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The Department of Telecommunications DoT is planning to introduce the second set of telecom reforms soon. It will include simplification of licences and launching portals to help people test the level of radiation from mobile towers.
quot;We are now looking at second generation reforms which include simplifying licences moving from the access spectrum space to backhaul spectrum space and electromagnetic field EMF portal to make it possible for the citizens to test the radiation level from towersquot; Telecom Secretary JS nbsp;Deepak said on Tuesday. He was addressing quot;India Telecom 2016quot; organised jointly by DoT and Ficci.
Deepak said in the last six to eight months there have been huge reforms in the spectrum space like sharing and trading of airwaves. quot;We have adopted a transparent system of allocation of spectrum. There is no longer an environment of spectrum scarcity. So much spectrum is now available with our telcos that it can improve the quality of services including mobile broadbandquot; he said adding that sharing of passive infrastructure and lighter regulations with issuing of self certification are some of the other things.
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The government wants to improve voice and internet connectivity as a third of the country’s population is still without voice connections and two-thirds of it unable to connect to internet because of issues of connectivity digital literacy and absence of content in local languages.
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