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How to price a gigabyte of data is a dilemma confronting India’s mobile operators as they steadily build up their 3G subscriber bases.

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It is fair to say that over the past twenty years in my career as a banker, I have seen some transactions in the telecoms industry which have resulted in significant value erosion.

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Walk out of Mumbai International Airport and hundreds of local people will be glued to their mobile handsets, texting to friends and colleagues.

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Fifteen years ago there was no private telecoms industry in India. Today not only is there a vibrant domestic industry but many of the larger players such as Bharti, Reliance and Tata are now expanding outside India.

(Tony Worthington is Global Head for Telecoms, Media & Technology, Standard Chartered Bank. The views expressed in this column are his own and do not represent those of Reuters.)

By Tony Worthington

Many eyebrows, including those of this author, were raised at the culmination of India’s Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) auction earlier this year.