Telecom ministerhas said the government will give considerable relief to a sector under stress due to intense competition and high debt. In an interview withand, Sinha said the government can further address pain points in the new telecom policy (NTP), which will be in place by March 2018. He also said the four to five players will ensure competition and no cartelisation, which will protect consumer tariffs. We will have four to five players remaining after consolidation — Airtel, Jio, Idea-Voda RCom-Aircel , and public sector telcos BSNL and MTNL. We must think a lot of things can be done in the country based on the telecom sector.

Source: Economic Times September 01, 2017 18:56 UTC