Workers gather round an excavated ditch at a construction site in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Two years ago, I wrote a column on BloombergQuint, titled ‘25 Years On, Indian Mobile Telephony Finds Itself At A Crossroads’. The article started with the following words – “The telecom sector in particular, and the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in general, have in many ways transformed India, its economy, and people’s lives.”