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We have already seen one of the three key telecom players, Vodafone-Idea, faltering with tremendous debt and the inability to roll out 5G. If we do not have a financially healthy telecom sector, it would be a threat to the growth of India itself.
Large corporate LTGs with multi-billion dollar turnovers, and with many of them being based outside of India, do not require any regulatory protection and should play by free and open market rules, in a manner similar to what TV channels used to do in the cable TV era.
Large corporate LTGs with multi-billion dollar turnovers, and with many of them being based outside of India, do not require any regulatory protection and should play by free and open market rules, in a manner similar to what TV channels used to do in the cable TV era.
Touted as one of the world’s largest telecom projects, India is planning to spend a whopping INR 1.39 lakh crores for the third phase of its ambitious BharatNet project to expand and enhance the country’s rural internet connectivity.
Just like the great author Kalidasa, before he attained wisdom, had cut the same branch on which he was sitting, we find that LTGs are cutting the telecom companies, over which they operate.
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