{"id":118625,"date":"2022-09-26T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=118625"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T07:28:37","slug":"india-to-invest-30-billion-for-4g-5g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-to-invest-30-billion-for-4g-5g\/","title":{"rendered":"India to Invest $30 billion for 4G, 5G"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India to Invest $30 billion for 4G, 5G:<\/strong> India will invest $30 billion for ensuring last mile accessibility to 4G and 5G services in every village, said telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at Global Fintech Fest on Thursday. \u201cWe are investing close to $30 billion to ensure last-mile network accessibility for 4G and 5G in every village across the country. So far we have been able to reach out to over 1.5 lakh gram panchayats. We are now building a highway &#8211; creating a whole ecosystem of village entrepreneurs, channelizing the energies of youngsters to take good quality, high-speed data connectivity to every village in the country while making them a part of the growth journey,&#8221; he said. The minister emphasised. \u201cWe have tested this model and approximately\u00a080,000 new connections\u00a0are now being facilitated every month,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-september-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaishnaw said there are&nbsp;three key areas in fintech for the government&nbsp;\u2013 building a robust digital infrastructure and a digital regulatory framework, along with social inclusion and the societal imperatives around it. Sharing his views on the digital regulatory framework, the minister said that telecom is the very foundation of Digital India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;has given us a clear mandate to overhaul our digital regulatory framework such that it is globally benchmarked and endorses global competitiveness,\u201d said Vaishnaw. Talking about the integration of payment systems across the transportation sectors, he said that while a project was taken up on common mobility, \u201cthe way technology has evolved over the last 5-10 years, I think instead of a card, probably the mobile phone itself will become the common integrating factor\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Telecom Bill:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are currently looking at&nbsp;3-4 legislations cumulatively inclusive of the new telecom bill,&nbsp;the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill and the IT Act of 2000 to create an interactive framework in which the industry\u2019s concerns are addressed by the government and government\u2019s concerns are duly taken into consideration by the industry. Technological navigation has to be modulated such that the interests of end users are protected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India to Invest $30 billion for 4G, 5G: India will invest $30 billion for ensuring last mile accessibility to 4G and 5G services in every village, said telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at Global Fintech Fest on Thursday. \u201cWe are investing close to $30 billion to ensure last-mile network accessibility for 4G and 5G in every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":118629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4926],"tags":[4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-118625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2022","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118667,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118625\/revisions\/118667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118625"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=118625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}