India to Roll Out 3G Guidelines in June 2008
The much awaited 3G guidelines may see the light of the day as the Ministry of Communication & IT would roll them out in the month of June 2008 to enhance the mobile phone standards for 100% teledensity and extension of broadband facilities not only in urban India but also its rural part as scheduled by 2010, announced the Telecom & IT Minister. Inaugurating the ASSOCHAM organized 2-day Global Telecom Summit which begun today.
Before the guidelines are rolled out, the Minister said he would meet the Prime Minister to take his guidance on the issue as the Ministry of Communication & IT is totally serious to execute its e-governance programme to connect rural population with broadband internet and all advance facilities by improving its telecom network, said the Minister.
According to him, the broadband facilities would be extended faster as soon as the 3G guidelines are rolled out to every college, school, panchayat, district and bloc levels and finally to about 6,50,000 villages across the country.
With the guidelines being made public as regards the 3G, the controversy relating to spectrum allocations would also come to an end, claimed the minister
According to him, the rural teledensity is less than 10% despite telecom revolution against the urban teledensity of 65% which need to be enhanced at war footing and the government proposes to extend the broadband connectivity to 3 billion people in the rural areas by 2008-09 and finally to entire village population by 2010.
In a bid to connect rural population with advance telecom facilities, the India would extend subsidies to instruments and channels that connect rural population with broadband facilities but the Minister did not elaborate what would be element of subsidy in it.
The USO fund would also be utilized for not only providing telephone and mobile connection to rural India but also players that help telephony reach the countryside, said the Minister.
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