The way Indian telecom companies are accusing each other in public shows how desperate they are to hide their own faults. If spectrum had been priced through auction, mobile telephony would have never become so cheap and it would be used by a handful of people who could afford it. A bunch of people could have even overpriced the auction, making it totally unavailable for anyone to use it. And spectrum would have remained unused just as it had been before the advent of mobile telephony. If technology could create value from airwaves, ministers and telecom companies can now focus on creating technologies to make gold from thin air.
Nilen Palicha, Mumbai
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