Input Tax Credit must be paid on towers: TAIPA
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Last Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 05:07 PM IST
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Synopsis Currently, the telecom infrastructure providers can not avail of the Input Tax credit against GST paid by them on telecom towers, which acts as an impediment to make further investments,” said T.R.Dua, Director-General, Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA).
New Delhi: India’s telecom tower body has urged the telecom department and finance ministry for inclusion of towers in the definition of items eligible to avail input tax credit under the GST Act. Currently, the telecom infrastructure providers can not avail of the Input Tax credit against GST paid by them on telecom towers, which acts as an impediment to make further investments,” said T.R.Dua, Director-General, Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA).
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India’s Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has written to the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), hoping to get speedy implementation of recommendations on infrastructure sharing policy.
In fact, as Indian press reports indicate, TAIPA has been following up on recommendations issued nearly a year ago, in March 2020, when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended allowing active infrastructure sharing of telecommunications access networks under the IP-1 category. The recommendations were made by the TRAI in a report c
Optic fibre contributes major part of telecom carriers infrastructure spend: Sterlite Tech
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Following the demand triggered by service providers aggressive Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) strategy, and upcoming fifth generation (5G) networks, the Pune-based predominant optic-fibre producer is planning to invest Rs 300-crore to boost its production capacity. Optical fibre infrastructure is the cornerstone for achieving the goals of Digital India vision. Fibre networks are at the core to address the digital divide in the country, Anand Agarwal, group chief executive Sterlite Technologies said.
NEW DELHI: Optic-fibre cable or OFC contributes a major pie of the Indian telecom carriers expenditure on creating digital infrastructure which is also a backbone to achieve Centre s ambitious
New Delhi: Optical fibre laying needs to increase nearly four times to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of connecting every village with broadband within 1,000 days, Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (Taipa) said Tuesday.
Besides, government projects like smart cities, rollout of emerging technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, internet of things etc call for connecting all mobile towers in the country with optical fibre cables (OFC), Taipa said.
“Prime Minister laid out the vision in August 2020, to connect every village in the country with OFC in 1,000 days. To achieve this vision, the cables would have to be laid at nearly 3.6 times the current speed, up from the existing average of 350 kilometer a day to over 1,251 kilometers a day,” Taipa Director-General TR Dua told PTI.
Reinventing âDissentâ: Attacks On Jioâs Telecom Infra
by Kanchan Gupta - Dec 30, 2020 10:23 AM
Destroying infrastructure is nothing less than terrorism.
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What merits comment is the intelligentsiaâs failure to call out the multiple organised targeted attacks on critical communications infrastructure in a strategically located border state for what it is: Terrorism by another name.
Instead, the Commentariat prefers to call it âdissentâ.
There was a time, before the authority of the state was re-established over much of Indiaâs âRed Corridorâ, when Maoists would routinely attack and destroy telecommunication towers, especially in Chhattisgarhâs Bastar. These attacks on strategic communications infrastructure were not random acts of violence. They were designed to show the state as weak; interrupt development work in the hinterland; and, disrupt telecommunications which are crucial both for civil administration and counter-