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Why Indian Telecom Is Where It Is Right Now
Airtel and Vodafone Idea find themselves in the same situation that BSNL did a decade and a half ago, writes Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
15 Nov 2019, 01:30 PM IST i

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Workers gather round an excavated ditch at a construction site in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Two years ago, I wrote a column on BloombergQuint, titled ‘25 Years On, Indian Mobile Telephony Finds Itself At A Crossroads’. The article started with the following words – “The telecom sector in particular, and the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in general, have in many ways transformed India, its economy, and people’s lives.”

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