All over the world, Information Infrastructure (II) is now realized to be distinct and different from the Information Services (IS), which include telephone, fax, video, data communications and digital content required for electronic commerce, banking, funds transfer, governance, etc. Underlying the II and IS are the advances in micro-electronics and photonics, computers, satellites and radio frequency reuse. The information infrastructure for shortage, transmission and exchange of digitized information consists of optical fibers and satellite microwave radio systems. Optical fiber cables buried in the ground, laid on the bottom of the seas and also hung from electrical poles will provide this infrastructure. The bandwidth that optical fiber cable systems provide is becoming almost infinite, heralding the possibility of communications with hardly any cost. The inexpensiveness of communication is obliterating the distance and time dependence of cost for transmission.

Therefore, there is absolutely no meaning in giving separate licenses for local service, inter-state, national, international and mobile telephony. The Internet, which is based mostly on optical fiber transport and a little on communication satellites, is our global platform on which information can be stored, transported, routed, exchanged and delivered. In several countries telephony is allowed on the Internet. Cellular mobile radio telephony is becoming so cheap that even developing countries like China are installing more mobile telephones than fixed telephones.