No more phones for Bharat

After all the huffing and puffing over the Trai’s latest recommendations, if they only result in phone tariffs rising 3.6 paise per minute, what’s the big deal? And what’s wrong with the proposal on ‘refarming’ spectrum—taking away more efficient spectrum in the 900 MHz band and replacing it with 1800 MHz spectrum? After all, argued a former boss who I called to rant about his newspaper’s editorial supporting Trai, the older telcos who have the 900 MHz spectrum don’t have a God-given right to keep it for the rest of their lives.

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