12th Five Year Plan
Twelfth Plan Targets for the Telecommunication Sector
- Provision of 1200 million connections by 2017.
- Mobile access to all villages and increase rural tele-density to 70 per cent by 2017.
- Broadband connection of 175 million by 2017.
- Commissioning of National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)
- Make available additional 300 MHz of spectrum for IMT services
- Making India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing by incentivising domestic manufacturers with thrust on IPR, product development and commercialisation.
- Provide preferential market access for indigenously manufactured products.
- To increase domestic manufactured products in telecom network to the extent of 60 per cent with value addition of 45 per cent by 2017.
- Adoption of green policy in Telecom and incentivise use of renewable energy sources.