Dhobi Ramkumar and his Mobile

Dilip D’Souza nicely illustrates how the mobile revolution has touched the lives of people living at the bottom of the pyramid in India.
In the middle of 2003, incoming calls to mobile phones became free. This was the trigger for the great phone boom in this country. And sure enough, just weeks after that, Ramkumar had [...]

India to launch satellite for multimedia broadcasts

India on Thursday announced plans to launch by 2008 a satellite capable of offering multimedia broadcasts to mobile phones and audio-video receivers fitted in vehicles.
The project to design, develop and launch GSAT-6/INSAT-4E, a multimedia mobile satellite system, at an estimated cost of Rs.2.69 billion ($58.5 million) was cleared by a meeting of the cabinet chaired [...]