Sukhram has been the most influential union telecom minister of
recent times. Not only did he take the important decision of opening telecom
services to private participation, he also tried opening local services first,
going against the international norm of opening long-distance first. The master
negotiator often personally negotiated with technology suppliers to DoT's
services arm (now BSNL) to bring down prices of equipment and helped achieve
savings of crores of rupees for the government. He believed that indigenous
manufacturers could effectively help the growth of Indian telecom.
Though many people associate him with the telecom scams of 1996,
and blame him for trying to start licensing without first creating a regulator,
his achievements surpass the negative.
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