September 8, 2000
India's New Telecommunications Policy May Speed Growth of Distance Education
Students seeking online distance-education courses are expected to be among the main beneficiaries of a new and more liberal telecommunications policy announced last month by India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee.
Mr. Vajpayee said the government would take aggressive measures to privatize telecommunications, ending the monopoly of the state-run company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., or V.S.N.L. The company controls access to India's undersea fiber-optic connections, and has
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