Airtel Broadband: Ineffective marketing?
Ever since it has introduced the new 512k unlimited plans (much to my delight), I was struck by the stupidity of the dimwits that Airtel has hired. Airtel has a fantastic infrastructure because it was...
View ArticleMobile phones to become costlier
Another watered down budget; Manmoron and his team of financial advisors are clearly at a loss for ideas. There is a crying need to reduce the indirect taxes on the products that is consumed by one and...
View ArticleMobiles: Not happening
The entry of retail chains in selling mobiles has not helped to lower the prices. No one is content to play the volumes game as yet. There is a huge untapped market.
View ArticleVodafone India: Fight against the suckers
They have not been able to provide me the connectivity I deserve. Their complaint resolution sucks. I have emailed them twice in the past 5 days without any reply from their headquarters. So far, they...
View ArticleThe new wave of networking
In this broadband era, networking in terms of personal space is increasing at a very rapid pace. Unless you consider the social network retard on Orkut or Facebook hoping to strike gold (there are...
View ArticleBroadband and Microblogging
I came across these two hilarious videos and produce here for your eyes only. I am becoming a twitter whore myself. Although, I must confess that this novelty does wear off after some time. This is a...
View ArticleIndian Mobile Industry: Ring in profits
They make obscene profits and the all the while claim that they pay the highest taxes in the world. If the market conditions were so difficult, who has forced them the stay out around here and sell...
View ArticleMobiles in India: Value added services
This is a link to Rajesh Jain’s blog; Emergic. I am glad that he has started blogging again, although he is doing to promote his venture called as Netcore. He used to post across links daily to various...
View ArticleSome late night thoughts
I have been travelling over the weekend back to my native place which was untouched by the glitz and glamour of the metros. This Diwali seems to be muted; partially because of the economic recession...
View ArticleVirgin Mobile India: Something “different”?
Virgin Mobile is going full throttle with it’s advertising blitz; I remember, there was some issue with it’s licence because it was a virtual network operator. Tata claims that it isn’t. The truth, as...
View Article3G India: Who needs it?
The following is the text of the email sent and an edited version appeared in Business Standard on 06/11/2009. Dear Sir, This refers to Shyam Ponnapa’s write up on BS dated 05/110/2009 (Managing...
View ArticleBritish Telecom: Misleading communication
This is important for us to know that the advertising watchdog in Britain works unlike the Advertising Standards Council of India which is toothless “regulator”. No one gives a fuck to the poor sods...
View ArticleTata Docomo 3G: Failed start?
I shifted to Docomo because of one reason alone. It had a clutter free experience as far as it’s GPRS was concerned. I needed to be connected because of some degree of convenience built in. My...
View ArticleAirtel: New Logo and stupidity
There are things that don’t cease to amaze me. Top of the mind recall is the massive “re-structuring” exercise to “re-brand” Airtel “logo”. It is rumored that the entire jing bang cost them nearly 300...
View Article2010 round up.
This perhaps generates more cynicism than anything else. Over the past few months, I have become increasingly bitter with the telecom landscape in India. We have “expounded myths” about “millions”...
View ArticleIndian Mobiles: Changing landscape
There is an interesting post on Read Write Web about the mobile predictions for 2011. Although it depends how much we are willing to extrapolate this “trend” to India. I don’t see the maturity of the...
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Nokia: Stupidity
has been taken from Endgadget; although these are only concept pictures. The most important aspect of the smart phone is the OS AND the APPS (which means a developer ecosystem). As of now, we don’t...
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Mobile Content: Where the f*** it is?
Image via Wikipedia I have explored various other aspects of mobile internet in recent times. It would not be worthwhile to cry myself hoarse about the pathetic mobile access in India (which I have...
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Opera Mini 6
The beauty of the mobile browser is that it is cross platform. I have covered this browser (for mobiles) in earlier write ups too but I think the most significant advance is the pinch to zoom that has...
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State of Mobile Web: Some numbers.
Opera Mini‘s reports on the state of mobile web are likely to be a true reflection of the mobile access and hence a surrogate marker of what’s popular at the given point in time. I am reproducing the...
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