What has happened to TRAI? All of a sudden, it seems to have jumped from an IQ of deliquency to IQ of supranormal intelligence. There is a definite transformation of the dumb dodos into normal thinking human beings.

First salvo fired by TRAI was related to specturm allocation. It did not go well with the industry majors for obvious reasons. So far, there has been no true headcount of the number of subscribers for the operators tend to issue a huge number of fake connections; many people own multiple connections; there are a huge number of people who sparingly use their mobiles and so on and so forth.

TRAI has recently proposed that M&A in the same circle cannot be achieved if it exceeds 40% market cap. In layman’s terms it means that if the market share of the combined entities exceeds 40% then the two companies cannot be merged. This is ostensibly to avoid the monopolies; it is difficult to fight a monopoly than oligopolies. A bunch of crazed idiots is better than having a madman around.

I would expect the reaction from Ramachandran on expected lines. I am sure he is going to breathe fire from one of his orifices and all of them are going to lobby to Department of Telecom to override this clause.

Still, I write in this to say that there is definite change of pace. If only someone were reading this blog and change over the definition of Broadband to 2 mbps unlimited; it would really kick ass. Of course, we’d be greedy for more anyway.  

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