📉 Vodafone Idea’s Crisis: Why Chidambaram’s Foreign Takeover Pitch is a Mirage
🗣️ The Proposal That Sounds Easy… But Isn’t On June 25, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram reacted to Telecom Minister ...
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India’s 5G Ambitions vs Ground Realities: A Critical Look at the Ericsson Mobility Report (June 2025)
Ericsson’s Optimistic Forecast for India Ericsson's June 2025 Mobility Report paints a highly optimistic picture of global 5G expansion, with ...
Vodafone Idea’s AGR Dues: Why Simple Interest Alone Won’t Deliver Meaningful Relief
Introduction: The Dues and the Dilemma As of March 31, 2025, Vodafone Idea (Vi) owes ₹83,500 crore to the Government ...
AGR Crisis Explained: What Went Wrong, What Remains, and What Can Still Be Done
Among the many regulatory and legal battles that have shaped India's telecom sector, none has been as far-reaching and destructive ...
Vodafone Idea’s Survival: A Tightrope Walk Between Debt, Growth, and Government Backing
Yesterday, I wrote an article titled "SUC Waiver: A Boost for Vi, But a Blow to High-Frequency Spectrum Auctions," discussing ...
SUC Waiver: A Boost for Vi, But a Blow to High-Frequency Spectrum Auctions
On March 6th, the Financial Express (FE) reported that the Government of India (GOI) is considering a spectrum usage charge ...
Vodafone Idea’s Debt Crisis: Can GOI’s Band-Aid Fix Prevent a Telecom Collapse?
The moratorium period for the payment of dues on Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) and spectrum auctions held before FY21 is ...
India’s 5G Reality Check: TRAI Finds Operators Stuck on 4G, BSNL Largely on 3G/2G
Yesterday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a comprehensive Independent Drive Test (IDT) report for four cities—New Delhi ...
The Cost of Connectivity: Assessing the Impact of Mobile Tariff Hikes on Indian Households
Yesterday, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) for the data collected during ...
TRAI’s Mandate on Voice-Only Plans: Challenges and Implications for Telecom Operators
Introduction On December 23, 2024, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued the 12th Amendment to the Telecom Consumer ...