Apar Gupta
The DoT has asked new telecom service provider S Tel to stop services in three circles on grounds of national security. Observers do not rule out the possibility of scores being settled as the company has embarrassed telecom minister A Raja in the alleged spectrum controversy, which is being investigated by the CBI. Read More [...]
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the age of Facebook
In this blog post I am borrowing more than just the title from Niel Postman’s seminal work on media studies. I am also borrowing the metaphors which were utilized by him, originally spawned by my personal heroes, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. I quote the thesis of Postman’s work which has been succinctly stated at [...]
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web will be opening an office in India. Contemporaneously with the launch of the office a two day conference will also be organised to spur India’s participation in the development of standards. It is also reported that W3C will work in [...]
Another body has jumped into the 3G spectrum pit. The CVC has called upon the DoT to ensure a level playing field in the 3G spectrum auctions to be held on 9th April, 2010. read more on this here
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The Fading Norm
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It would seem natural and obvious to a user of social media that technology is changing the norm of privacy. Here the change is not limited to technology itself but the sociological response to it, as I sense we become more agreeable to share personally identifiable information. This change may [...]
Job Opening at PRS Legislative
“PRS Legislative Research www.prsindia.org is seeking applications for the position of Research Assistant (RA), a support-level role in the PRS team. The RA will be required to undertake tasks related to basic research and data collation. This is a support role, but will give the candidate an excellent opportunity to understand various facets of policy making in India. The candidate [...]
Public consultation, the right way
The Bt-brinjal consultation process has been unprecedented in several respects. Often we find politician’s referring to the metaphorical device of a “public debate” without following up on it. However, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr. Jairam Ramesh followed through on his promises. What we saw were 7 public consultations, in which 8000 people participated. Views of expert scientists, farmers, chief ministers, non-governmental organisations were also solicited and considered.
The privacy debate is raging online with the recent statements by Mark Zuckerberg that Online Privacy is a fading norm. the onset of cloud computing presents another challenge to online privacy. Columbia Law Prof. Eben Moglen at a recent talk given at the Internet Society of New York, lucidly explains the threats posed to privacy [...]
Telecom Tiger Correspondent reports that the Supreme Court (SC) has passed an interim order exempting telecom operators to pay licence fees taking into account revenues from non-telecom services as well. The order is pending a final decision by the court. The background to this is a petition which was filed in 2003 by two telecom [...]
No Longer A Moot Problem: The extent of CCI’s jurisdiction
A few months ago, with the ink still not dry on the notification enforcing the Competition Act, 2002, I drafted a moot court problem for the students of my alma matter on it. The problem essentially concerned the jurisdictional hurdles which the Competition Commission of India will have to pass.
