The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has amended the telecom licenses to mandate the use of equipment only from trusted sources from June 15, 2021. This move is widely believed to be India’s first formal step towards keeping Chinese suppliers out of India’s future telecom expansion, including 5G technology roll outs.
Mobile penetration: unique mobile subscribers to the total population is expected to reach around 63% in 2025.
Increase in internet users: Rise in mobile-phone penetration along with decline in data costs is expected to add 500 million new internet users in India.
Untapped rural market: Rural tele-density reached 58.8% and 44.6% of the total wireless subscribers are from rural market
Exploring adjacent businesses in an evolving environment: Moving beyond traditional telecom business to wider digital consumer space like content and mobile banking solutions
The telecom sector in India have to deal with various challenges like maintaining the sufficient spectrum, Adoption of new technologies faster to be able to use new features and techniques to serve the customers with better and feature rich service, Government and regulatory agencies, various mobile handsets available from various companies brings lot of issues and content partners etc. Also, it is evident from the current scenario that the Voice alone will not be sufficient to generate revenue and hence the focus is required to be shifted towards various data services.
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