Blogs
TRAI-ing Times: The Story So Far
- March 19, 2015
24th December, 2014 marked a pivotal moment in the Indian experience with network neutrality. On this date, one of India’s largest telecom players, Bharti Airtel, announced the introduction of a new ‘VoIP’ usage policy for its mobile users.
Read more →A Road Map for Digital India
- December 28, 2014
India's current policies for telecommunications don't serve our interests. Here's what must change.
Read more →“OTTs Eating Into Our Revenue”: Telcos in India
- September 10, 2014
On August 5, 2014, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India organised a seminar on a regulatory framework for Over-The-Top services. This is a lay discussion of the Seminar and its focus on matters crucial to telecom, the Internet and the existing regulatory framework.
Read more →Transformation, or Drift?
- August 11, 2014
We need transformative policies and incentives with purpose, especially in solar power and digital infrastructure.
Read more →A Great Start (for the Modi government)
- July 04, 2014
The National Democratic Alliance government has made a terrific start. Time will tell how this plays out, but it has begun decisively and set a sure tone.
Read more →An Infrastructure Road Map
- June 02, 2014
What should and should not be done by a new government in this crucial sector.
Read more →Extractive Charges on Spectrum & Petroleum
- April 07, 2014
The author examines whether government levies on these critical inputs are beneficial or detrimental.
Read more →Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
- March 05, 2014
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
Read more →An Introduction to Spectrum Sharing
- February 24, 2014
We will look at how current technology – mainly GSM, but also CDMA and touching upon LTE - shares spectrum, how they might share spectrum, the trade-off between spectral (in this case, 'trunking') and 'economic' efficiency in the traditional, purely intra-operator shared scenario, and how it might be overcome by inter-operator sharing.
Read more →Centre- or State-Driven Development?
- February 12, 2014
Federalism requires a strong Centre as well as strong states, and effective organisation and coordination -- which can be facilitated by using the Internet.
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