COAI seeks equitable work, no monopoly under access coverage scheme

Industry body COAI has pushed for an “equitable” distribution of work and subsidy for all four access services providers in covering unconnected villages and asserted that the programme “should not create any monopoly”.

Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad during his interaction with CEOs of telecom companies last month had asked the industry to prioritise connecting 43,000 villages that are without mobile services, by pooling in resources to cover these locations within one year.