India becomes second largest network
in the world with crossing the landmark of one billion telephone subscribers:
Shri Manoj Sinha
Total broadband connection till March 2017 crosses
276.52 million: Shri Sinha
Mega spectrum
auction fetches highest ever upfront payment of Rs. 32434 crore against 965 MHz
of spectrum since 2012: Shri Sinha
India
Post Payments Bank (IPPB) launches two branches in Raipur and Ranchi: Shri
Sinha
129 Post Office Passport SevaKendras (POPSKs) in
various parts of the country has been agreed with MEA, 50
Operationalized till now: Shri Manoj Sinha
Shri Manoj Sinha, Union Minister of
State for Communications held a Press Conference today to brief about the
initiatives and reforms done by the Ministry in last three years. Shri Manoj
Sinha said that the Ministry of Communications achieved significant mile stones
since May 2014. A number of
initiatives were taken for efficient implementation of policies through
Department of Telecomm and Department of Post. Shri
Sinha said that interests of consumers who use services provided by the
ministry are high on the agenda of the Government.
Three
Years Achievement of the Department of Telecommunication
1. Physical
performance
·
The
Indian telecom sector has made rapid strides during the last few years because
of several reforms and initiatives undertaken by the Department of
Telecommunications.
·
India
now has the second largest network in the world, next only to China. India crossed
the landmark of one billion telephone subscribers in the year 2015-16.
·
Total
subscription now stands at 1194.99 million as on 31.3.2017.
·
501.81
million connections are in rural areas and 693.18 million in the urban areas.
·
The
wireless telephony constitutes 97.96% (1170.59 million) of all subscriptions
whereas share of the landline telephony now stands at 2.04% (24.40 million) at
the end of March, 2017.
·
261.97
million telephones were added during April 2014 to March, 2017 as compared to
86.69 million net addition during the April, 2011 to March 2014.
·
Mobile
phone addition touched 266.07 million during the period from April 2014 to
March 2017 as compared to 92.92 million during the April 2011 to March 2014
·
Total
internet connections as on December 2016 was 391.5 million. Total broadband
connection till March 2017 stood at 276.52 million.
·
139.91
million Internet connections have been added during March 2014 to December
2016.
·
Data
traffic in India has shown a six fold increase from 561 million GB in the first
quarter to 2988 million GB in the third quarter of 2016-17.
·
FDI
equity inflow in telecom sector from April, 2016 to March, 2017 has reached US
$ 5564 million which is more than four times the average inflow of about 1.3
billion annually (since 2013-14).
2. Spectrum reforms
·
The
mega spectrum auction was held in October, 2016 sold 965 MHz of spectrum in
different bands. The auction fetched highest ever upfront payment of Rs. 32434
crore since 2012.
·
Reforms
such as spectrum sharing, trading, and harmonistaion have been done in the year
2016 to facilitate rationalization and optimum use of resources.
3. Other policy reforms
·
The
‘Aadhaar based E-KYC services’ for issuing mobile connections has been
prescribed from September, 2016. Under this, a subscriber can authenticate
himself using his biometrics at the point of sale.
·
One
Nation - Full Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has been allowed since 3rd
July 2015.
4. Projects
·
The
flagship BharatNet program is being implemented to link each of the 2.5 lakh
Gram Panchayats of India through Broadband optical fibre network.
·
As
on date OFC has been laid in 202675 km covering 90027 Gram Panchayats (GPs).
OFC pipes have been laid in 2,24,340 km covering 100934 GPs.
·
Comprehensive
Telecom Development Plan for North-East Region (NER) has been approved to
provide mobile coverage to 8621 uncovered villages, installation of 321 mobile
towers along National Highways and strengthening of transmission network
·
Proposal
to setup 25,000 Public Wi-Fi Hotspots using the block-level infrastructure of
BSNL’s Telephone Exchanges in rural areas has been approved.
·
A
proposal for setting up of 5000 Wi-Fi Chaupals at Gram Panchayat levels in the
18 states of the country by CSC-SPV, at an estimated cost of`100 crore, to be
funded from USOF, has been approved.
·
An
agreement is proposed to be signed with RailTel for setting up Wi-Fi hotspot at
200 at rural railway stations.
5. Consumer centric measures
·
Mobile
phones sold in India now come with a dedicated “panic button” and Global
Positioning System( GPS).
·
Department
of Telecom has launched Tarang Sanchar, a web portal for Information
sharing on Mobile Towers and EMF Emission Compliances. The portal can be
accessed at www.tarangsanchar.gov.in
·
DoT
had launched 1955 Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) in 5 states
on 23/12/2016 and in remaining states on 12/1/2017 and 16/03/2017 for obtaining
public feedback on call drops
·
Both
Government and TRAI are taking all possible steps and pursuing with the TSPs to
address the problem of call drop and bring it down within the permissible
limit.
·
Department
has launched “Twitterseva” on 2nd August 2016 for obtaining
feedback/grievances related to Telecom issues and services from the public.
6. MTNL
·
MTNL
has launched a special program to progressively increase the fibre length by
redeploying the broadband nodes (DSLAMS) near to the subscriber premises in
Delhi and Mumbai thereby reducing copper length and enhancing the quality of
broadband service.
·
MTNL
is in the process of expansion of mobile network by adding 1080 new 3G sites
for upgrading Data handling capacity to 10 Gbps.
·
Provided
Wi-Fi Hotspots with more than 100 Access points at various locations in Delhi
including 7 tourist places i.e. Red Fort, QutubMinar, Lodhi Garden, Humayun
Tomb, PuranaQila and 5 market places i.e. Nehru Place, HauzKhas, Defence
Colony, Arobindo Marg, Green Park.
·
Provided
connectivity to set up 500 Wi-Fi Hotspot by Government of Maharashtra, Project
commissioned on 9th January, 2017.
·
MTNL
provided connectivity at 133 locations for Area Traffic Control Project of
Mumbai Traffic Police for Road Traffic Monitoring.
·
The
free night calling facility was introduced for all landline customers for
making local calls to any network in Delhi and Mumbai between 10 PM to 7 AM.
·
Launched
Android based “My MTNL”APP.
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Introduced
single Pan India Customer Care No.1130.
7. BSNL
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Present
Market Share of BSNL is 9.95% (as on 31.12.2016) which was 8.16% as on
31.12.2015. The total income increased by 7.05% upto third quarter w.r.t.
previous year same period. EBIDTA of BSNL which was (-) 691 CR in 2013-14 has
become (+) 672 CR in 2014-15 & further (+) 3855 CR in 2015-16.
·
Till
date BSNL has provided 5000 Wi-Fi hotspots (approx) in more than 1000
locations.
·
BSNL
is in process of setting up 40,000 Wi-FI hotspots with Mobile data off loading
shortly to provide 4G experience to 2G/3G customers.
·
BSNL
is planning to provide 25,000 hotspots in each of its 25,000 rural exchanges in
2016-17.
·
BSNL
has provided Night free calling (between 9 PM to 7 AM) to all networks for BSNL
customers. Sunday free calling has also been extended.
·
In
Maharashtra Circle 500 villages in Nagpur SSA were provide with internet
facility through Public Wi-FI hotspots with Fund support of State Govt.
·
ECR
CONE (Enhanced Capacity & Resilience of Core Network) has been planned with
an estimated cost Rs.1000 Cr. for higher Data speed Broadband services, leasing
of High capacity Bandwidth to Telecom Operators/ISP’s which will includes
implementation of the Super Highway Transport Network with 100 Gbps line
capacity.
Three
Years Achievement of the Department of Posts
1- IT
Modernization Project
With a total outlay of Rs. 4909 Crore,
the IT Modernization Project of Department of Posts is being carried out and as
a result (a) Data Centre is operational at NaviMumbai, (b) Disaster Recovery
Centre (DRC) has been powered on at Mysore on 15th May, 2015,
(c) So far 23277 Post Offices for Core Banking Solution (CBS) and 25406 Post
Offices for Core Insurance Solution (CIS) have been migrated. Automated Teller
machine (ATM) Services-installed at 980 locations, (d) ATMs are inter-operable
w.e.f. 31-12-2016 and (e) 28252 locations have been networked on a single Wide
Area Network (WAN) and connected to Data Centre.
2-
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has
launched two branches in Raipur and Ranchi. IPPB aims to catalyze financial
inclusion in India, by ensuring that everyone has equal access to financial
services, no matter who they are, what they earn and where they live. IPPB will
take basic banking to the un-banked and the under-banked across all
cross-sections of society.
3- Setting
up of Post Office Passport SevaKendras (POPSKs)
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
and the Department of Posts (DOP) have agreed to utilize the Post Offices in
the various States as Post Office Passport SevaKendras (POPSKs) for delivering
passport related services to the citizens. In current phase, setting up of 129
Post Office Passport SevaKendras (POPSKs) in various parts of the country has
been agreed with MEA. Out of 129, POPSKs at 50 locations have been inaugurated
till 19.05.2017 including Metagalli Post Office, Mysuru in Karnataka and Dohod
Head Office in Gujarat which were the first to commence operations.
4- Mobile
Money Transfer Service:-
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