Past Saturday (9th Dec'06) was this year's second Barcamp in Delhi. Venue was Impetus Software building in Noida. Although, the space was a little less compared to Adobe. But, nevertheless it was pretty cozy and well-managed.
Unfortunately, I could attend only the first half of this unconferencing. All the topics were around web technologies, alteast the ones I attended. In all, it was a great experience, as all geeks gathered to share the podium. The energy level was great. Presentations are available thru slideshare at http://barcamp.org/BarCampDelhi-2
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
'm'-bridge My Country
Wow! it feels great to be part of this "ecosystem". I've been planning to start blogging for quite some time now, not that i didn't have a pc or time for it. Actually, it was the price tag attached with being on-line. Now, that broadband is becoming a lingo of commoners, I can certainly afford it. By-the-way @128kbps i'm still not in the elite category of broadband users,as, TRAI says anything above 256kbps is broadband in India. So, all you "firangees" update ur books for proper definition.
Pleasure of writing in the comfort of home reminds me of the time, not too long back, when I took British Library membership because it had free internet surfing for its members. Forget about surfing.......voice was a luxury. Alright!!! times have been consistently changing in telecom, specially in India. Did we get Chinese infection? Yeah....for good and the great news is that it has just started!!!
Remember those days of walkie-talkie sized mobiles and Rs. 20-30 outgoing MOU and half the price for incoming. Yeah and you wouldn't believe ....I saw few talking on that machine too!!!! Now, it takes Re 1 for call and they might start paying you for listening to them. What's causing this plunge in prices? Well, Rs 20 was annoyingly unreasonable, but, Re 1 !!!Pleasure of writing in the comfort of home reminds me of the time, not too long back, when I took British Library membership because it had free internet surfing for its members. Forget about surfing.......voice was a luxury. Alright!!! times have been consistently changing in telecom, specially in India. Did we get Chinese infection? Yeah....for good and the great news is that it has just started!!!
It would be interesting to find out where my money goes when I pay my phone bill? It is essentially rental+ call usage+sms+data+vas (wap,news et. al). Now, it would be even more interesting to findout how much of this money is going down to the operator(s). I'm specifically interested in finding out what essentially is bringing the prices to lower levels. Having said that!! Here are the essential components which make the major chunk of telcos(Not sure if there are more though).
1. IUC (Interconnect Usage Charges) - thats what telcos share for using each other's resources.
2. ADC (Access Deficit Charge) - thats what every telco pays BSNL for pushing NLD calls to them.
The recent cut down on ADC substantially reduced the prices of call usage. ARPU has declined considerably for operators. Don't get surprised if you hear that Indians are enjoying the lowest mobile telephoney tariffs in the world. At the same time don't get surprised to hear that India is having one of the most prohibitive regulatory costs (like spectrum usage charges, license fee, ADC, service tax etc). Thats that then......
So, when carrier (essentially voice) prices are touching the ground, where do we expect the market economy to shift? Is it going to be services, data, content ?Well it looks quite complex to me at the moment.......At least internet prices have come down!!! I'm happy surfing reasonably fast web at reduced prices.Now that broadband is making its foray into Indian market, I guess its going to see a tremendeous competetion. Soon, broadband will become a household, soon, their will be competetion for broadband based services like (video-on-demand, IP TV maybe etc). I hope that this "soon" is really soon.
Whats the motivation for telecom software companies in India. I know for sure that most of the software developed in India is exported,but, isn't India the fastest growing telecom market in the world? It would be rather interesting to find out what kind of telecom softwares are booming in India (mobile gaming, content publishing, unified messaging,prepaid, et.al)
At the end lets not forget that we are still tottering at 11 - 11.5 teledensity. TRAI's projected figure for 2007 is 22.5 , quite impressive isn't it. So, in all, future looks quite green for us consumers.
May be i'll start video-blogging then :-)
1. IUC (Interconnect Usage Charges) - thats what telcos share for using each other's resources.
2. ADC (Access Deficit Charge) - thats what every telco pays BSNL for pushing NLD calls to them.
The recent cut down on ADC substantially reduced the prices of call usage. ARPU has declined considerably for operators. Don't get surprised if you hear that Indians are enjoying the lowest mobile telephoney tariffs in the world. At the same time don't get surprised to hear that India is having one of the most prohibitive regulatory costs (like spectrum usage charges, license fee, ADC, service tax etc). Thats that then......
So, when carrier (essentially voice) prices are touching the ground, where do we expect the market economy to shift? Is it going to be services, data, content ?Well it looks quite complex to me at the moment.......At least internet prices have come down!!! I'm happy surfing reasonably fast web at reduced prices.Now that broadband is making its foray into Indian market, I guess its going to see a tremendeous competetion. Soon, broadband will become a household, soon, their will be competetion for broadband based services like (video-on-demand, IP TV maybe etc). I hope that this "soon" is really soon.
Whats the motivation for telecom software companies in India. I know for sure that most of the software developed in India is exported,but, isn't India the fastest growing telecom market in the world? It would be rather interesting to find out what kind of telecom softwares are booming in India (mobile gaming, content publishing, unified messaging,prepaid, et.al)
At the end lets not forget that we are still tottering at 11 - 11.5 teledensity. TRAI's projected figure for 2007 is 22.5 , quite impressive isn't it. So, in all, future looks quite green for us consumers.
May be i'll start video-blogging then :-)
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