{"id":226560,"date":"2023-02-14T19:47:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=226560"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T07:39:27","slug":"unmet-needs-in-wireless-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unmet-needs-in-wireless-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmet needs in wireless regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Unmet needs in wireless regulations<\/strong>\u201d published in Business Standard<\/strong> on\u00a014th<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concerns associated with telecom sectors in India<\/strong><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The communication sector in India is suffering from various hurdles and there is a need to resolve these.<\/p>\n

What are the problems with the communication sector in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lack of expenditure:<\/strong> The expenditure on roads and railways is twice the amount on communications.<\/p>\n

Lack of proper regulatory policy:<\/strong> The communication sector in India lacks proper policy regulations as seen in the case of Vodafone.<\/p>\n

Vodafone was imposed with retrospective taxes<\/strong> in 2007. However, it was later set aside by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Vodafone and other operators fought licence fees claimed<\/strong> on non-telecom revenues included in aggregate gross revenues (AGR<\/strong>) since 2003 while the interest on dues kept on rising.<\/p>\n

HowevUnmet needs in wireless regulationser, in 2021 a four-year temporary relief package was announced on debt repayments while the interest kept on rising on the dues.<\/p>\n

Due to these improper solutions Vodafone and its operators kept on suffering. However, on 3rd February, the government decided to convert Vodafone\u2019s dues into government-held equity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

These all show the irresponsible behaviour of the government<\/strong> and lack of proper policy measures which made Vodafone to suffer for a decade.<\/p>\n

Wireless policies and the use of optical fibres:<\/strong> As per ICRA, full-scale 5G deployments across India would require expenditure of about Rs 3 trillion because nearly two-thirds of the towers lack fibre connectivity.<\/p>\n

However, looking at the high debt of telecoms and high cost of fibres, it is unexpected that telecommunication companies would invest heavily.<\/p>\n

Therefore, there is an urgent need for the policy makers to come up with wireless policies based on successful models in other countries.<\/p>\n

Other requirements:<\/strong> There is a need to enable 6GHz for Wi-Fi, allow speeds of up to 10 Gbps<\/strong>, and support for local product development<\/strong> and production instead of relying on imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cUnmet needs in wireless regulations\u201d published in Business Standard on\u00a014th February 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Economy Relevance: concerns associated with telecom sectors in India News: The communication sector in India is suffering from various hurdles and there is a need to resolve these. What are the problems… Continue reading Unmet needs in wireless regulations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-226560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704938033},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}