The government must take a relook at spectrum auction formats, unrealistic pricing, and regulatory norms
India’s latest auction of telecommunications spectrum is a qualified success from the Centre’s perspective, mainly because the winning bids cumulatively exceeded the government’s own low expectations for receipts from the sale of airwaves. A total of 855.6 megahertz was successfully bid for out of the 2,308.8 MHz that was on offer as the three largest telecom services providers sought to optimise their purchases of radio spectrum by seeking to acquire only what they deemed essential airwaves, either as renewal or for strengthening their network, while entirely avoiding costlier bandwidth offerings. The newest entrant to the industry, Reliance Jio, was also the most acquisitive, as the Reliance Industries unit accounted for close to 60% of the spectrum bought at 488.35 MHz and contributed almost three-fourths of the ₹77,815 crore that the Department of Telecommunicati
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Pitney Bowes Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results The fourth quarter was a remarkable ending to an extraordinary year,â said Marc B. Lautenbach, President and CEO, Pitney Bowes. âRevenue growth was the highest modern day, organic growth rate on-record for us.
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Pitney Bowes Inc., a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing and financial services, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2020. The fourth quarter was a remarkable ending to an extraordinary year,â said Marc B. Lautenbach, President and CEO, Pitney Bowes. âRevenue growth was the highest modern day, organic growth rate on-record for us.
Digital transformation: which government projects will survive Covid?
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The work of government has been upended in 2020 by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, as departments moved swiftly to respond to a health emergency – shifting almost the entire work of government to home working nearly overnight, building new hospitals in days, and developing whole new services in weeks.
In delivering these projects, government has had to become more agile in how it works, and take a streamlined approach to digitisation and transformation across a host of Covid-critical services.
This has also meant that work on a host of pre-existing transformation projects was paused or slowed, but now, as the government begins to look to a situation where the pandemic may finally be put under control, it is time to consider which of these schemes should make a comeback, and how the lessons of the last year apply to them.