Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters marched through Bangkok on Sunday to demand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's resignation and garner support for a planned "siege" of the capital to foil snap polls next month.
Tax demands and regulatory hassles, coupled with low internet density and sundry other problems, would have kept Mr Ma awfully busy - and small.
After a two year run-in with controversies, telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) received in 2013.
After building a subscriber base of nearly 50 million in about eight chequered years, it finally gave up as it saw itself up against a 600-pound gorilla that breezed through double that many subscribers in a fraction of that time, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
Trai calls both Jio and incumbents for a meeting to discuss the issue
Investors expect more investment-friendly policies opening up more sectors for foreign direct investment
'It is in electronics that the gap between where we are and where we need to be is most obvious and most persistent.' 'It is not only a national security issue, but also a commercial issue,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani has moved 2 ranks ahead this year on the most powerful list.
They can carry huge amounts of data, have a lot of bandwidth, but operate at short ranges, between 200 metres and 2-3 km reports Surajeet Das Gupta
A bigger problem is that there is no clear definition of "call drops".
The flood-ravaged city was on Saturday struggling to return to normalcy with partial restoration of telecommunication and train services.
A DoT panel has backed net neutrality and made some recommendations to push the cause
If Reliance Jio resets the rules of the game with low voice and data tariffs, most incumbents will find themselves back to square one.
India had its own battle over gauges.
A look at the life and times of maverick businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran
The chief of America's Federal Communications Commission is not a fan of net neutrality. So what's his vision of communications and digital policy in these times?
The Nobel follows a line of mighty brands that have bent low to kiss the feet of the popular, says Itu Chaudhuri.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
The man who led this journey is 50-year-old Kalanithi Maran, chairman and managing director of the Sun Group.
'Could the Khar police and the CBI have tinkered with the driver's call data records?' 'And did their fiddling with the information not make it that they were tampering with the lives of people that were in the balance as a result of this case?'
Once called India's garden city, this upper middle-class residential area in Bangalore has India's most toxic air, says Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.com.