Telecom & India

Gowri

Your series on Telecom is quite interesting and I am sure you will elongate it much more than my naive questions.....Honestly I have never heard of Sam Petroda's name earlier and I thought he could be the BIL of our Late PM (I mean Sonia's brother or cousin.... hi hi)

But, with due regards to your praise on Rajeev, I feel that the mushrooming of PCOs is mainly due to our overpopulated scenario which I dont think was envisioned by Rajeev.....I read some thing else some time back in totally different context....The article was about the land pollution due to plastic materials which the western countries got alert in late 80's.....

While lamenting the fate of our country where we have started using Polythene extensively, the article ends with a comfort that we may not affected at the rate at which those developed countries got affected.....Reason ?? we have a huge industry of collecting the garbage for more than two decades who ensure that they dont allow any thing that can be encashed to go waste....even now, I have watched some of them actively "stealing" the wanted things from ONYX Dust Bins before the huge lorry comes for a round for collection....

The overpopulation brings its own ways of plusses and minuses.....Referring back to the Onyx Lorries, I have watched quite surprised that exactly similar type of lorries at Gothburg (sweden) used to be managed by just one person (just one....many of them are ladies also)...they drive the vehicle, park it in a corner close to the Dust bins, use the remote operated fork lifts, place back the dust bin, get into the vehicle to move on to next street.....In our country, we have at least 3 people doing this job not so efficiently...I am not talking about the number of bins cleared here BUT about the productivity....they dont clear it much faster than that 6 feet woman of sweden....

So the upsurge of PCOs, Cell phones and Mobikes are all welcome for this country......which happened to some extend due to paucity of leadership of factoring into such factors....

I am only afraid if the latest 1 lac car of Tata (is it going to be still at the same price) is going to be another huge success.....before the Kathipara Flyover is fully built......!!

suchoo