I could have used this oppurtunity to trash around the commies and the leftists of all hues who have taken over the centrestage in the governance and hence the biggest impediments in the path of reforms. Yet its not worth it. The word reforms is a misnomer. If we have a cartel of telecom operators- would that be called as “reforms”? Contrary to what messers Surjit Singh, Prakash and his muse Brinda Karat say on the national media, fact is that they are jaded and improbable idiots who have lost all relevance to the present.

Some commentators across the blogosphere were going ecstatic about the entry of Chinese in the telecom market. Fair enough. Little realising that entry of Chinese marks out the new role that they are carving for themselves in the global scheme of things. Geopolitical thinkers may differ from this currently- though they would agree on one thing. In politics, there are no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Commies have found a new ally in their fatherland- internal subversives who tom tom Mao’s ideologies.

It is convenient to forget the fact that China is working against Indian interests. For example, the recent floods in the Parechu river were probably China’s handiwork. India being a spineless country, refused to counter the Chinese on the issue. Bit obvious. When we have foreign rulers, our “national interests” don’t really matter.

How is this related to telecom? Give any one a chance to go for your jugular and that would kill a person instantly. Telecom is our jugular- none in the world elsewhere would open up the infrastructure to such an extent they way we have done. It definitely pains me to see utter assholes sitting up selling my country off bit by bit. Oh well, the brits ruled us for 300 years. Perhaps anything “foreign” is good for us?

Let me know.

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Reuben Abrahamhas written a dissertation on the mobile phones and the emerging markets.

I hope that he puts it up online. It should be interesting to see as to how this links up, specially in the core areas of increasing GDP and improving the productivity.

Apple Insider reports the imminent launch of Apple iTunes enabled mobile. I had earlier mentioned about the same as to how Apple wants to be a part of the convergence game.

It seems that Cingular would co brand with Apple and sell it’s phones. Win Win situation for both.

I really pity those commentators who wrote the “death knell” for the Mobile Virtual operator; this is going to be a reality sooner than later.

In any case, this is too premature to say that the same model can work for India too. We are bogged down by gross inefficiencies in the sector; mobile penetration would make sense only if people take to mobile phones in a big way. More than plain vanilla voice calls, data is going to be the driver for growth. In any case, there is a huge potential market that can be tapped.

Reason? US has more cell phones than landlines considering the fact that it was an early started there. Yet, it accelerates the growth of Broadband acceptance too.

India obviosuly needs to catch up on the same. The reason for this post is to explore a working model for this country. Co-branded cells would soon be a reality.

Wait and watch.