TRAI gives jolt to iPhone fans in India!

By Jayakishore Bayadi

Though iPhone mania is on its peak, across the globe, Telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has given another jolt to iPhone fans in India. As TRAI has increased base price of 3G auctions for participating companies, industry experts feel that this would make 3G services in the country costlier, which will affect prospectus of iPhone 3G in India.

Here is how. To experience the “real iPhone 3G features” to the maximum, it needs 3G networks, which is currently not available in India. But as of now, AirTel and Vodafone who will be launching iPhone 3G here will offer iPhone 3G services through their existing 2G networks. So, when India will see the 3G networks materialized sometime in the future, service providers for the iPhone will switch to the 3G networks. According to an industry source, at that time 3G tariffs will be much higher than anticipated, which will be inevitable for service providers as TRAI has made them to cough up more money for 3G spectrum.

Last Friday the TRAI proposed to raise the base price for operators participating in the auction of 3G spectrum. The base price for 3G services has been revised up wards from Rs.1400 crore to Rs. 2200 crore for a Pan-India license. “Which will certainly affect 3G tariffs in the future,” said an Analyst while talking to SiliconIndia.

Because of its higher voice capacity, 3G services will facilitate the delivery of far more cost-effective voice; the Internet and data transport services with much lesser cost than 2G. However, this will happen only if operators do not have to pay exorbitant prices for 3Gspectrum. But now the operators who need 3G spectrum need to pay higher base price, which could lead to high costs and tariffs, which in turn completely negate the tremendous capacity advantage that 3G has to offer.

The key to the success of 3G will lie in its price, that is, if it has to become a mass service. It can be recalled that 3G did not take off in the west because of the exorbitant prices attached to its spectrum, which made the service unaffordable and restricted to a niche market.

The Indian consumer is highly price sensitive, as has been amply demonstrated in the case of 2G services, where exponential growth took place as competition increased and tariffs dropped. The same principles will hold good for 3G as well. Affordability of 3G services will be a critical factor in the success of 3G in India.
Airtel and Vodafone announced a tie-up with Apple recently to bring the iPhone 3G to India. The companies already started pre-registering customers for the iPhone 3G, and ever since, offices and blogs have been abuzz with discussions on how Apple’s new iPhone 3G will be bundled with two year contract with the service provider, like in the U.S., will fare in the India’s mass mobile market.

Courtecy:siliconindia

Iam glad that this news published by siliconIndia has been carried by top tech wesites like EETimesIndia and AltaVista News

Hats off to HC for making our BULLSHIT literary savants to understand the importance of ENGLISH!

By Jayakishore Bayadi
Finally honorable HC passed the message loud and clear. English is necessary in the present world. Now, the private schools can teach in English and parents can choose the medium of instruction for their children.

Ruled the great Karnataka High Court on Wednesday. Hats off to HC for such a landmark judgement. The Times of India Reports: The full Bench of the Karnataka High Court headed by Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and comprising Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice N Kumar termed the Karnataka government’s 1994 order making Kannada a compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools as unconstitutional and ruled that parents had the freedom to choose the language for their wards.

The Karnataka Unaided Schools’ Managements Association had challenged the government’s order in the court in 1994. The ruling is welcome, considering parents had little choice in the matter for several years. The broader feeling is that globalization makes it imperative for nations to share English as a linguistic medium. A common language in areas such as science, technology and business cannot only augment efficiency levels, but also open up employment and entrepreneurial opportunities. Secondly, it’ll go a long way in removing the inequity in educational avenues for children coming from low-income families. Why should they be deprived of a choice? All this, however, should not in any way affect the promotion and growth of Kannada about which the court has given some suggestions.

In the 318-page judgment, the court observed: “The government policy compelling children studying in other government recognized schools (private) to have primary education only in the mother tongue or the regional language is violative of Article 19(1)(g), 26 and 30(1) of the Constitution. If the parents want their children to have primary education in English they are not committing any crime. It is neither illegal nor opposed to public policy. The choice of medium of instruction is left to parents and children.’’

MY PERSPECTIVE: In my opinion, this is a landmark judgment because; there are lots of guys and gals in our semi urban and rural area in interior parts of the state who are deprived of studying in English medium. The situation is so pathetic that they don’t know even how to write a Leave Letter properly. If government brings in COMPULSURY KANNADA MEDIUM RULE, there is a chance that those guys will not get any chance to learn things in English. And every one knows that today’s globalized world needs ‘global talent’ who can deliver global quality.

It is a well-known fact that those who studied in the Kannada medium always struggle to deliver quality work in today’s corporate world’s requirements and hence suffer a lot. They are looked down on par with the guys who know very good communicative English, just because they don’t know how to communicate (verbal as well as written)in English effectively, despite having groovy potential to deliver the global quality work.

For Chameleon natured, so called eminent Kannada writers like U R Ananthamurthy, Champa, and many others, who advocates or press for imposition of “Compulsory Kannada medium”, might have got jolt from this historical judgment. May be, for next few weeks, our Kannada Press fraternity will run a massive campaign on this subject containing the opinions (normally it will be always a hokum) of these “Nonsensical” writers or supposed “Think tanks”, who always deliver “Bullshit” or copied stuffs from western literatures in the name of “Creativity” and “Inspiration”.

We had great literary personalities like Shivaram Karanth, Masti Venkatesha Aiyangar, and DVG who ‘really’ contributed for Kannada literature. But important thing we have to remember here is they all lived what they wrote! They were never Chameleons. It’s our misfortune that we don’t have such celebs between us now except a few like S.L.Bhyrappa.

My sincere request to honorable government is that please do not listen to the nonsense writers (most of them send their children to Baldwins, St. Josephs or Bishop Cottons) like Baraguru Ramachandrappa, Champa, silly politicians like Vatal Nagaraj, or members of Kannada 'Oraatagarara' Sangha, if I am correct, Kannada Rakshana Vedike and other goons operating in the name of Kannada. Because ultimately they won’t suffer, as they just want PR in the media to sell their crap.

However, the real sufferers are those in interior parts of our state who really need education in global standard to conquer the world. And to achieve that, they need only ENGLISH, a good practical ENGLISH, nothing else!

Please let them learn what they want. Let them build their future on their own.
Mr. Yeddyurappa, please live, and let live.

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