Govt needs to focus on reviving sectoral health, deploy 5G, says telecom industry

The telecom ministry under the new Bharatiya Janata Party-led government will need to nurse the industry back to health, besides laying the ground for the deploying 5G technology in India amid a push to drive the country into the digital age.

For starters, the boiling issues of reviewing of levies and fees such as license fee, spectrum usage charges (SUC) and defining what does the government mean by adjusted gross revenue (AGR), will have to be taken up, said industry executives. These issues have also been highlighted in the National Digital CommunicationsNSE 0.69 % Policy (NDCP), the fast implementation of which will also be a key milestone for the new government to achieve.