COAI presents a bagful of demands to whosoever assumes power at the Centre

Its 100-day proposal for new govt includes implementation of National Digital Communications Policy 2018, fixing Right of Way for laying optical fibre, pricing of 5G spectrum

Cellular Operators’ Association of India wants the next government to address the issues affecting the financial health of the sector. As part of the its 100-day proposal for the new government the industry wants implementation of the National Digital Communications Policy 2018, fixing the Right of Way (RoW) for laying optical fibre, pricing of the 5G spectrum beside other issues.

“There is customer demand for 5G spectrum and therefore the government should look at the right pricing and quantum of the spectrum which essentially means large-size contiguous spectrum,” COAI Director General Rajan Mathews told Business Standard.

Mathews said that the