It was around early 90's when telephone was considered to be a status symbol . Telephone was mainly available in factories or offices , for "common people" , one has to go to STD/ISD booth and wait in a queue to call . India , has seen a cyclonic rise in telecom industry in past two decades. From landline phones to Mobile phone, 2G- 3G, SMS-MMS, technology has bought a revolutionary change in this sector. Since advent of mobiles Shahrukh Khan was busy "Expressing Yourself" , Abhishek Bachan propagating idea of "An Idea can change your life" and many other promoting telecom industry .Now phones are not merely for exchange of voice rather has turned to a gadget which has touched other sphere of technology like internet, data transfer, 3G and many more. Nokia , Motorola, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, everyone is trying every bit to keep pace with changing technology , but some insolent people hardly respect nation, technology and change.
“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
Can pragmatic people lead us to this giant ongoing telecom revolution?? Talking about 2G spectrum scam , was Raja so innocent that he was unaware of the change and transformation between 2001 and 2010. He ignored advice of TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), Law Ministry, Finance Ministry . Does Mr. Raja thinks himself as one man self sufficient to judge the faith of telecom industry? When will Mr. Prime-Minister stop being a docile to Sonia Gandhi , was he unaware of the fact or their was one more scam within to run coalition government efficiently. As per CAG: Spectrum scam has cost the government Rs. 1.76 lakh crore , money enough to fed more than 50% people below poverty line for coming 50 years. Unitech group bought licence at cheap price and sold to norwegian giant Telenor its 60% stake which profitted unitech a price thrice the amount he paid for whole licence. Companies like Tata, videocon (planning to launch itself into teleom industry), S tel, reliance and many more not related to telecom industries were involved in 2G Spectrum. Even media maniac like barkha dutt was responsible lobbing for Raja .
In recent time, we have seen many act of Embezzlement from Harshad mehta , Laloo prasad, Madhu koda . But this was all together a different scam involving all set of people from Industrialist, Potiticians , Media Person and foreign investors . Common mass is enjoying transformation of there "tring tring" to fancy caller tune , at stake of nation's revenues but who to blame, is yet to be decided!
