Technology

The results of reform have been encouraging. The Indian market for equipment and services is expected to jump to $24.3 billion by 2006, up from $13.7 billion in 2001, according to telecom research firm Frost & Sullivan. The offshoring movement has created demand for networking equipment. Those facilities need the fast, secure phone and Internet […]

Unsurprisingly, it took decades after India achieved independence from the British in 1947 for the country to gain its political and economic footing. Early leaders ran a closed society and enacted tight government restrictions on the ownership of foreign investments — an understandable impulse given the country’s history. But the current telecom boom has its

Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi. Not long ago, these Indian cities were little more than echoes from geography class, dots on a map marking the edge of an empire upon which the sun finally set. More recently, they’ve been associated with (for better or worse) offshoring, as multinational corporations build call centers, factories and software development