Building a world class infrastructure is imeprative if India has to progress. Telecom is no exception.
In my earlier columns, I had expressed the same issue- BSNL is besotted with a huge legacy of outdated exchanges. Precisely for the same reason, the broadband spread has been thwarted. I fail to understand the reluctance to open up the last mile access, controlled by BSNL. They would instead get handsome revenues in the long term. The end consumers like me would benefit vastly from improved services and choices.
However, it is unfortuante that the policy makers have their heads buried in sand. It is not only telecom that suffers on that account- look at any other aspect of infrastructure; be it ports, electricity, airports et al. Once you have the damning left and an ineffectual prime minister, the nation has literally been thrown to the dogs. Of course, they would feed fat on the crumbs that fall their way. Democracy is a notional concept here; we as ordinary citizens have absolutely no say as to how the nation ought to be run.
The reasons are far too complex to understand the same- it’s out of scope here. Suffice to say here that we as ordinary citizens are condemned to suffer telephone breakdowns or power outages for hours and days. It is the private sector that was supposed to provide for “better services”. Yet, they seem to suffer from the same mentality complex.
In the recent Mumbai downpour, the entire city was stranded.Mumbai became inaccessible for couple of days with the loss of the banking transacations. It was State Bank of India that had it’s disaster recovery in Chennai- within two hours order was restored. In the private banks, chaos reigned supreme. If this is the state of affairs in the 21 st century, God save us!
Of course, I have sidetracked from the telecom- though just to prove a point that we are so inadequately prepapred. Good life would be a pipe dream for most of us.
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