Rewriting telecom policy

Any attempt to understand the maze of India’s telecom policy needs to start with the statement of a few facts. One, at various points in time, the policy favoured various telcos (or groupings of telcos). Two, maximizing revenue has not been the sole objective of the government in allocating spectrum (and thankfully so). And three, because of its recent failure to distinguish policy (imperfect as it may be) from its inept and motivated implementation, the government seems to have embarked on a journey to rewrite policy retrospectively.

Read Full Story>>