Telecom beyond Aadhaar

Even as political parties take to cellphones to fight the next elections, the numbers are a reminder that the telecom growth story is over

Nivedita Mookerji 

Nivedita Mookerji

The noise over the shutdown of Aadhaar-linked KYC verification for new phone subscribers seems much ado about nothing.

Not because how much more or less a telecom company will need to spend on paper verification as compared to what is now being cited as a “painless online Aadhaar authentication”. There’s much talk around whether a telecom operator will have to dish out Rs50 per new subscriber or a fraction of that for paper verification, how large a distribution network one needs to access potential users, and if the physical process would be a drain on time and ...

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First Published: Thu, October 04 2018. 01:03 IST