Realising India’s broadband dream

This article "Realising India’s broadband dream" that I co-authored with Dr V Sridhar appeared in the Financial express on 24th Sep 2013 under FE Reflect.

The article looks at India's current trend in Mobile Internet penetration.

Although the uptake of mobile internet usage is encouraging, India needs to push ahead with wire-line and wireless services with unbundling of the local loop, providing more spectrum to operators, refarming of the spectrum and look at adopting LTE+ technologies , maybe  MiFi for India to realise India's broadband dream.

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Status check : India's Mobile Internet

Finally TRAI( the Indian Telecom Regulator) has started publishing Mobile Internet data.
Found some interesting  stats. Indian states with low fixedline broadband connections have picked-up momentum on mobile internet.

 

 

India's mobile internet boom has begun, the smartphone users have increased over 50% in the last year, but the smartphone users as a percentage of total subscibers is about 6-7%

The current mobile internet usage is driven by paisafication of the data tarrif. But it is largely related to multimedia and entertainment. The next wave of internet-aware population could help in more meaningful use. We need to increase awareness of mobile internet and the true impact of the technology on the soceity can be realised only if we have localised content that can help in improving education level

 

A recent UN report states that over 9 million direct/indirect jobs have been created due to broadband.  India is ranked 122 and 106 on Fixed Broadband and Mobile broadband respectively.  

Five Key Considerations for Successful Project Management

I was invited by Suchitra to write a post on practical tips for project management on her popular "Five Key..." Happy In The Now Blog.

Here are the 5 practical considerations:

Consideration #1 - Forming the Right Team ( Never compromise )
Consideration #2 - Commitment to Customer ( Ontime delivery is sacrosanct!)
Consideration #3 - Dashboard driven ( aka Pilot cockpit panel!)
Consideration #4 - Never Surprise your stake-holders ( Never depend  solely on Email communication and never delay bad news)
Consideration #5 - “Thinking” Plan-B ( Always look for issues ahead of time and look for alternatives)

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