For whose benefit is telecom de-monopolisation?
The Indian government has blundered through several iterations of telecom policy. Finally, we seem to be getting somewhere, with proactive, customer-centric policy formulation. T H Chowdary chronicles the evolution of telecom policy in India and reminds the government and the telcos that their ultimate goal should be to make telecom and information services affordable for every Indian

INTERVIEWS

“There is an immense opportunity for DTH in the Indian market”
Jan Grondrup-Vivanco, Eutelsat’s regional director for the Middle East, Asia and Scandinavia, discusses the company’s operations in the satellite services market as well as the possible satellite services opportunities in the Indian market with Shipra Arora

“We need to reinvent security in the context of the Web”
Rainbow Technologies, which provides information security solutions for the Internet, e-commerce, mCommerce, software licensing and software distribution, has recently announced the setting up of a Professional Services Group in India. Shawn Abbot, president, e-Security Group, Rainbow Technologies, spoke to Gaurav Patra about the company’s plans and his perception of the Indian security market