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ISRO Plan To Launch Satellites To Facilitate Rural India – Is Immediacy More Important Or Brave Announcements?
Something from the outer space, International Space Station and Discovery shuttle will soon get back from space after they accomplish their new mission. And, this time they’re out there to collect a ton of space station junk, surplus gear and completed science experiment apparatus.
On the other side India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan I is still [...]
Feature And RTOS, The Phones India Will Still Need For Long
Smartphone sales growth was very impressive in last year and in the first quarter of 2009 too, while the total mobile phone sales dropped around 8.6% globally Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.6% increase from the same period last year, Gartner reports.
Now increasingly more number of ODM’s and OEM’s are eyeing the smartphone [...]
Over 100 Million Rural Mobile Subscribers In India – Opportunity For MVAS
Mobiles in recent days are not just a symbol of urbanization. Its also a necessity today in rural India. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there has been a rise of 18% in use of the mobiles by rural subscribers. Rising from 93.2 million users at the end of last year, India [...]
How Will Rural India Deal With Social Networking?
I happened to be reading a book on Rural India a few days back and an interesting point was raised by one of the authors with respect to a consumer dichotomy that exists between urban India and Rural India. One needs to keep in mind that consumers in rural India are extremely different with respect to [...]
Mobile Manufacturers in rural India
Mobile manufactures like Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung etc. have started to reach out to the Indian villagers trough Mandi’s, Haats (unregulated markets) etc as their on-ground activity to attract the villagers towards their handsets.
I think it’s about time they did so, considering 70% of the Indian population are from the rural areas. The rural market [...]