Posts

Showing posts from January, 2008

Spectrum dispute: My solution

I came across a great blog on the telecom dispute dealt with great clarity and depth. You can read the same on http://www.neerajgutgutia.blogspot.com/. It explained Neeraj's point of view over the spectrum tussle in great detail and clarity. Though i may lack his long experience, in my view, auction of available spectrum by TRAI will be a WRONG move. Let me explain how. Govt's prime motives are (in order of priority): 1. consumers benefit with quality of service at reasonable rates 2. increasing teledensity 3. making sure market remains competitive Assuming govt decides to auction all the available spectrum. Then we will not acheive any, though the cellcos will certainly be very happy and i will sell all to buy their shares. Lets see what happens to the above objectives in their order of happening: 3. all the spectrum is gone so new players cant enter and thus existing players got legal right to squeeze customers, shoddy service 2.No effort taken to increase no of cell sites by

Happy Birthday to you !!!

Image
Its a bit out of the usual boring stuff that i post but can't help it... HAPPY Birthday Menaka!!! Thanks for lighting up the dull and dreary evenings of legions of market followers.

Proud to be an Indian!!!

So much has already been said about the pros and cons of the Tata car: NANO that more in the same vein will be mere repetition. Hence am touching the untouched topics. We did it!!! First of all, the towering but aristocratic Ratan Tata is the perfect Indian answer to the doubting thomases of the world. Osamu Suzuki’s words that the 1 Lakh car is impossible to make will continue to mock him(Suzuki) and will soon be inducted into the unofficial Hall of shame quotes amongst other legendary faux pas of history. Remarkably, what was impossible for the Japs (who are making cars for almost a century) was made possible by a Indian team who has been making cars for a mere decade now. That’s the power of conviction and the power of the young India for you. Protests of Singur displaced: Secondly, the silent protest of the well-wishers of the displaced of Singur was a jarring note in the whole episode. I believe that for one, these well-wishers should be going hammer and tongs after the g