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  Under the aegis of National Digital Communications Council, ASSOCHAM actively participated in the
formulation of the Policy and was the only chamber that has organized an Industry Workshop on the
implementation model of the National Digital Communications Policy 2018. This year, we would
continue our endeavour in this direction focusing more on 5G and its use cases, technologies like
IOT, financial health of the Sector and its further growth.
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  Pleased to inform that our recommendation of 2 years moratorium on Spectrum Payment was
accepted by the Ministry.
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  Key Focus Areas would be: Financial Health of the Sector; AGR issue; Customs Duty Reduction;
Refund of GST Credit; No GST on Government levies; NDCP Implementation; Rationalization of
Duties & Levies; Review Definition of AGR; Shared duct infra; Common Telecom infra, etc;
Infrastructure & Ease of Doing Business; ROW Portal; Alignment of State Policies with ROW Rules;
Mandatory Testing of Equipment; Issues to manufacturing; Spectrum & Emerging Technologies;
Early allocation of E&V band; IoT/M2M, 5G, WiFi; Security; Privacy & Data Protection; Network
Security; OTT Framework and PPDR.
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