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June 19 , 2013

Regulators and Telecom Operators Must Collaborate : Telecom regulators and the companies they regulate in emerging markets should speak often and meaningfully about the innovative uses to be made of new digital technologies before they are licensed. That statement would have been a heresy a few years ago, when standard procedure was to keep both sides at arm’s length. But times have changes, as well expressed by this new article from ForbesIndia.com
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