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Call me a sceptic, but the news about Intel Wi-Fi'ing Pune does not impress me. It has nothing to do with Intel, or Wi-Fi., or even Pune's general sluggishness. My grouse is that Indians, as almost a sub-culture among its corporate and bureaucratic elite, announce too many things, and deliver too little.
If I remember correctly, a few years ago, Bangalore was tipped to be India's first Wi-Fi city. It was a prime candidate -- it has a lot of techies, is perceived to be India's Silicon Valley, and surely has enough disposable income with its citizens for them to 'splurge' at Wi-Fi hotspots. It is 2006, and nobody is even talking about Wi-Fi'ing Bangalore, except Sify which has Wi-Fi'ed Bangalore a bit. In Mumbai, apart from the five-star hotels, there a few coffee shops owned by Barista that are Wi-Fi'ed.
To Wi-Fi a city, there has to be two things: The infrastructure to do it, and perhaps more importantly, a significant travelling population that goes around lugging laptops to meetings. Most Indian cities have neither.
I will be happy to be corrected since I'd love to learn more on this topic.
Call me a sceptic, but the news about Intel Wi-Fi'ing Pune does not impress me. It has nothing to do with Intel, or Wi-Fi., or even Pune's general sluggishness. My grouse is that Indians, as almost a sub-culture among its corporate and bureaucratic elite, announce too many things, and deliver too little.
If I remember correctly, a few years ago, Bangalore was tipped to be India's first Wi-Fi city. It was a prime candidate -- it has a lot of techies, is perceived to be India's Silicon Valley, and surely has enough disposable income with its citizens for them to 'splurge' at Wi-Fi hotspots. It is 2006, and nobody is even talking about Wi-Fi'ing Bangalore, except Sify which has Wi-Fi'ed Bangalore a bit. In Mumbai, apart from the five-star hotels, there a few coffee shops owned by Barista that are Wi-Fi'ed.
To Wi-Fi a city, there has to be two things: The infrastructure to do it, and perhaps more importantly, a significant travelling population that goes around lugging laptops to meetings. Most Indian cities have neither.
I will be happy to be corrected since I'd love to learn more on this topic.
posted by Sachin Kalbag at 6:19 am
2 Comments:
The newly formed Bangalore government has announced such a feature. You can read about it at my blog :http://india-it-pulse.blogspot.com/2006/01/bangalore-unwired.html
Hope these new promises in Bangalore and Pune turn out to be true soon. I however disagree on the infrastructure point. WiFi requires less than or just as much infrastructre as vell companies trying to install new towers. Even less if the WiFi companies decide to tie up with cellular operators and share the existing towers.
VJ
http://India-IT-Pulse.blogspot.com
Thank you, Flynn
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