GSMA honours Indian Government

Posted on | February 16, 2007 |

The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association representing more than 700 mobile operators, presented its Government Leadership Award 2007 to India for exceptional achievement in the field of mobile communications policy.

India has been selected because of its success in establishing a framework of policies and regulations, which have enabled and stimulated the growth of mobile telecommunications over the past three years. The Government has transformed the policy and regulatory environment by:

• relaxing rules on foreign direct investment (FDI)- raising the limit for foreign investment in a telecoms company from 49 per cent to 74 per cent
• reducing the access deficit charges payable by mobile operators to the fixed line incumbents
• liberalising the domestic and international long distance markets
• facilitating the sharing of network infrastructure
• simplifying and speeding the planning procedures for new cell sites
• increasing the amount of commercially available spectrum and
• securing spectrum for 3G in the IMT-2000 core band
• stimulating telecommunications equipment manufacturing

The GSMA’s Government Leadership Award was given to Brazil in 2005 and to Pakistan in 2006.

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