Dialling sense

Considering how telecom has been at the forefront of the damage to the India story, it is only fitting that it be part of the attempt to bring back a little bit of the shine. The damage, to telecom and to the government, began with then telecom minister A Raja handing out licences to a chosen few firms at bargain-basement rates in 2008; the damage got compounded when, after the Supreme Court cancelled the licences issued by the government, the authorities never offered to even compensate those who had officially paid market prices—to the private players who benefited from Raja’s largesse—for these.

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