In short, entrepreneurs like Murthy, Nilekani, Premji, Nadar and others have successfully combined low-cost Indian skills with increasingly cheaper computers and communications to address a market eager to contain costs.

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The Ruia brothers, insisting they had the first right to buy Hutchison Telecom's stake--a claim it disputes--were pitted against much better known foes, Vodafone and Reliance Communications, which is controlled by Indian billionaire Anil Ambani.

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