Archive For February, 2009

Free or not to be Free

Content has gone thru the cycles of being freely available (on internet) to (sometimes insanely) priced (on today’s telecom networks). I love getting into arguments if this is about keeping it all free or keeping it paid at right value (read: right pricing but not zero). I loved reading this article in TIME magazine, How [...]

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Content – The King .. Queen .. and Everything Else

  With Number portability set to kick in August onwards I am sure that some Operators would not be able to sleep as comfortably as before . By a logical surmise, it would mean that all operators start focusing on customer delight with immediate effect. Consequently we shall see that all operators try to have [...]

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One97's business model and unique solutions

Off  late a lot has been written about how Mobile Value Added Services (VAS) or Mobile VAS is gaining a lot of momentum in the country. Yes, indeed it is a fast growing market and has a lot of potential, but it wouldn’t be misplaced to term it the tip of the iceberg… ” Telecom [...]

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Hunt for my neXt phone

I am using the Blackberry Flip these days and I moved to this from Blackberry bold and before that I used iPhone (first cut) for a while.  I now know that instead of polling-based-email I need a push-email device. Incidentally blackberry does it best and iPhone hack still does not get integrated to enterprise email (we use [...]

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