Telcos need three more bold decisions

Users and service providers are swimming against the tide even after the abolition of retro tax

Undoing the retrospective tax amendment affecting Vodafone Group and Cairn Energy among others was an excellent move, and proves what the government can do. In this spirit, two more shackles must go for us to fully exploit telecom and digitisation:

a) Adjusted gross revenues (AGR) for telecom operators need to be defined rationally as licence-related revenues by policy and legislation.

b) Spectrum allocation and pricing need a complete revamp. Appropriate policy and legislation can enable spectrum use as a resource for the common good, paid for by a share of revenues for usage instead of auctions. This will make spectrum costs an