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Government'll Spend US$ 2 bn on Broadband Service
By
ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, May 26, 2008
According to Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Minister of Communication & IT, the industry will garner US$ 2 billion investment to set up 1,12,000 Community Service Centres in rural India - to provide it with broadband connectivity in 2008-09.
The government will declare its broadband policy shortly, as well as policy for Wi-Max - so that connectivity for broadband particularly for rural India becomes easier and convenient, and the entire countryside is provided with this facility largely under the public-private partnership.
The aim of the new policies is for providing wireless telephone and mobile telephone to almost every households of rural India - as promised by the UPA government by 2010, said the Minister. The industry will unfold its 3G service guidelines by June, and their execution would be effected by end of the current calendar.
Sujata Dev, managing director of TBSL, C S Rao, Chairman, ASSOCHAM Communications Convergence Committee and its Secretary General, D S Rawat jointly called for initiatives, through which voice transfer and internet movement can be run through mobile telephones. In the days to come, everything will move from PCs and TVs to mobile screen and therefore, content access policy and voice transfer regulation should be put in place, so that all entertainment and information can converge on mobile, demanded Dev and Rao.
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