benefits available to infrastructure sectors to
telecom sector also, to realize true potential of ICT for development.