Today, mobile phone connections are so accessible that it is easy to forget the time when only the elite had a telephone. provided by the only operator: the Government of India. It all changed in the early 1990s as liberalization stirred the Indian economy out of its decades of complacency.
Telecom Wars begins its narration from those times, traversing the uncertain early years of the mobile phone industry: It is a vivid portrait of the stiff competition as Tata, Birla, Reliance and Bharti bid to capture the lion's share of India's billion voices. As they did, India's institutions to regulate and manage the sector also evolved the ministry separated from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal and state-run operators MTNL and BSNL also got into the game. Policymakers, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats worked tirelessly to change India's cellular topography.
Fast-paced and expertly written, veteran financial journalist Deepali Gupta's account is both a comprehensive history and a work of great business insight.
DEEPALI GUPTA, former senior assistant editor at the Economic Times, has been a financial journalist for two decades, covering the economy and large corporate houses in India. Over the span of her career, she has worked with the Indian Express Group, Network 18, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.
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