Comments on: Over 100 Million Rural Mobile Subscribers In India – Opportunity For MVAS http://www.watblog.com/2009/07/15/over-100-million-rural-mobile-subscribers-in-india-opportunity-for-mvas/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sriram Vadlamani http://www.watblog.com/2009/07/15/over-100-million-rural-mobile-subscribers-in-india-opportunity-for-mvas/comment-page-1/#comment-19040 Sriram Vadlamani Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:15:00 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=10556#comment-19040 India can skip the Internet on a computer and use the internet on a mobile. With 415 mobile users and less than 40 million Internet users and only 6.2 million broadband connections that looks like a logical thing to do. 3G & WiMax will help the cause. But going on a pure wireless play without the backbone of broadband would not work. Sure, in the context of Rural VAS - wireless works. As more and more people use Internet the need for different content including video increases. This puts a pressure directly on the bandwidth of which there is only so much on wireless. That's the reason why one should not neglect the broadband and invest heavily in fiber optics and next generation networks. Read more : http://trak.in/tags/business/2009/07/15/india-can-have-500-million-internet-users-by-2012-is-that-a-pipe-dream/ India can skip the Internet on a computer and use the internet on a mobile. With 415 mobile users and less than 40 million Internet users and only 6.2 million broadband connections that looks like a logical thing to do.

3G & WiMax will help the cause. But going on a pure wireless play without the backbone of broadband would not work. Sure, in the context of Rural VAS – wireless works.

As more and more people use Internet the need for different content including video increases. This puts a pressure directly on the bandwidth of which there is only so much on wireless.

That’s the reason why one should not neglect the broadband and invest heavily in fiber optics and next generation networks.

Read more : http://trak.in/tags/business/2009/07/15/india-can-have-500-million-internet-users-by-2012-is-that-a-pipe-dream/

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