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Nov 04, 2004 1:43 am		re: The Indian Wireless Future
Bhavnik Singh		hi viren i m a student of symbiosis institute of telecom management ... well i have a different prospective regarding technology as a mojor driver in the indian telecommunication industry ...... as we all know that indian market is a hetrogenous kind of market where taste & style of living changes after every 100 kms ...... secondly indian consumers are very much cost sensitive......it is based on the fact that per capita income as well as telecom spending of individual in india is very less as compare to other countries .....the fact can be well supported by the example of relaince infocom bringing the scheme of 500 mobile, which resulted in the radical rise in teledensity in last 2 years... at present the war between mobile operator is not related to superiority of technology but with value for money ecah is passing to end customers.... so if the critical analysis of business proposition of any tecnology is made then we'll find that technology superiority is only a small driving factor for its success .... no doubt wimax is the next technology which we would see but major hurdles in its implimentation are..... absence of globally recognised standard .. scarcity of end user equipment at affordable prices ... bandwidth regulation 'may be a hurdle'... optimal demand of services provided by wimax... local content as u have also mentioned ... identification of end users for the tecnology ... & may be some more.... so at the end i'll say the along with the technology which generally comes under supplyside of particular market can't drive the market alone ..the operators have to take serious considerations of demand side of technologies & then impliment , & have full advantages with regards bhavnik > Viren Popli wrote: > Living in India I believe that the technology to watch for will be WiMax (if it lives up to what it promises to be). > >The ability to deliver Triple Play (TVoIP, VoIP and Internet Surfing) to large swathes of Indian households without digging up roads and laying expensive fibre will open immense opportunity and challenge existing business models (Cable Operators, Broadband providers, DTH and Mobile Operators). > >As regards availability of quality content which, I too believe, will be the single, most important driver of any new technology this is still some time away as the Mobile companies view content providers as "less than equals" and key decisions on content are driven not by quality, suitability or saleability but more by revenue share. > >Broadcasters on the other hand are past masters at dealing with pipe owners (read Cable Operators) and will continue to stay out of the market till The Cellphone operators dont offer better deals and show a willingness to work closely with the Broadcasters and content owners. > >Its a catch 22 which the consumer and industry watchers can only look at and hope for an early resolution. > >Hopefully > >Viren Private Reply to Bhavnik Singh (new win)

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