causes and effects of mobile phones on their rollercoaster ride
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Dialling up: Mobile telephony started with then West Bengal CM Jyoti Basu saying the first ‘hello’ to then Union communications minister Sukh Ram. Also seen in the picture is industrialist BK Modi (file photo)
1994: The government projects the market for mobile phones in New Delhi to be 30,000 subscribers. When Essar builds a network of 100,000 subscribers, everyone is taken aback. In Kolkata, Modi Telstra, which launched the first mobile network, was struggling to get 30 subscribers a day. With a charge of Rs 18 a minute for voice calls and Rs 40,000 for a phone, this luxury was only for the well-heeled.
2020: The government projects the New Delhi subscribers number 53 million, voice calls are free, and India is the largest user of data in the world. A 4G phone costs Rs 500, the cheapest perhaps anyway in the world. Mobile density soars from 4 per cent in 2001 to over 88 per cent today.
It is impossible to over-state the scale and impact pendence on regulatory or policy interventions has not changed. Nor has the impact of court orders on disputes. In 1996, it was clear that the two licensees each who were operating in the 23 circles did not have a viable financial business model to survive. The operators collectively spent a staggering Rs 27,000 crore as licence fee.
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