The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) yesterday released "Broadband India: Recommendations on Accelerating Growth of Internet and Broadband Penetration." Click here to download this much anticipated 113-page "roadmap" (340kb PDF), which includes analyses of South Korea's and Malaysia's successes in this field.
TRAI identifies 11 major obstacles to broadband Internet growth in India, and makes 12 recommendations for overcoming them. The recommendations include more use of satellite and wireless links, waiving the service tax on ISPs for five years, revenue-sharing between telecom operators and ISPs, new incentives for ISPs to join India's peering exchanges, etc.
But according to a Business Line article on the Sify portal, India's ISPs were not satisfied by these proposals because TRAI did not fix wholesale bandwidth prices or give detailed orders for the dominant telco to open it's "last mile" network.
