‘The first phase of the telecom revolution is beginning to end. The second is about to begin’

India today is very different from what it was 20 years ago in many ways. To me, it is different because it is a country of a billion connected people as opposed to a country of a billion unconnected people 20 years ago. Through connectivity come many things like access, openness, transparency, networking, democratisation and decentralisation. We have to do things differently if we are to achieve this. That is where innovation comes in. I think the next big challenge is to look at this information revolution with a new set of parameters. Source