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Broadband in India: Operating Expenses

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 17th

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author As I discussed in the previous post, the drivers for penetration of broadband in India will be- * Decreasing cost per line * Decreasing operating expense * Decreasing cost of PC (or similar device) * Social attitudes and habits embracing broadband facilities * More Indian content In this post, I

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Broadband in India: Cost Per Line

Posted on Monday, Apr 16th

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author As I discussed in the previous post, the drivers for penetration of broadband in India will be- * Decreasing cost per line * Decreasing operating expense * Decreasing cost of PC (or similar device) * Social attitudes and habits embracing broadband facilities * More Indian content In this post, I

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State of Broadband in India

Posted on Thursday, Apr 12th

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author Take a look at current broadband penetration in India? It’s a mere 2.5 million subscribers (or less). That’s less than 0.25%. Most indicators of technology penetrations, such as telephone, PC, mobile, broadband, have a direct correlation with increase in the GDP and per capita of a nation. However, India’s broadband

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Mobile Revolution in India

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 11th

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author We have seen the Mobile Revolution in India. It is still happening. There are enough indicators to suggest that Mobile penetration will exceed 400 million subscribers in India in the next few years. Let’s pause and go back a few years, say 2001. Could any analyst predict that we would

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Bollywood Screenplays

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 10th

At the turn of the century, I came to the conclusion that film is one of the most powerful mediums to affect change. That’s when, I started taking some courses in (Hollywood-style) screenwriting. This year, Al Gore has proved how effective a well-crafted film can be in conveying a message to a very large number

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Iger’s Arrowheads Pointing Right

Posted on Monday, Apr 9th

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment company with a $70 Billion+ market cap and a stock that has been performing consistently well for amost 4 years. It operates in four major business segments – Studio Entertainment, Parks and Resorts, Consumer Products and Media Networks. The Studio Entertainment segment produces, acquires and distributes live-action,

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MicroFinance and Rural Development

Posted on Monday, Apr 9th

When I first started writing this blog, I wrote a series of pieces on MicroEntrepreneurship. Today, as the world is making giant leaps in embracing the entrepreneurship potential buried in the lowest rung of the poverty pyramid, I want to showcase a few of those pieces for your reading. Tier 4 Market Definition : I

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India’s Fuel Basket For Power

Posted on Friday, Apr 6th

By Satish Dey, Guest Author Starting from where I had off left in my last post, India is gearing to use a basket of fuels for meeting its burgeoning power needs. It aims at generating 65.6% (84,400 MW) Thermal, 26.6% (33,942 MW) Hydro, 3% (3,900 MW) Nuclear and 4.8% (6,191 MW) Renewable power by 2012.

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