Communication, broadcast a basic service, needs to be provided at lowest cost: Tarun Kapoor
Advisor to Prime Minister Tarun Kapoor said on Tuesday. Speaking at Driving India's Techade: D2M for Bharat — 5G Broadcast Summit, Kapoor said that common men have the right to have all the basics (services).
«How we will deliver that we have to think of.
Either it could be by providing higher wage employment or it could be done by reducing the price of services a person needs or making it available so that the poorest of the poor has all those,» he said.
He was of the view that communication and broadcast is basic (services) and linked to education, health and quality of life.
«So these services have to be delivered at the lowest price and if we have technology which help do that then we have to welcome them,» he added.
The summit aims to deliberate on concrete actions in promoting Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcasting as a major disruption in the mobile broadcasting space.
The D2M broadcasting technology developed by Saankhya Labs and IIT Kanpur leverages terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure and public broadcaster-assigned spectrum to transmit video, audio and data signals directly to compatible mobile and smart devices.
With the potential to reach over a billion mobile devices, the adoption of D2M technology promises transformative benefits.
These include cost reductions in data transmission and access, improvements in network efficiency and resilience, and potentially leading to the establishment of a nationwide emergency alert system.
Citing an example, Kapoor explained about giving free dish (TV DTH) to over six crore households in the country.
He informed that the government will further expand this programme.
