Indian Spectrum Auctions — Unraveling the Key Distortions
Exploring how distorted spectrum auctions have reshaped India's telecom landscape, raising costs and stifling competition.
Tag: Telecom Policy
How to Improve the Quality of 5G Services in India
India started the 5G services with a lot of enthusiasm, hope, and expectation. The path toward the launch was not ...
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 ...
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 ...
5G Auction — Possible Bidding Based On Submitted EMD
In past, I had written about the operators bidding strategy based on information available at that point in time. Today, DoT has ...
Indian Spectrum Auction — Operator’s Bidding Strategy (Revised Version)
A few days back I did a detailed note on how the operators will bid for spectrum in the forthcoming auctions. With the ...
5G is so close but yet so far away, why?
In India, we are all excited. 5G is knocking on the doors. It will bring new opportunities and unlock new ...
5G Needs Backhaul Spectrum — Are we ready?
The issue of the assignment of spectrum to the operators for backhauling access traffic has been a point of debate ...
5G Spectrum Price will not go down even in the next auction, unless…
Do you know that the 5G auction price will not get reduced in the next round of auction even if the operators ...