BHARTI: Populist Measures Bharti Telesonic's slashing of cell-to-cell STD rates by 26 January seems unrealistic and appears to be a pre-emptive IPO move.
Rural Telephony—Community Way Grameen Phone's success in Bangladesh shows how socio-economy route can boost penetration in villages, when regulation and technology fail.
PCOs—Tried and Tested The PCO model, a huge hit with franchisees already, is about to gather more storm in the days to come. Good return on investment and ease-of-use have been the plus points.
INTERCONNECT: Still Undecided In absence of a proper interconnect agreement the basic services deployment will be delayed.
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT: New Realities Management of the most important resource in communication cannot be governed by obsolete concepts and rules.
Temptation Marketing WAP offers a new sport that promises to be the impulse marketer’s delight. The rules are emerging for application providers in India. Should they play?
The Unique Preserve Great technologies are fine. Carriers are also fine. But who’ll make thesetechnologies exist together in a network?
Connecting for Convergence Existing service providers, with their extensive cable networks, are bestequipped to take convergence to the telephone subscriber.
