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Definitely not.

For one, India's tech growth (even if it is in outsourcing) has been because it escaped the then watchers. They are more likely to build rules which help close partners to the government, or people who spend the time to help the government formulate their plans (Like facebook is).

Secondly, even in America, the one thing which is pushing adoption of better speeds in cities is the availability of a competitor like Google Fibre.

India had a lot more competition, but the recent Supreme Court judgement cancelled a lot of licenses which were given out, and many players were forced to requote for licenses in their circles.

As you can imagine, many smaller players were completely cut out, and today most of the market share for mobile telephony is distributed between 4 players.

Iteration can mean iteration of incrementally more regulatory capture each time.




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