Startups-MSMEs Facilitation Cell
Indigenous industry representatives, including Startups/MSMEs, have requested for a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) at DoT Hq. to address their issues in a timely and effective manner.
Facilitation Cells have been conceived under the Telecom Startups Mission for ease of doing business and promotion of R&D in timely manner.
The Facilitation Cell shall handhold Startups and MSMEs on the following broad activities –
- Taking up the raised issues with concerned units of DoT and other ministries
- Increasing awareness and extending support –
- domestic and abroad market
- import substitution
- export promotion
- meet statutory requirements
- capacity building and training
- Provide inputs to make informed policy/regulatory decisions (Technology trials/PoC, spectrum, IPRs, design-led manufacturing, integrated R&D Telecom efforts, market access, testing & certification, standards, capacity building, etc.)
- Development and maintenance of Bharat Digicom Innovation Network – the one-stop platform for bringing all the DCT stakeholders together
- Identifying and work on intra-ministerial and inter-ministerial gaps to better facilitate Startup & MSME Community
- Facilitation also through DoT field units, including coordination with respective state government agencies, industry, and academia
- Any other item as may be necessary to take forward the Telecom Startups-MSMEs Mission’s objectives
| S. No. | Issues | Nodal/Focal Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Testing as service | TEC |
| 2 | International standards participation | TEC |
| 3 | IPR facilitation, etc. | TEC |
| 4 | USOF Schemes/Pilots/Projects | USOF |
| 5 | Campus network for integration and interoperability testing of 4G/5G/IoT products | C-DoT |
| 6 | R&D collaboration | C-DoT |
| 7 | Consortium | C-DoT |
| 8 | 5G Alliance | C-DoT |
| 9 | Centre of Innovation for IoT/M2M | C-DoT |
| 10 | Spectrum related aspects – Experimental spectrum R&D/Pilots/Field Trials | WPC |
| 11 | Spectrum related aspects – Test zones | WPC |
| 12 | Spectrum related aspects – Identification of unused bands etc. | WPC |
| 13 | Capacity building, Inputs on Policies/policy interventions | NTIPRIT |
| 14 | Facilitate Pilots/Field Trials/PoCs – Network and other infrastructure | BSNL |
| 15 | Facilitate Pilots/Field Trials/PoCs – Handholding | BSNL |
| 16 | DLI & PLI schemes | IC |
| 17 | Hackathons | IC |
| 18 | WTO related issues | IC |
| 19 | Exports/Imports related issues | IC |
| 20 | Technology Trials | IC |
| 21 | PPP-MII | IP |
| 22 | DCIS scheme | IP |
| 23 | Brand building scheme & others | IP |
| 24 | Policy to facilitate integration and testing of indigenous products in TSPs network | AS |
| 25 | Spectrum licensing related issues | AS |
| 26 | 5G Use case trials/adaption etc. | AS |
| 27 | 5G Test Bed Usage | NT |
| 28 | Commercialization of technologies | NT |
| 29 | IoT/M2M technologies and services | NT |
| 30 | Satcomm technologies and services | Satellite |
| 31 | Field level facilitation (State Government agencies / departments, Customs) | DG Telecom Offices |
| 32 | Any other | Concerned Officials |