Realization by the Government of India (GoI) in the last decade that the targeted economic growth in the country would need expansion of telecommunication services resulted in drafting of National Telecom Policy 1994 and New Telecom policy 1999. These policies lead a way to an era of multiple telecom operators in the country and rapid expansion in the cellular subscriber base. In view of limited spectrum and its allocation to multiple operators, Go1 made many reforms at technicaI and administrative level in order to achieve transparency and efficiency in the process. These included establishment of various independent bodies like TRAI and TDSAT, strengthening existing committees like WPCC and SACFA and drafting of NFAP 2000 and NFAP 2002. The role and interaction among these bodies, to protect the interest of both the operator and user, are first described in the paper. Spectrum allocation methods for various services in India and spectrum efficiency considerations for various technologies like GSM and CDMA are then discussed. Finally, major features of NFAP 2000 and NFAP 2002 including frequency band allocation for WLL, CMTS and IMT-2000 are described in the paper.
Healthcare delivery is becoming a big challenge for the increasing population in the world. This is even a bigger challenge for the developing and under developed countries due to scarce resources. Taking the case of India, where majority population lives in rural areas and far furlong regions like Andaman and Nikobar Islands or eastern parts of the country, getting desired level of medical facilities has become dream for the citizens of these areas. This inadequate healthcare delivery system is facing constraints due to increased number of patients, which is reflecting as long waiting queue, shortage of hospital beds and inadequate intensive care/emergency units. The existing healthcare delivery model, if supported by the modern wireless and web technologies can give solutions to some of the problems and this in turn can make appropriate healthcare feasible for more number of people without their relocation. With the use of information and communication technologies in healthcare many terms like Telemedicine, eHealth and mHealth are frequently used. This paper briefly introduces these terms and proposes new telemedicine mHealth architecture.
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