NEW DELHI: The date for receipt of feedback on the draft New Telecom Policy has been extended to 9 December to ‘accord adequate time for wider consultation’.

According to a press note by the Department of Telecommunications in the Communications and Information Technology Ministry, the draft NTP-2011 was released by Minister Kapil Sibal on 10 October and made available on the website of Department of Telecommunications for inviting feedback, comments and suggestions.
 
The Policy announced by the Government will aim to ‘address and enable the coordinated action to respond to the dynamic needs resulting from confluence of telecom, broadcasting and IT sectors.’
 
The aim will be to move towards a Unified Licence regime in order to exploit the attendant benefits of convergence, for which there is already an in-principle acceptance. A migration path will also have to be provided for existing licensees to Unified Licence Regime.