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Photo credit: http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com) Netizens- citizens who participate in public debate from the comfort of their broadband enabled “home” space- are a furiously engaged and vocal lot in India. 800,000 of them voiced their support for the nebulous concept of “net neutrality” in an outpouring of outraged emotion, similar to the 2011 Arab Spring which put […]
Read More Telecom Service Providers: neutered by the “Indian” Spring(Photo credit: http://www.intelligent-eneregy.com) Now that the Spectrum Big Bazaar auctions are over, it’s time to sift through the smoke and dust of the financial battle and figure out who lost and who won. But before the juicy part, here are the bare facts for those who don’t spend their lives following spectrum auctions. Limited spectrum […]
Read More Selling spectrum: Telecom’s Kohinoor (Reposted by the author from http://swarajyamag.com/)Mihir Sharma’s book (Random House 2015) is the one for you if you are a policy wonk but at a loss for arresting sound bites; a businessperson looking for bright and engaging things to say at your next meeting; a student of economics, politics or sociology grappling with the question why things are so difficult […]
Read More Restart: The last chance for the Indian Economy
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