37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
After a painful scandal that paralysed India’s parliament for years, involved the Supreme Court and catapaulted a new prime minister into power, the spectrum saga reached a Bollywood-style happy ending last week when the NDA government announced it would net Rs 110,000 crore from the auction of airwaves.
While communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says the impact of the higher prices that telecom operators will pay would mean only a marginal rise in tariffs for consumers, credit rating agency Fitch thinks the spectrum cost “will exert pressure on telcos’ balance sheets and cash flow, and limit their ability to invest in capex over the medium term” — In other words, expansion will be curbed by spectrum charges.
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