The Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication met under the Chairmanship of Member National Assembly (MNA) Ali Khan Jadoon, in
Parliamentary Panel pulls up DoT for Bharatnet cabinet note delay, questions BSNL ouster in LWE project
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The Department of Telecom has not prepared a cabinet note for the adoption of PPP mode to expedite implementation of rural broadband project Bharatnet even after over a year of Digital Communication Commission s approval, Standing Committee on Information Technology said in a report.
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The Department of Telecom has not prepared a cabinet note for the adoption of PPP mode to expedite implementation of rural broadband project Bharatnet even after over a year of Digital Communication Commission s approval, Standing Committee on Information Technology said in a report. The BharatNet project, meant to cover all 2.5 lakh village panchayats with high-speed broadband, was set to be completed by March 2019. However, it could only connect 1.18 lakh gram panchayats (GPs).
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5G in India may not roll out in 2021 as country still in beginning phase, says parliamentary panel
The panel, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, concluded that sufficient preparatory work has not been undertaken for the launching of 5G services in India.
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5G may not roll out widely in 2021 as India has not moved beyond the modest beginning phase, a parliamentary panel noted on Monday.
The Standing committee has been informed that 5G will roll out in India to some extent for specific uses, by the end of the calendar year 2021 or beginning of 2022.
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5G to roll out in India by early-2022; parliamentary panel pulls up DoT for delay
The government expects that the roll-out of 5G services will begin in early-2022 after another round of spectrum auction that is planned to be held after six month, according to a panel report tabled in Parliament on Monday. The Standing Committee on Information Technology pulled up the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for delay in the launch of 5G services when several countries have commercially rolled out the next-generation technology.
The telecom ministry has already announced the auction of spectrum worth Rs 3.92 lakh crore from March 1, but it does not include the desired frequency band for 5G services.