Thursday, July 15, 2010

Broadband to be the focused area _minister meets telecom operators

Broadband to be the focused area


New Delhi: It seems like Telecom Minister A Raja has become more aggresive these days in addressing the teething issues in telecom sector as he is meeting the telecom players for the second time in seven days.
The minister is meeting the telcos today to discuss the "recent issues in the telecom sector". Industry sources say the meeting would mainly focus on issues related to broadband and how to increase the penetration as fast as possible.
He had convened a meeting with the sector players on 7th of this month mainly to discuss issues related to Trai's 2G proposals in which the regulator suggested that operators holding radiowaves over 6.2 MHz should pay charges at rates linked to 3G prices.
Almost all the telecom players opposed to TRAI's recommendation as they fear if the recommendations are accepted by the DoT, they would have to fork about Rs 20,000 crore for keeping spectrum beyond 6.2 MHz.
The country's second largest mobile player, RCom, however, had welcomed these proposals.
 
Our comments: When govt. itself is focussing how to increase broadband in all areas, BSNL is still struggling to go for all out for broadband connections saying some thing or other.  Problems like non availability of cable, skilled people for removal of faults, shortage of modem etc. hamper our growth.  it is all our duty to see to provide broadband wherever possible at the earliest.  We need not go for blame game hereafter in BSNL.  It is everybody's duty to see to improve the revenue of BSNL.

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