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cjal-3176	Swaminathan, Rajesh	Functioning Anarchy: India’s National Telecommunications Policy and the Development of Basic Telephone Services	1997	42	.pdf	application/pdf	16734	744	47	42 Chief among these regulations was a competitive bidding procedure, which stipulated that private service providers, in conjunction with their foreign partners, could enter the sector by submitting competitive bids to install and run basic service networks in one or more of the twenty telecommunications Circles into which the DOT divided the country. For the purposes of this paper, I adhere to the Indian government's tacit definition of basic services as (typically wireline-based) voice telephony, but without subscribing to it.	cache/cjal-3176.pdf	txt/cjal-3176.txt