http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/comment-page-1/#comment-130860 Indian Editor | Electricity is the Bottleneck for Mobile Penetration in Rural India [Gauravonomics Combined Feed] | IndianEditor.com Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:31:35 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/#comment-130860 [...] <!–break–>Atanu Dey on why electricity is the bottleneck for mobile usage in rural India – We don’t usually associate telecommunications with power. But cellular towers don’t work on love and fresh air (and fresh air is not something that you can take for granted, anyway.) They require power and in areas where the grid is unreliable, you have to spend fairly large sums on diesel generator sets. That, among others, is a major problem in rural India. The cost of energy accounts for a third of the operating costs of a cellular network, I am told. Higher costs means higher prices. So what’s to be done. [...] [...] <!–break–>Atanu Dey on why electricity is the bottleneck for mobile usage in rural India – We don’t usually associate telecommunications with power. But cellular towers don’t work on love and fresh air (and fresh air is not something that you can take for granted, anyway.) They require power and in areas where the grid is unreliable, you have to spend fairly large sums on diesel generator sets. That, among others, is a major problem in rural India. The cost of energy accounts for a third of the operating costs of a cellular network, I am told. Higher costs means higher prices. So what’s to be done. [...]

]]> http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/comment-page-1/#comment-130753 Electricity is the Bottleneck for Mobile Penetration in Rural India | Gauravonomics Blog Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:05:42 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/#comment-130753 [...] Atanu Dey on why electricity is the bottleneck for mobile usage in rural India – We don’t usually associate telecommunications with power. But cellular towers don’t work on love and fresh air (and fresh air is not something that you can take for granted, anyway.) They require power and in areas where the grid is unreliable, you have to spend fairly large sums on diesel generator sets. That, among others, is a major problem in rural India. The cost of energy accounts for a third of the operating costs of a cellular network, I am told. Higher costs means higher prices. So what’s to be done. [...] [...] Atanu Dey on why electricity is the bottleneck for mobile usage in rural India – We don’t usually associate telecommunications with power. But cellular towers don’t work on love and fresh air (and fresh air is not something that you can take for granted, anyway.) They require power and in areas where the grid is unreliable, you have to spend fairly large sums on diesel generator sets. That, among others, is a major problem in rural India. The cost of energy accounts for a third of the operating costs of a cellular network, I am told. Higher costs means higher prices. So what’s to be done. [...]

]]> http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/comment-page-1/#comment-130745 anuj Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:13:24 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/10/20/telecommunications-and-rural-india/#comment-130745 Without power, the rural have nots are also going to have a tough time re-charging their cell phone batteries. Without power, the rural have nots are also going to have a tough time re-charging their cell phone batteries.

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