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Spectrum hoarding.goverment - Financial Express
Apart from the sharp increase in telecom tariffs that will emanate from the Trai proposal to hike one-time spectrum entry costs by 10-11 times over what they are today, another serious issue is that the recommendations will result in around half of India’s spectrum being kept vacant for 5-10 years—that’s a bad idea at most times, but ill-advised when India has the kind of spectrum shortage it has right now.

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Fallacy of political tourism in Pak - Subramanian Swamy, Pioneer
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The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
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