TRAI suggests measures to Govt to lower Broadband costs and improve penetration

[Navjot Singh]

Telecom regulator Trai on Friday asked the government to exempt fixed line broadband service from licence fee for at least 5 years and suggested a series of measures to expedite the roll out of high speed network.

It has suggested allowing telecom operators to bundle desktops, laptops, tablets and so on with their broadband schemes. "Revenues from such offers ought to be exempted from the applicable license fee at least for a certain number of years (say for three years)."

The government needs to come out with policy to ease cost burden on telecom companies in laying out underground fibre, it suggested.

Khullar said that to push mobile broadband, government needs to either provide more spectrum or audit spectrum held by organisation to check if they are efficiently using it.

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And as usual, Govt will ignore all such measures.