Centre for Internet & Society

Regrouping for Growth - Interest Rates - III

by Shyam Ponappa

Aside from muddling along, the choices are to try to grow and retain capital to staunch the gap temporarily, or to settle for low growth and capital flight.

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TRAI Consultation Paper on Spectrum

by Shyam Ponappa and A.B. Beliappa

Shyam Ponappa and A.B.Beliappa worked on this submission to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on their spectrum consultation paper. The submission was made on August 21, 2013.

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Breaking into the Closed Circle: Domestic High-Tech Manufacturing Needs Access To Markets

by Shyam Ponappa

The deferral of India's preferential market access (PMA) policy for locally manufactured high-tech products indicates some lack of clarity and/or confusion in the government.

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Building Up vs Tearing Down

by Shyam Ponappa

We have to find ways to deal with corruption without subverting our developmental aims.

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Law & Order through Traffic Systems

by Shyam Ponappa

A TV white space system for traffic management may induce us to observe discipline and law-abiding behaviour, writes Shyam Ponappa in an article published in the Business Standard on June 5, 2013.

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Configuring a 'Non-Toothless' Regulator (TRAI)

by Shyam Ponappa

A proposal to give the telecom regulator the right to impose penalties marks a sea change in the government's approach to regulation.

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Prioritizing Communications & Energy

by Shyam Ponappa

After curbing unproductive expenditure and imports, we must focus on developing communications and energy.

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Are India's Glory Days Over?

by Shyam Ponappa

Unless major structural changes are effected, India will miss an economic take-off for many years, writes Shyam Ponappa.

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Who Minds the Maxwell's Demon (Revisiting Communication Networks through the Lens of the Intermediary)

by Sharath Chandra Ram

A holistic reflection on information networks and it’s regulatory framework is possible only when the medium-specific boundary that has often separated the Internet and Telecom networks begins to dissolve, to objectively reveal points of contention in the communication network where the dynamics of network security and privacy are at large – namely, within the historic role of the intermediary at data/signal switching and routing nodes.

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The Supreme Court & Spectrum Management

by Shyam Ponappa

Only the Supreme Court can rectify spectrum management in line with other resources, but all stakeholders can contribute.

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