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Arrival of 5G to strengthen telecom's linkage to other sectors: DoT Secretary
Nov-19-2019

DoT Secretary Anshu Prakash has said telecom is a critical sector with direct impact on country’s GDP growth, employment and other crucial domains such as healthcare and agriculture, and the arrival of 5G will strengthen this connect. He said the sector is also playing a key role in empowering citizens, contributing to better governance and enhancing transparency.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman RS Sharma has stated that information and communications technologies are all-pervasive, and hence the security of systems and data safety are becoming increasingly important. He also said now that everything is going to ride on this sector, the vulnerability of the sector becomes an important concern, the security of the sector, and safety of the data also become important. Therefore, he said ‘concepts like cyber security, data security, data privacy, become relevant and we need to learn and appreciate the importance they are going to play tomorrow.'

The TRAI chief further said while legal and regulatory systems need to evolve to keep pace with the fastchanging digital world, they should not have a knee jerk evolution. He stated that they should not evolve to strangulate innovation or become an obstacle to the development, they should evolve in a harmonized manner to ensure that while innovations do take place, the growth is orderly. So, he said the approach of regulations in this sector should be facilitating, rather than obstructing.

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