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Telecommunications in India

2008-11-24

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In 1975, India’s Department of Telecom was separated from P&T. Until 1985, DoT had all telecommunication services in the country under its management. It ceased to be when Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited was taken out of DoT’s wing. MTNL in turn administered the telecommunication services of Delhi and Mumbai.

The telecommunications sector entered into a massive liberalization and privatization program starting the 1990s. This necessitated the separation of the government’s policy making roles with that of its operational functions. The Government of India corporatised the operations wing of DoT on October 01, 2000 and named it as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. Many private operators entered the high potential Indian telecommunications market. Among them are big names such as Reliance India Mobile, Tata Telecom, Vodafone, BPL, Bharti, and Idea, among others.

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