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Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
India has long suffered from lousy broadband connectivity due to lack of efforts in the expansion of broadband plans. Now things can take a turn very soon, with the release of the draft National Telecom Policy 2018, which seeks to invite comments – indicates that India’s major connectivity will happen in the coming days via the fiber network. Telcos like MTNL, BSNL have constantly missed broadband connectivity targets in the past, and it is due to telcos like Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone that people are able to access the internet using mobile data.
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The draft policy outlines that all Gram Panchayats of India should be able to get 50 Mbps to every citizen and 1 Gbps connectivity by 2020 and should then be able to upgrade it to 10Gbps by the year 2022. Also, after this new draft, there is an impending question whether or not Indian telcos will be able to offer 100 Mbps connection to educational institutions across the country.
Apart from that, there is also the target of establishing a broadband connection in 50% of the households, which speaking from today’s perspective is relatively low since a lot of mobile data users suffer from problems like the bad connection, low data speeds and so on. Broadband connectivity would get rid of these problems and would cater to a fast and reliable internet connection for the household users.
In the draft, there is also included a target for unique mobile subscriber density of 55 which is to be accomplished by the year 2020, and then for the year 2022, the target set for the same was 65. This target is apparently going to encourage telcos to strive for more and more subscribers, along with increased investment. However, there has been no official word about any penalty which will be struck on the telcos if they fail to meet these targets.
