Comments on: GPRS and m-blogging in India http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/ subtle threads between self, work & life. Mon, 14 May 2012 05:03:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Susheel http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16983 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:36:17 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16983 i am using gprs (EDGE) for the last two years for google maps, emails, weather, etc and its fast enough for the purpose but very slow for downloading softwares, etc purpose…there is no awareness for the internet connectivity and the rates should be cheaper also…

]]> By: anurag pathak http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16513 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:17:51 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16513 GooseBerry has made it possible to be connected with your Emails 24 X 7, without internet or GPRS connection. You can receive and reply to your emails using SMS. You can select which emails get to reach you on your phone. The Email content is compressed by upto 30% to ensure that you get only the important part of email on your phone. All that one needs is a mobile phone that supports SMS. It works across GSM and CDMA networks.

Typically people spend heavily on costly devices (20 – 30K) and data plans (800 – 1100 per month) to be able to stay in touch with their emails. WithGooseBerry you can acheive the same with as amount low as Rs 95 per month! A 40 person company can save around Rs 24 Lakh over a 2.5 years period by using GooseBerry instead of currently available options.
Gooseberry supports 37 email servers as of Jan 2009, including corporate emails, gmail, yahoo, ibibo etc. Every day support for more email servers is being added as users from various companies are requesting for the same.

Few Advantages of GooseBerry.in
The service runs on any mobile on the planet without needing to install anything.

You don’t need to have a special hardware i:e Blackberry or Mobile with GPRS/3G capability
Cost: The cost of this service is a fraction of the rental cost of Blackberry or data plan (GPRS) which you would have.
You can create filters so that you dont get unwanted emails on your device.

There are no extra charges on roaming as well (Saves quite a bit of money).

It takes minutes to start this service for you.

With every one going into cost saving mode, this might be the solution companies are looking for

]]> By: anurag pathak http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16512 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:17:12 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16512 GooseBerry has made it possible to be connected with your Emails 24 X 7, without internet or GPRS connection. You can receive and reply to your emails using SMS. You can select which emails get to reach you on your phone. The Email content is compressed by upto 30% to ensure that you get only the important part of email on your phone. All that one needs is a mobile phone that supports SMS. It works across GSM and CDMA networks.

Typically people spend heavily on costly devices (20 – 30K) and data plans (800 – 1100 per month) to be able to stay in touch with their emails. WithGooseBerry you can acheive the same with as amount low as Rs 95 per month! A 40 person company can save around Rs 24 Lakh over a 2.5 years period by using GooseBerry instead of currently available options.
Gooseberry supports 37 email servers as of Jan 2009, including corporate emails, gmail, yahoo, ibibo etc. Every day support for more email servers is being added as users from various companies are requesting for the same.

Few Advantages of GooseBerry.in
The service runs on any mobile on the planet without needing to install anything.

You don’t need to have a special hardware i:e Blackberry or Mobile with GPRS/3G capability
Cost: The cost of this service is a fraction of the rental cost of Blackberry or data plan (GPRS) which you would have.
You can create filters so that you dont get unwanted emails on your device.

There are no extra charges on roaming as well (Saves quite a bit of money).

It takes minutes to start this service for you.

With every one going into cost saving mode, this might be the solution companies are looking for!

]]> By: Moblog http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16168 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:51:50 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16168 Even we launched a free Mobile Blogging Platform MoBlog and we are dissapointed. Mobile blogging is so in thing elsewhere but not for Indian Bloggers.
Get your MoBlog at http://moblob.mobi

]]> By: Jack http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16167 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:49:27 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16167 More than free mbs and downloads – what is needed is strong applications which will drive data usage.

]]> By: SAGAR BHATIA http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16063 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:24:07 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16063 Hi,

We have applications which can solve all this purpose. Application called as KONEKT by MOBIKON technology, which works on GPRS.With this application you can book table in any restaurant , home delivery even you can ask for a painter,electrician….infact they are working on doctors appointment too. you just need to type KONEKT and send it to 56070, then you can install the application on to your handset.

]]> By: riya http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16005 Thu, 08 May 2008 06:51:49 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-16005 hi,
I am doing a research on integration of health care services n mobile application example-u can get appointment through sms or may be once u have feed the prescription on your handset u will be probed when u need to take the medicine etc).If u have any relevant information about the same plz share it.My email -riya.bvp@gmail.com

]]> By: bryanh http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-15944 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:44:30 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-15944 Slammy! I just found this through twitter, ironically.

Data adoption will come; whether it’s GPRS or otherwise. The article itself is a little laughable because industry people see m-blogging as “taking a picture and posting it for your friends.” Typical SMS-centric-thinking.

The power of m-blogging isn’t in my ability to POST out to my friends (since, according to forester, most people aren’t “creators”), but in my ability to subscribe (ie via rss or twitter) and monitor what people are doing.

I saw the power of this first hand at sxsw where i was “following” people (that I don’t know personally) on twitter, and they were talking about which bars they were at, interesting events/ talks happening. I suppose it’s the fact that the people i’m “communicating” with AREN’T my friends that makes m-blogging more interesting to me.

]]> By: Santosh http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-15943 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:23:19 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-15943 Hey Sameer,

I had no idea SMS was free initially. Great point!

- Santosh

]]> By: Sameer http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-15942 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:53:21 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-15942 well till the time operators dont let people exprince GPRS the situation will not change. giving free service for trail has worked well for operators in past remember how sms wee free iniatially and then we all got hokes on them and never left texting even when we started geting charged, the onus ies ere on the operators to facilitate and educate users on gprs and then st back and reap the rewards. what surpriss me is that there is no statistic which throws light on actual GPRS users in india, i guess even the trai statistics of 38 milion are overstated as they have included every user who has ever downloaded a ringtone or wallpaper from the operators walled garden wap site lik airtel live etc

]]> By: Arvind http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-11881 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:12:45 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-11881 Excellent blog Santosh,

I really like the information given here. I wanted to know the source for your information when you said “Industry Estimates”.

Is it based on some report – IDC, Garnter?

Thanks.

]]> By: Santosh http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3798 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:22:36 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3798 Conveniently blame it on ‘Last mile’ issues ;-)

Customer service is very important.

]]> By: Pranav http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3789 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:38:03 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3789 Santosh,

They do…But if you run into any issues, the support folks have no clue about debugging the profile settings and the likes..

for some reason, the profile settings they pushed to my phone wouldnt work.

]]> By: Santosh http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3784 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:47:44 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3784 @Pranav – don’t Hutch push out pre-configured GPRS settings for different phones like AirTel does? It is possible to do so using service messages, I think.

]]> By: Pranav http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3768 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:47:12 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3768 Not to mention two other factors:

1) GPRS is very,very slow. I dont have first hand experience. But this is what I gathered based on what my friends told me.

2) Getting the GPRS profile settings and stuff is a pain in the ass. I can attest to this since I tried to get GPRS activated on my dad’s cell phone. And the crazy ass Hutch support folks had no clue on doing it efficiently.

I guess m-blogging and other VAS related stuff needs to wait till 3G is in place.

]]> By: Mandar http://sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3592 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:26:42 +0000 http://blog.sukshma.net/2007/02/22/gprs-and-m-blogging-in-india/#comment-3592 Similar to earlier comment, the providers need to come up with pricing models that will allure end users to this world. How about giving out 30 mins of free surfing or X MB free data transfer with some medium sized billing plan? Users will use it first to see how is the experience and then just to utilize the facility that is included in their plan. I hate this kind of marketting but I feel it works at least to force people to try something new.

- Mandar

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