<Does anyone know why we've heard little about CDMA in India? Their
population has also topped 1 billion and with the enormous urban centers, it
seems like an ideal place for Qualcomm to push CDMA deployment. I searched
through the company's press releases (back to Jan 1999) and didn't get a
single hit mentioning India and CDMA. I haven't really looked into it but it just
seemed strange the there was so much hoopla over China when India is
almost as large, growing at a faster pace (expected to eventually pass China
as the world's most populace nation) and who's government is not
communist.>
QUALCOMM has hired people from India and goofs around a bit there. India has been heavily socialist for half a century. They chucked the British out and thought that would make things better. Now they are even dumping English somewhat, which they think will make things better. They vote to stay poor. Democracy doesn't mean wealth - it simply means mob rule. If most people vote for poor, that's what you get. Of course they don't actually think "Gee, it would be good to be poor - let's vote it in". They do like the average New Zealander - ensure their economic ignorance, adopt an attitude of cargo-cultism, then vote in a left-wing socialist approach.
Democracy and state-owned property and state control! Hey Presto, instant poverty. Also, it's hot in India. Temperate to cold in China.
Until India votes to open their borders and let money flow freely with property rights, they'll stay poor.
China is dumping state owned businesses into competition. They are allowing foreign investment big time. Stuff like that. Sure, they are totalitarian. But like Singapore, people quite like civilization, even at the price of some personal freedom and it can make them rich in a generation. Singapore was a dump 50 years ago before Lee Kwan Yew came along and made everyone stand at attention and lashed Yankee punks who dared to graffiti. New Zealanders used to go shopping in cheap Singapore. Now they come shopping here and are buying not consumer goods, but buildings and other assets.
It's private enterprise, rule of law and property rights which make a place rich. It's not great DNA or democracy. Taiwan and South Korea are new to democracy, but they've been getting richer for decades.
So when India decides to ditch their muck, they'll do well too. They are no hotter than Singapore! Singapore was also British-ruled. So was China. So was Hong Kong.
They'll all be 3G CDMA by QUALCOMM by 2010. Billions and billions of subscribers!! There's not enough spectrum for GSM to be used.
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