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“New technology will come and it is very disruptive. It comes out with new products and it also disturbs the present players,” said P D Vaghela, Chairman, of Telecom Regulative Authority of India (TRAI). He, along with TRAI Secretary V Raghunandan, interacted with GITAM, Hyderabad faculty on Friday.
“If you cannot concentrate on research, we cannot play in the international value change system. In this system, India’s position is not very much strong. Because of the basic research in communication and broadcasting, we are not very strong. When in the implemental research, we are very strong’ he explained.
He made it clear that TRAI is a regulating authority, but the tariffs are left to the market players. If any new services or new players are introduced, then only TRAI makes recommendations to the government. While speaking on Artificial Intelligence (AI), he narrated that “we are one of the few countries in the world that proposed a comprehensive ecosystem in AI. It can also help in education and health. It has immense benefits. India entering AI, AR, VR, robotics, machine to machine, handle it very well. There are so issues also, very negative and adverse effects on society. We have tried to balance between the two aspects of positivity and the negatives. Any new technology comes, we will start to study,” he pointed out.
While speaking on India’s digital economy, he said that the digitalisation of the economy and society is evocable. It is only increasing. Today the digital economy constitutes about 15 per cent of the total economy. Another 5 to 10 years you can watch the sea change, he felt. “We have done the wonders in the last 10 years in the communication sector; the world is talking about it,” he said.
“We have developed 4G technology and 5G & 6G also. India assumes the leadership position. 4G technology allows the vendors digital transactions that are part of the digital economy,” he said and added that the digital economy would not wait for anyone. The people would not be able to exploit the digital world.
Earlier, the TRAI Chairman and Secretary paid floral tributes to the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi.
Prof VR Sastry, Dean, Core Engineering, GITAM and DVVSR Varma, Resident Director welcomed the guests. Prof P Srinivas, HoD, Mechanical Engineering coordinated this program, and VK Sridhar, Assistant Professor gave a presentation on the wind turbines project. Surya Prakash Gajjala, CEO & MD, Archimedes Green Energy (P) Ltd. also accompanied the TRAI team.
