[MoMoBangalore] Size of GPRS user base

[Ganges Morekonda]

I do not have much information to comment on the validity of this article or
their claim. However, in my opinion it will be a long way to go to achieve
this both in terms of technical and commercial.

Technical:
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1) Arguably, GPRS configuration is not easy
2) Screen size is small (considering only the mobile handsets not PDA and
other variants)
3) Speed is not that great compare to the Broadband
4) Coverage problem

Commercial
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1) GPRS awareness is very low. Still major mobile users are considered
mobile phone as a voice device. Only non-voice application popular among the
mobile user community is SMS. This is also due to the economical charges.
2) Indian market is very price sensitive and it is still considered as
expensive

Nevertheless, the market is picking up due to the introduction of new smart
phones in an economical price points and innovative applications, which
forcing the mobile users to get connected on the GPRS service not the other
way round.

In my opinion GPRS can not replace the traditional connectivity paradigm but
certainly it will complement the traditional system to stay people connected
anytime, anywhere, anyone.

Cheers,
ganges......

On 10/9/07, JC <jchippu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> just curious - how many of you on this list have GPRS activated on your
> mobiles and how many of those you have have it activated?
>
> This question came up when I hit upon this article
> http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Net_user_base_shrinks_as_Indians_go_mobile/articleshow/msid-2433752,curpg-1.cms
> that says "Net user base shrinks as Indians go mobile", and  "That means
> over a fifth of India's 200 million-plus mobile subscribers use their
> cellphones to log in to their favourite websites." -- I am wondering if this
> is indeed true!
>
> To answer the above question myself, I use GPRS but I know of no one in my
> friends circle who use it too. This makes me wonder how true this article
> is.
>
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