Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra on Friday called for making telecom connectivity part of common ducts inside new buildings. He said digital connectivity has become one of the basic amenities like electricity and water connections in homes. This is new India. We cannot do without it (telecom connectivity). Any new building that we are going to construct, every house, every room must have connectivity. Like you cannot do without electricity, like you cannot do without water, so is the telecom connectivity, Mishra said at a Broadband India Forum event. The National Digital Communications Policy 2018 proposes to set up common service ducts and utility corridors in all new city and high road projects and related elements.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the India of today is full of self-confidence which got also reflected at the frontiers.Congratulating the IT industry for its growth even during the pandemic-hit year in his address at the .
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On 22 January 2021, the Competition Commission of India (CCI)
published its market study on the Indian telecom sector (Market
Study). Initiated by the CCI in January 2020 as part of its
advocacy measures, the Market Study aims to analyse competition
challenges in the wake of technological innovations, and regulatory
changes.
The Market Study s key findings and highlights are
summarised below:
Parameters of competition - a shift from price to non-price
factors
While tariffs are the primary competitive factor in the
price-sensitive Indian telecom market, there is a marked shift in