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World-wide, the incumbent, usually the Government owned operator
plays a major role in the development of the telecom sector. In
India, DoT is responsible for the impressive growth in number of
lines from 58.1 lakh on April 1, 1992 to 191 lakh in December 1998,
showing a CAGR of 20%. DoT is expected to continue to play an
important, and indeed, dominant role in the development of the
sector.
Currently, the licensing, policy making and the service provision
functions are under a single authority. The Government has decided
to separate the policy and licensing functions of DoT from the
service provision functions as a precursor to corporatisation. The
corporatisation of DoT shall be done keeping in mind the interests
of all stakeholders by the year 2001.
All the future relationship (competition, resource raising etc.) of
MTNL / VSNL with the corporatised DoT would be based on best
commercial principles.
The synergy of MTNL, VSNL and the coporatised DoT would be utilised
to open up new vistas for operations in other countries.
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