FREE ROAMING IN INDIA - ONE NATION - ONE MOBILE NUMBER

The Government of India today approved National Telecom Policy 2012 that seeks to do away with roaming charges in the country and Simplifies the licensing Policy.The much awaited policy will be implemented soon in India , now mobile users will be able to enjoy free roaming and keep their phone number even if they plan to change their service operator across the country . So Now Saying of One Nation - One mobile number will be true.


With this new policy Spectrum issue will also resolved. There will be now One Nation - One License policy. Now telecom operators would not  require any separate license for operation in different parts of the country , a single license will be enough.


So positive point is Now mobile user can travel across the country without any incoming charges and keep one mobile number at any part of the country, No state barrier.


The thrust areas of the New Telecom Policy-2012 are:

-Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020


Broadband -"'Broadband For All" at a minimum download speed of 2 Mbps 

Repositioning of Mobile phone as an instrument of empowerment

Liberalization of Spectrum - any Service in any Technology 

Domestic Manufacturing - Making India a global hub

Convergence of Network, Services and Devices

Simplification of Licensing regime - Unified Licensing, delinking of Spectrum from License, Online real time submission and processing


Voice over Internet Protocol 

Consumer Focus - Achieve One Nation - Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation - Free Roaming

Resale of Services

Cloud Computing, Next Generation Network including IPV6