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Telecom Centre of Excellence to be set up at IIT research park
CHENNAI: A high-level panel constituted at the initiative of the Prime Minister’s Office to explore unused frequency bands in the spectrum held by Defence forces as well as alternatives for quick release of the resource for mobile telephony, is scheduled to meet in another week’s time, Union Communications and IT Minister A. Raja said here on Friday.
India’s R&D Centres of Excellence
Centers of Excellence (CoEs) aim at making India globally competitive by leveraging the public-private partnership model for development of cuttingedge technologies. A curtain raiser..
Telecom Entrepreneurship Development Centre: Special Telecom fund for rural areas
The UPA government proposes to set up India Telecom Innovation Fund (ITIF) to incubate technologies and support 20 ‘start up’ telecom entrepreneurs who could help benefit growth of wireless telephony in rural India. This is part of the telecom department’s move to make telecom industry expansion inclusive and take its benefits to ‘aam admi’. Telecom penetration in rural India is as low as 15 percent as against 88 percent in metros and smaller cities. ITIF will be set up with seed money from Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) that has about Rs 15,000 crore unused fund. However, size of the fund is yet to be decided.