Under NDCP, TRAI seeks industry’s views on unbundled licensing regime

Sector regulator Trai on Monday released a pre-consultation paper on unbundling of different elements of telecom like infrastructure, network, services and application layers through differential licensing.

The move came after the Telecom Department sought the regulator’s recommendation on the issue.

The concept of unbundling of layers through differential licensing is enshrined in the new telecom policy, the ‘National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP), 2018’, Trai noted.

“National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP), 2018, under its ‘Propel India’ mission, envisages one of the strategies as ‘reforming the licensing and regulatory regime to catalyse investments and innovations and promote ease of doing business’,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in a statement.