16 Dec
2006
16 Dec
'06
5:29 a.m.
On Friday 15 December 2006 23:43, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Well, the real problem still is the last mile. Till the government opens up the local loop to competition,
The last mile is open to all the oligarchs. They just want a free ride on sombody else's network. wimax might yet bring some hope to end users..
we will still see the same conditions prevailing everywhere in India despite all regulatory reforms :P The small players can't get in cuz of prohibitively high costs of building your own local loop
The experiment at HBCSE proved conclusively that capital costs are very low. Caveat upstream has to be cheap and profits would be near zero.
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