Event
Opening India's Spectrum
- When
- Thu 14 Jan 2010, 8:30 PM – Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:00 PM IST
- Where
- CIS Office, D-2, 3rd Floor, Shariff Chambers, 14 Cunningham Road, Bangalore 560 052
- Contact
- Pranesh Prakash · +91 80 40926283
India's Government monopolised the radio spectrum until the mid-1990s and even now, non-governmental use of wireless is more limited than in other democracies. Restrictive policies constrain the growth of mobile telephony, broadcasting, wireless broadband and many other services important to India's social and economic development. Can anything be done to change this? Robert Horvitz, director of Open Spectrum Foundation suggests changes.
), and author of the Local Radio Handbook, is visiting India to study this question and suggest strategies for citizen action to reform radio regulation. On Thursday, 14 January, at 18:00 he will discuss some of his preliminary findings at the Centre for Internet and Society.
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