Trai initiatives to ease industry’s financial stress: Vaghela, chairman

NEW DELHI: The number of initiatives taken by the telecom regulator would eventually help the telecom sector to reduce financial stress, and deploy infrastructure more rapidly, the top official said.

“We have recommended many things (to ease stress) like sharing of infrastructure that will help cost to come down,” PD Vaghela, chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) told ETTelecom, adding that the regulator was also working on ease of doing business, as a part of the Right-of-Way (RoW) regime.

Vaghela further said that the telecom watchdog would soon come out with its views on RoW and in-building solutions (IBS) deployment which would facilitate the introduction of 5G that requires special kind of infrastructure even within the premises.