Vodafone Idea (Vi) are likely to push the government to revise a key spectrum policy document, to include the new 5G airwave bands approved by the International Telecom Union (ITU) for speedy auctioning of the 26 Ghz millimetre waves for ultra-fast wireless broadband service in India.
The Big 3 telcos are likely to voice their concerns to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) as the National Frequency Allocation Plan (NFAP-2018) has not been updated by the department’s wireless planning cell (WPC) more than a year after several new airwave bands, including the 26 Ghz spectrum, were identified by the ITU for 5G deployments worldwide, including in India.
Reinventing âDissentâ: Attacks On Jioâs Telecom Infra
by Kanchan Gupta - Dec 30, 2020 10:23 AM
Destroying infrastructure is nothing less than terrorism.
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What merits comment is the intelligentsiaâs failure to call out the multiple organised targeted attacks on critical communications infrastructure in a strategically located border state for what it is: Terrorism by another name.
Instead, the Commentariat prefers to call it âdissentâ.
There was a time, before the authority of the state was re-established over much of Indiaâs âRed Corridorâ, when Maoists would routinely attack and destroy telecommunication towers, especially in Chhattisgarhâs Bastar. These attacks on strategic communications infrastructure were not random acts of violence. They were designed to show the state as weak; interrupt development work in the hinterland; and, disrupt telecommunications which are crucial both for civil administration and counter-
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