Making the straightforward complicated Indian-style - reprise: A regular column on the information industries

摘要

A Rearview published in this journal in 2009 (Vol. 11 No. 4) under the same title (bar "reprise") explained the circumstances surrounding the restructuring of the Indian mobile market and the stumbling progress towards the issuing of 3G licences from the perspective of end-December 2008. At that time, the (several times postponed) auction rescheduled for January 2009 was about to be postponed yet again. This auction has now finally taken place in June 2010, and the past 18 months have witnessed sufficient changes in the circumstances of the Indian mobile sector that the story warrants an update.