Yesterday, DoT (the department of telecommunication) issued guidelines for setting up private networks in India. Parallelly, the DoT made amendments to the existing license conditions to empower the telecom operators to lease their spectrum (acquired through auctions) to facilitate the deployment of private networks. However, the interested entity — wanting…

In order to tell this story, I will use various graphics which will describe the changing landscape in various dimensions — wireless, wireline, rural, urban, and the most important of all — “Active Subscribers”. In the end, we will be able to see how the various operators were poised against…

A few days back I did a detailed note on how the operators will bid for spectrum in the forthcoming auctions. With the NIA having out today, it has been observed that the spectrum in 800 MHz has increased significantly, thereby impacting the bidding strategy of the operators in this…

Most countries follow a policy of assigning spectrum for terrestrial services through a process of auction. In India, the practice is perpetuating since 2010 when the 3G & BWA (Now 4G) spectrum was put to auction, and the outcome was a huge success. But when it comes to satellite spectrum…

GDP growth rate is an important metric that interests all. The reason — the prosperity of the country and its international leverage depends on its GDP growth, which in turn decides the size of its economy. Of course, India is not an exception. All stakeholders especially the government have a…

In India, we are all excited. 5G is knocking on the doors. It will bring new opportunities and unlock new possibilities, some of which, I am sure will change our lives forever. But are we ready? If yes, that is great news. But if not, what are the bottlenecks? What…

The issue of the assignment of spectrum to the operators for backhauling access traffic has been a point of debate since 2014. The DOT's existing policy (dated 16th Oct 2015) is to assign this spectrum administratively and charge a % revenue share as license fees. However, DOT now intends to…

Recently the ministry of commerce released the data for the month of March 22 for the exports and imports of all commodities at the granularity of 8 digit HSCode. I aggregated this data for the FY21–22 for Electronics. This note is a snapshot of the export and import data in…

Do you know that the 5G auction price will not get reduced in the next round of auction even if the operators choose to skip these bands (600, 700 & 3500 MHz) in the current round? But why? The issue is the TRAI’s current “Pricing Models” which have been used…