“…We have classified the literature related to Indian telecom into six broad classes, such as (i) role of Telecom Regulatory (Prasad et.al., 2009 , Srivastava & Sinha, 2001 , Sridhar & Prasad, 2011 , Dokeniya, 1999 , Jain, 2006 ), (ii) Impact of Telecom policy on growth of mobile telephony (Athreya ( 1996 )), (iii) Diffusion of mobile phones vis-à-vis fixed lines (Gupta, and Jain, 2012 , K. Singh, 2008 , Sridhar, ( 2010 ), Biancini, 2011 ), (iv) Factors impacting the adoption of mobile telephony in rural areas (Gupta and Jain, 2014 , Gupta & Jain, 2014 ), (v) Modeling the demand of mobile and fixed lines (Narayana, 2009 , 2010, 2011 ) and Pricing of services for mobile telephony (Das & Srinivasan, 1999 ), (vi) recent studies like re-segmentation of the mobile circles, forecasting the growth of 3G, 4G and mobile broadband in India (A Jha et al ( 2019 ), A Jha et al ( 2020 ), A Jha et al ( 2021 )). Table 2 lists the papers from 1999 to 2021, along with the focus area and the research issues studied.…”