No charges For Roaming From Now Onwards In India

The Cabinet on Thursday approved a new telecom policy 

that proposes to abolish roaming charges on mobile phones 

and allow users to retain the same number across the country. 

 The thrust areas of the New Telecom Policy-2012 are:-
 

    Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 39 to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020

    Repositioning of Mobile phone as an instrument of empowerment

    Broadband -"'Broadband For All" at a minimum download speed of 2 Mbps

    Domestic Manufacturing - Making India a global hub

    Convergence of Network, Services and Devices

    Liberalisation of Spectrum - any Service in any Technology

    Simplification of Licensing regime - Unified Licensing, delinking of Spectrum from License, Online  real time submission and processing.

    Consumer Focus - Achieve One Nation - Full Mobile Number Portability
    and work towards One Nation - Free Roaming

    Resale of Services

    Voice over Internet Protocol

    Cloud Computing, Next Generation Network including IPV6.