Digital economy blueprint

7.  Accessibility for people with disabilities: The 

Government must take measures to ensure that dig-

ital services are accessible by visually and hearing 

impaired persons.

8.  Innovation:  Regulators should promote permis-

sionless innovation to enable companies or start-

ups to develop/create new products without being 

required to seek permission from regulators. The 

requirement by regulators that approvals must be 

sought before introduction of innovations or at the 

point of discontinuing them slows down innova-

tion. 

Procedural costs including delay associated with 

waiting for approval from regulators are harmful 

to innovation and competition. Regulators should 

reduce barriers to entry and exit to foster innova-

tion. With regard to mergers, all standards and pro-

cesses should be nondiscriminatory in substance 

and procedurally – Communications providers 

should not be subjected to more onerous standards 

or more burdensome processes than other compa-

nies in the digital ecosystem. Policies above the 

agreed threshold have the effect of increasing costs 

of fixed and mobile connectivity.