VI — The Road Ahead
Recently the GOI decided to convert the VI’s interest payment obligations during the moratorium period into preferential equity. Doing so...
Dissecting Budget 2023 — The Department of Telecommunication
GOI recently announced Budget2023. This captures the receipts and expenditures of the government for FY23–24. The purpose of this note...
The Key Challenges of Bailing out VI
This note is a follow-up to my earlier writings on this topic. The first one is titled — “The Collateral...
Does VI deserve a bailout? If yes, why?
Normally, businesses routinely go bankrupt — driven mainly by wrong financial decisions or a host of uncontrolled factors such as...
The Collateral Damage of VI going out of business
In today’s world, the role of the telecom sector is indisputable. It lays the foundation for our world going towards...
Regulating OTT Communication Apps
We know that the Draft Telecom Bill 2022, has stirred a debate on reigning the OTT communication apps under the...
Decluttering the debate on Regulating the OTT communication apps
While I have written many articles on this issue, and on this one, I plan to be absolutely straight —...
OTT — Can it be licensed?
OTT vs Telecom In order to find an answer to this question we first need to understand how OTT works...
Satellite Spectrum — Auction or Not
In the past few months, I have written many articles on the satellite spectrum — how it is different from its...
Satellite Spectrum — Overcoming Valuation & Underutilization Challenges
Recently it was reported that the DoT has made reference to the TRAI for recommending the modalities for auctioning satellite...