Comments on: Lessons from India part i - Super Cheap Mobile prices http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/30/lessons-from-india-part-i-super-cheap-mobile-prices/ Start-ups, Maps and Local Search in New Zealand Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: john http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/30/lessons-from-india-part-i-super-cheap-mobile-prices/#comment-964 john Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:32 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/30/lessons-from-india-part-i-super-cheap-mobile-prices/#comment-964 Yeah, I know. I was in India when they were selling 100K mobiles a month just in Bombay. I was just in a state that has had mobile coverage for only 18 months and less than a million people. Their prices are higher than rest of India, but still lower by miles than NZ. My problem is that NZ's pricing is higher other countries and its killing the development of the mobile platform in NZ. We have a low number of mobile services compared with other countries. We still don't have anywhere near the range of services that were available in India in 2002. We have a problem of "3rd world broadband" (which is being fixed. We have a worse problem of "3rd world mobile services and prices. Its a rant, I know. I just annoyed that nothing is happening .... Yeah, I know. I was in India when they were selling 100K mobiles a month just in Bombay. I was just in a state that has had mobile coverage for only 18 months and less than a million people. Their prices are higher than rest of India, but still lower by miles than NZ.

My problem is that NZ’s pricing is higher other countries and its killing the development of the mobile platform in NZ. We have a low number of mobile services compared with other countries. We still don’t have anywhere near the range of services that were available in India in 2002.

We have a problem of “3rd world broadband” (which is being fixed. We have a worse problem of “3rd world mobile services and prices.

Its a rant, I know. I just annoyed that nothing is happening ….

]]> By: izo http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/30/lessons-from-india-part-i-super-cheap-mobile-prices/#comment-962 izo Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:24:08 +0000 http://blog.projectxtech.com/2007/10/30/lessons-from-india-part-i-super-cheap-mobile-prices/#comment-962 I'm not sure if such direct comparison is valid - average income in india is much much lower than in NZ, plus amount of subscribers there scales the business to a level unseen elsewhere. regards m. I’m not sure if such direct comparison is valid - average income in india is much much lower than in NZ, plus amount of subscribers there scales the business to a level unseen elsewhere.

regards
m.

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