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The pandemic and work-from-home culture has driven the need for seamless connectivity inside residential buildings and multiple data users within a family - from children taking online classes to professionals working remotely from home - have underlined the importance of good coverage in every nook and corner of the house, SK Gupta noted.
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Minimum standards need to be developed for provision of telecom services within buildings and residential complexes and the wrong mindset that telcos should pay to get access for laying down infrastructure in housing complexes must change, a senior TRAI official said. The growth of telecommunications, the underlying critical infrastructure , is closely linked to growth of every sector and the economy as a whole, TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) Secretary, SK Gupta said.
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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