New Delhi, June 18 -- Sanity appears to be returning to India's telecom sector. After years of hyper competition and court litigation, companies as well as the authorities are looking to get their act together. As service providers get down to deleveraging their balance sheets-Bharti Airtel intends to take its Africa subsidiary public and Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to sell new shares of its tower company to an investor-the department of telecommunications (DoT), too, has begun to take an accommodative approach. The DoT first asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to lower the base prices of various spectrum bands coming up for auction. Then it advised the latter to reconsider the penalties it had recommended against Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea for denying interconnectivity to new entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm in 2016. The fines amounted to Rs.3,050 crore. While wrongdoing cannot go unpunished, the DoT's twin suggestions to Trai reflect the tough times this sector is going through....