ADSL prices now below Arab average for capped plans; 3G prices above average

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning to fine those operators that have failed to meet rural rollout commitments made as part of the shared mobile infrastructure scheme subsidised by the government. The rural rollout scheme, which was launched in 2007 and is funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), called for the deployment of around 7,300 base stations in 500 districts across 27 states that had no mobile coverage. [More]

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