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New Delhi , Nov. 3

EXPRESSING concern over the slow uptake of broadband in the country, telecom regulator, TRAI on Thursday asked the Government to reconsider its recommendations pertaining to local loop unbundling and fiscal incentives for broadband.

"The authority would recommend that the Government should conduct a review of the various provisions of broadband policy and should have reconsideration on TRAI's recommendations pertaining to local loop unbundling and fiscal incentives for broadband," the regulator said in its letter to DoT.

Simply put, unbundling of local loop means that fixed line telecom operators would be asked to share their last mile infrastructure with competing service providers including ISPs, to enable them to reach out to a wider base of broadband consumers.

As per the broadband policy issued by the Government in October 2004, a target of 3 million subscribers base for broadband was to be achieved by all the service providers together by the end of 2005, half of which was to be met by PSU telecom operators, BSNL and MTNL.

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