Comments on: Fueling the next Indian Revolution http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/ subtle threads between self, work & life. Mon, 14 May 2012 05:03:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Indian Internet Eco-System an Oddity « Sukshma http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-13422 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:31:06 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-13422 [...] 2007 · No Comments Back in 2006, a few VC’s left their Sand Hill Road offices and visited us to talk about what investments they would like to see happen. They cheekily talked about how they [...]

]]> By: Who needs 3G? Lets just go Wifi! « Sukshma, Santosh Dawara http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-3854 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:30:37 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-3854 [...] want to have to do anything that might disturb their revenues. I wish they would stop haggling and seed a long-delayed wireless data revolution in India. Sure voice revenues would start to whittle down – try focusing on areas where there is real [...]

]]> By: Who needs 3G? Lets just go Wifi! « Sukshma, Santosh Dawara http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-2251 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:55:42 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-2251 [...] At the end of the day, the Indian private wireless providers just don’t want to have to do anything that might disturb their revenues. I wish they would stop haggling and seed a long-delayed wireless data revolutio in India. [...]

]]> By: Santosh http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-510 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:27:00 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-510 Rishi, I don’t think the real issue is education :-) or the lack of it?

]]> By: Rishi Trivedi http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-509 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:19:12 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-509 Nice comments Santosh!. but frankly, i was a bit surprised that you guys are actually thinking of technological revolutions in india. trust me sitting right here in bangalore we seldom gave it a thought. i came to office today quite irritated with drivers with mobiles on. i believe we need to take a pause, and see if we can use the technology to revolutionize the education. somehow break that fascination with the degrees and focus on real education. To me that should be next revolution. Even if we lag behind during the process on the mobile and other technologies.. am sure u engineers are capable of following it up!

]]> By: Broadband Blog » Indian Telecom:Numbers and Links http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-508 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:08:58 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-508 [...] Santosh Dawra makes a pertinent observation that VoIP should be brought in to play an increasing role in the mobile revolution. [...]

]]> By: mar00ned http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-507 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:06:16 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-507 Read this a long time ago.

]]> By: Santosh http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-506 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:06:37 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-506 Aurum, your talking about the Grameen phone right? Could you provide some more insight?

]]> By: vonaurum http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-504 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:26:26 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-504 Its not just India but many other underdeveloped countries are benefitting from introduction of new technologies. Bangladesh particularly seems to have benefited from the cell phone boom.

]]> By: Santosh http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-503 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:19:45 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-503 mar00ned, Gaurav,

Correct me if I am wrong, mar00ned is suggesting that the carriers have already provided an affordable communication solution and now just need to propogate it so that everyone benefits.

I paraphrase again, Gaurav suggests that it is not possible to fully realize the benefits of what we have right now without adding further value or introducing other technologies.

We might be clearer if it could be shown (via anecdotal evidence perhaps) that adding additional value might actually achieve significant change for evey pocket (or person).

I am inclined towards a wireless data network (instead of voice) as a must-have. Being able to provide 2-way communication for everyone is a good enough goal – Rs. 1.99 per minute, nation-wide over VOIP. I wonder if that makes sense.

]]> By: Gaurav http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-502 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:54:44 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-502 Well, only to play devil’s advocate, I will point out that growth of mobile phone connections has been fueled by the low cost pre-paid options available in the Indian market. Such connections are used primarily to receive incoming calls. So the big question is that will this segment actually use the mobile platform for much more than receiving voice calls?

]]> By: mar00ned http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-501 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:30:22 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-501 I would be more interested in looking at the spread of technology in India rather than introduction of new ones. I think we do not have problems in adapting newer technologies, but there is a definite need to find out cheaper ways to make it penetrate to all the areas of Indian society and geography. I woulnt call it a revolution if it is confined to a few pockets.

]]> By: Spanish In India » Mobile revolution: some interesting links http://sukshma.net/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-499 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:50:00 +0000 http://sdawara.wordpress.com/2006/02/05/fueling-the-next-indian-revolution/#comment-499 [...] In an earlier post (link) I wrote some thoughts about the influence of technology in the mobile revolution in India. Santosh has left a couple of interesting comments, and has written a post on this topic that you can read here. I also recommend you read the post The case for “Made in India, for India” I think there are very good points in that post. If we are going to help in another “revolutions” I believe Santosh is right: it should be done in India for Indian needs. This will not only give a big, huge market, to companies; it will also make the changes that the country needs.   «« Previous post: Firefox usage | [...]

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