Wrong numbers

Prepare for inflation to catch up with an area relatively immune to it so far - your telecom bill. Government policy is set to raise the price and possibly also lower the quality of an important productivity tool that had empowered the masses. The cabinet has decided to fix the base price for auction of 2G spectrum for GSM operators at a whopping Rs 14,000 crore, and that for CDMA operators at 1.3 times that amount. Shockingly, the GSM reserve price is four times what had been fixed for 3G services, meant for higher-end consumers. It should be remembered that 2G spectrum is for basic services such as voice, used by all classes of Indian society.

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