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Telecom industry calls for new convergence policy The telecom industry on Saturday urged the government to bring out a comprehensive convergence policy to deal with changing technology. At the Global Telecom Summit organised by Assocham, T V Ramachandran, Chairman, ITU Regional Working Group for Private Sector issues said, “New convergence policy is due for long, as the government has rolled out only its policy initiatives on issues relating to convergence in bits and pieces. Likewise, the policy for content access and IPTV are yet to be framed.” C S Rao, Chairman, Assocham Communications Convergence Committee said that in the days to come, everything will move from PCs and TVs to mobile screen and, therefore, content access policy and voice transfer regulation should be in place to ensure all entertainment and information can converge on mobile. The government had earlier proposed a Convergence law to address issues related to overlapping of telecom and broadcasting sectors. Meanwhile, State Minister for Communication and IT Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia said the Government will invest $2 billion to set up 1.12 lakh Community Service Centres in rural India to providebroadband connectivity in 2008-09.