Mumbai is a city of daily heavy commuting. I'm fine as it takes me only 2 hours a day to go to work and come back home. Spending so much time in a train/rikshaw/cab is quite boring and you feel that you wasting time. Then your mobile become a close friend to you as you can spoil time by calling, texting and playing. Nothing else like a book or a newspaper really fits in a packed train or cab where you hardly have space for your own. Back home in Germany they recently introduced the I phone which is considered as a big step towards 3G communication as a mass (or killer) application. India is far away of implementing a UMTS network, as they consider a bidding process for licenses next year. Implementation is expected by 2012.
Nevertheless mobile communication is the killer application in India, with current 217 Mio users and 8 Mio new subscribers each month. India is the fastest growthing mobile market in the world with a huge potential as only a fith of the population has access to mobiles services so far and network coverage in rural areas is still rare.
For me GPRS became a good friend as prices here are really cheap. (0,10 Rs per 10kb = 0,002 EUR) and again I'm amazed and enthusiastic of Google and their applications. Having Gmail and your mobile and reading and writing Mails is really basic, but mobile navigation via Google Maps can be vital in Mumbai, as orientation is generally quite tough. Especially if you trust the rikshaw driver and he himself is totally lost, but he still pretend to know the way. Normal procedure is to get off the riksh and change into another from this particular area, as the new driver probabley knows the area better. With Google Maps you still have an orientation and this tool is indeed a nice application to play with.
Nevertheless mobile communication is the killer application in India, with current 217 Mio users and 8 Mio new subscribers each month. India is the fastest growthing mobile market in the world with a huge potential as only a fith of the population has access to mobiles services so far and network coverage in rural areas is still rare.
For me GPRS became a good friend as prices here are really cheap. (0,10 Rs per 10kb = 0,002 EUR) and again I'm amazed and enthusiastic of Google and their applications. Having Gmail and your mobile and reading and writing Mails is really basic, but mobile navigation via Google Maps can be vital in Mumbai, as orientation is generally quite tough. Especially if you trust the rikshaw driver and he himself is totally lost, but he still pretend to know the way. Normal procedure is to get off the riksh and change into another from this particular area, as the new driver probabley knows the area better. With Google Maps you still have an orientation and this tool is indeed a nice application to play with.
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