The telecommunications industry is made up of cable companies, internet service providers, satellite companies, and telephone companies.
According to a Zenith Media survey, India is expected to become the fastest-growing telecom advertisement market, with an annual growth rate of 11% between 2020 and 2023.
National telecom policy ,1999 Strike a balance between universal services to all uncovered areas and high level services.
Adjusted gross revenue ( Agr) was introduced instead of fixed fees for licence.
In 2008 the Supreme Court of India cancelled the licenses of 122 companies. In 2010 only 13 companies were left in India.
Because of high AGR companies have to face losses that's why many companies don't want to do business in India. If companies leave India so it's impression will have an inverse effect on the new company's investment.
Approximately 25 lakh employment we get from the telecom sector we can lose by this.
Because of this; Airtel, vodafone and idea suffered more . Reliance jio wasn't affected because it had entered with a different mechanism. jio is creating Monopoly and this is not good for the country.
For helping companies, Govt.of India provides help through many schemes like the PLI( Production Linked Incentive), where 33 telecom companies benefit from Rs 12,000 cr .
For avoiding MONOPOLY Bharat communication limited Should be a strong counter against Private operators so that consumers should not be exploited.
Consumers are facing problems like call drop and slow Internet and for that we should take some initiatives like -
Let competition continue among companies .
The demand for reduction in spectrum usage charges and Universal Service Application Fund levy should be accepted.
BSNL should be free from interference of politics and corporate.
- Laxita satpute