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Well, it can be said that lowering of tariffs is going to benefit the consumer, but I would argue that providing cheaper call rates to the rural population was far more important. An important question to ponder over is, do we really need still lower tariffs. They are already at an all-time low, and the lowest in the world. BSNL was doing a good job of providing telecom access to the rural population. Talking of “inclusive growth” it’s important that these people have access to affordable telecom and computing solution. I actually don’t mind paying Rs.0.50 per minute extra, if that money is utilized to help a poor woman talk to her husband working in the adjacent village.

The speed to technology deployment is picking up day by day. Not long ago, we were hypothesizing about the possibility of Mobile TV implementation in India. And today, the news came that MTNL has launched Mobile TV in Delhi already.
 
The launch will see the subscribers viewing seven channels on their GPRS enabled handsets. The handsets [...]

iPhone is yet to come in India. But when it does, sometime in 2008, it will have to make drastic changes in its selling strategy. Worldwide, Apple has adopted the strategy of tying up the handset with one of the operator and sell it through that operator only. Indian law forbids such an arrangement. Here, [...]