Yesterday, DoT (the department of telecommunication) issued guidelines for setting up private networks in India. Parallelly, the DoT made amendments to the existing license conditions to empower the telecom operators to lease their spectrum (acquired through auctions) to facilitate the deployment of private networks. However, the interested entity — wanting to rollout out private network services, can do so only after obtaining a separate license from the DoT. The purpose of this note is to understand what opportunities and challenges exist in the path of setting up private network services.
Opportunities
The following are the opportunities for the operators and the entities wanting to set up private network services.
