The Telecommunications Act, 2023, passed by Parliament, “is a set of real structural reforms which will hold us good for many, many years,” Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw told The Hindu in an interview. “We are moving away from a licence permit regime to a very calculated authorisation for a long period,” he said. “We have a four-tier structure for dispute resolution as well as a way for telecom companies to self-report violations,” he said.
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