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Dial ‘T’ for Truce !

Dial ‘T’ for Truce ! By Professor Surya Mahadevan, T. A. Pai Management Institute Telecom sector has thrived and grown in the face of acute competition, whimsical policy, resource crunch and dodgy business models. The sector has witnessed the inglorious exit of many service providers who lost a lot of [...]

By |January 13th, 2022|Others|0 Comments

Vodafone- Idea—A new lease of life?

  Vodafone- Idea—A new lease of life? By Professor Surya Mahadevan, T. A. Pai Management Institute Vodafone-Idea (VI) number 2 and 3 in the telecom sector merged in 2017 to become the market leader with 41% revenue market share. In the following 4 years, in the most inexplicable manner, the [...]

By |December 21st, 2021|Others|0 Comments

An Idea Whose Time Never Came!

An Idea Whose Time Never Came! By Professor Surya Mahadevan, T. A. Pai Management Institute Time is running out fast for the embattled Vodafone-Idea combine, the entity which came into existence amid much fanfare only three years ago. Unfortunately, the debt-laden venture never came out of the shadow of [...]

By |October 1st, 2021|Others|0 Comments

Airtel Digital Restructuring: What does it portend

Airtel Digital Restructuring: What does it portend By Professor Surya Mahadevan, T. A. Pai Management Institute Bharti Airtel, has announced a new organizational structure to enhance its focus on the digital business. Airtel's New Corporate Structure Airtel Digital Airtel Digital Limited is subsumed in the listed entity, Bharti Airtel. This [...]

By |May 17th, 2021|Others|0 Comments

5G- A new opportunity to get the sector back on track

5G- A new opportunity to get the sector back on track By Professor Surya Mahadevan, T. A. Pai Management Institute Retrospect Telecom sector has lurched from one crisis to another, aided and abetted by inappropriate and inconsistent policies by the government, inept operators with vacuous business models, grandiose judiciary that [...]

By |March 17th, 2021|Others|0 Comments

Rescue and rehabilitation of cormorants after felling of trees at Tiger Circle, Manipal

Rescue and rehabilitation of cormorants after felling of trees at Tiger Circle, Manipal By Dr. Vidya Pratap, Assoc. Professor, T. A. Pai Management Institute Background: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, in its notification dated 10th February 2014 announced a new national highway no. 169A near Thirthahalli, connecting Agumbe, [...]

By |January 14th, 2020|Others|0 Comments

The End Game in Telecom

The End Game in Telecom Telecom sector has a penchant for the spectacular. Telecom has witnessed an amazing run in the last 15 years when tele-density has increased 15-fold from a mere 6% to 88%. It has witnessed squashing of 120+ licenses by the Supreme court and inglorious exit [...]

By |December 12th, 2019|Others|0 Comments

Virtuosity of Net Neutrality

Virtuosity of Net Neutrality TRAI latest regulation against differential internet access pricing is based on questionable reasoning. It seems to assert and attribute absolute virtue in Net neutrality and does not get into the core issue of who (or what) is sought to be protected and why. TRAI [...]

By |August 27th, 2018|Others|0 Comments