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GoI faces challenge of addressing unpaid AGR dues by telecom companies, with Vi seeking urgent equity conversionGoI faces the challenge of addressing unpaid AGR by telecom companies as Vi seeks urgent equity conversion permissions. The authorities exp...
Line is clear for a just transitionIndia's telecom sector is undergoing a regulatory shift from licensing to rule-based oversight. This change aims to modernize the framework...
View: GoI's focus on capex to address infrastructure and energy deficits pays offThe GoI's focus on increasing capital expenditure (capex) to address infrastructure and energy deficits has been significant. Public capex ...
Commandeering heights: Shift from disinvestment to enhancing PSU value is smart economics and nifty politicsPSU reform and privatisation have been ongoing since the times of Rajiv Gandhi, P V Narasimha Rao, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Under Narendra...
Departures that inspire confidenceThe Telecommunications Bill 2023 represents a departure from traditional spectrum allocation methods, allowing the Government of India to a...
Sebi exempts govt from making open offer to VIL shareholdersNew Delhi, May 25 (PTI) Markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday exempted the government from making an open offer to the shareholders of Vodafo...
5G spectrum price, try again, TRAISpectrum price is not the only obstacle to India's 5G rollout. There is also haziness in policy. Reconnecting towers with optical fibre run...
View: It is time for BSNL to go down the privatisation path, just like Air IndiaLast month, GoI stepped in at a critical juncture to provide a much-needed lifeline to the struggling telecom sector, particularly Vodafone...
Will the new telecom relief package help the ailing industry? A former bureaucrat decodesThis package is expected to provide much-needed relief not just to the ailing telecom sector as a whole, but also to Vodafone Idea (Vi) ind...
View: India needs a new service cadre — an Indian Digital Service (IDS)India needs an exclusive and new all-India service cadre — an Indian Digital Service (IDS) — part of the civil service and recruited primar...
Why India's ailing telecom sector needs 1999-style bold reformsIndia’s telecom growth story post-NTP-99 is considered a huge success story of reforms, leading to a massive growth in tele-density and eco...
View: It’s in mutual interest of India and Vi to find a new solutionA perpetual challenge for lawmakers on economic policy has been that of balancing the role of the State with the interests of the free mark...
View: For decades, privatisation was a dirty word in India. Not anymoreIt took 21 years to state similar objectives on disinvestment. Immense political capital had to be spent by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee govern...
In defence of business: Why corporatisation of ordnance factory structure is not a bad ideaIndia is one of the biggest importers of defence equipment in the world, which suggests that the armed forces prefer buying from foreign su...
View: Things government can do to complement RBI's data storage ruleIf GoI deems personal payments data as not ‘critical’, RBI’s stand on full data localisation will be severely hit.
View: High time to prioritise non-tax revenue in the BudgetNon-tax revenues as a percentage of total revenues have been budgeted at around 23% this year, lower than the 26% and 25% in 2017 and 2016 ...
Nobody can get any extra information about you once you link your mobile to your UIDFor telecom companies, electronic KYC is cheaper and eliminates the risk that a rogue agent may cooperate in enrolling a subscriber with fa...