Letter to BS: Implementation holds the key to the new telecom policy

Public private partnerships (PPPs) are, of course, necessary to get in the additional 100 billion dollars of investment, but having said that, there must be clear ground rules to make PPPs a success

Apropos your lead editorial “Redialling reform” (May 18), the very title says it all: how critical it is to “drag the telecom sector out of its current swamp”, as you beautifully sum up the issue in the concluding paragraph. It just has to be done; period.

To say that “the draft National Digital Communications Policy lays out an ambitious vision” is an understatement. It sounds more like a dream; but then, to achieve big goals one has to dream big. The targets that have been set cover all domains within the sector and if we can translate these into reality by