Archive for the ‘India’ Category

Social networks to change the Indian polity

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 27, 2010 – 1:05 pm

Public figures including politicians are switching to social networks to keep on posting and tweeting their views and ideas about the ongoing national and local issues. This is really bringing politicians and leaders close to their people. For instance, a Member of Parliament in India is at an average representing a couple of millions of [...]

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What could make advertising competitive?

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 24, 2009 – 4:30 pm

Traditionally there has been a Television service provider who buys content and airs that over its network. In return the television channels sell ad slots during the programmes and get their revenues. Over the years, advertising has become an essential element for the companies. In India, they spent crores (Million) of rupees on advertisements per [...]

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Aircel leads the growth in mobile market for March in private operators segment

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 22, 2009 – 6:47 pm

Recently, I have witnessed a significant increase in the advertising of Aircel. So thought, they must be now trying to build up as a national brand. Till now, it was focusing the southern part of India. For the month of March, over 15 million subscribers have been added in the wireless segment. In absolute terms [...]

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India needs mobile services for kids

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 10, 2009 – 4:16 pm

Mobile phones and an individual have become inseparable. Leaving apart its dark sides, it is proving beneficial in several ways. For business people, it means optimization of time and for the general masses it means timely communication in case of emergencies. India is facing many issues that make the lives of the people insecure. People [...]

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Let political parties intensify usage of technology in campaigning for India elections 2009

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 3, 2009 – 5:49 pm

The bugle for 15th General Lok Sabha elections has already been blown. Political parties have started coming back to people with their ‘what they did’, ‘what others did not do’ and ‘what they will do’. Campaigning is one of the critical elements of electioneering and in India it plays a vital role in the final [...]

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IPTV offers must have ‘visible’ value addition to allure subscribers in India

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 2, 2009 – 3:13 pm

IPTV for the end users is another way of watching television. In India, like many other countries it is the latest in the world of broadcast. Like many other consumer oriented technologies, IPTV in India can be a great success. This is firmly believed by many vendors and operators who are willing to get in [...]

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Emergency number calling should not be a hitch for Internet Telephony in India

Icon WrittenFaisal Kawoosa on April 1, 2009 – 12:58 pm

Recently there has been a series of communication between TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) and Department of Telecommunications, Government of India about the formulation of regulations for Internet Telephony or VoIP in the country. As is common with bureaucracy, such correspondences trigger a series of communications between the two parties and the same happened [...]

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