Admist champagne and gloss, the numbers have been declared.India has “officially” 100 million subscribers.
It would be irritating to the regulars if I refute with the same reasons that numbers per se have no meaning. This only means 10% of the teledensity in urban areas and roughly 2% in the rural areas in the best case scenario. Your guess is as good as mine.
This has been brought in mostly by the private players who have been squabbling over the spectrum issues. The recent spate of interviews and “paid for experts” have been stressing the need for 3G as if it as a magic bullet guranteed to cure their accumulated piles, borne out of years of abuse of “backdoor entry”. Pardon the pun but then this is the “reality”.
Bharti Mittal was giving an interview to two pissed assholes about the need for the spectrum allocation. They have a penchant to speak from “platforms”; much like the India Today Conclave with beautiful people networking with whoever thinks he/she is who’s who. In the media management that follows, lies and more lies are repeated ad nauseaum to give it a “tinge of truth”. Much like the highly paid lobbyists, they band together in the name of “industry associations” and with the entry of powerful interests (paid for muscle power and clout), they seek to hijack the economic policies in their own favour.
Hence, 100 million is a BIG circumspect.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the indsutry’s propped up “blogs” start singing the same tune of the financial dailies about the “growth in numbers” and “unprecedented boom” with smiling CEO’s giving high fives.
We have to live with this reality as they pull over wool over our eyes.
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