Ajay, you didn't answer the question, which was how come we don't hear anything about CDMA in India? I explained some reasons. Why do you think cellphone usage in India is tiny and CDMA of either flavour isn't mentioned?
Clinton predicts India to be the world's largest economy for 2050? Surpassing the USA? Well, it must be so then. Not much sign of it so far. How about the internet economy? I think the Web World will make USA and India combined look trivial by 2050. 50 years from now is so far into the future, you might as well forget about it.
$90bn by 2008? If that's right, that would be [assuming only 1bn people in India then - the rest will escape to beautiful New Zealand or beautiful but unpleasant Fiji], $90 per person. Gee, that's not even one cellphone each. Who will be the big trading partners?
Ajay, way back in the mid 1980s I was advocating BP Oil set up shop in India and China because there are vast hordes of under-educated high IQ women [and others] living there who would love to get free of cultural revolutions, rice paddies, dirt and militaristic repression. Turn them loose on R&D and the WWeb and watch the world improve very very fast. The fact that Soros, Murdoch and a few other Johny-come-latelies are doing so doesn't explain why cellphones haven't taken off in India does it?
India has lots of engineering graduates who now live in the USA. So what that India has lots of engineering and medical graduates? How does that explain the lack of CDMA and cellphones in India? They leave India and work for Alcatel, Q! and the modern world. As you point out, Si Valley has lots of Indians.
India is dumping English. I listened to a young guy moaning about the school he'd gone to which dumped English and then when he wanted to get a real job, the first thing needed is English. Not many can speak English. There are nearly 300 million in the USA who speak and can read English. You think 1:3 Indians can speak and read English? Half the women can't read ANYTHING, let alone English. You better check outside university and USA.
Hot people are sleepy people. They can't be all get up and go when it's a swelteringly hot tropical climate. When they get air-conditioning, it's a lot easier. Look across the temperate zones of the world - those are always the wealthy places. Egypt 5000 years ago was a bit more temperate, having come out of the ice-age not that long befpre. Temperate moved north! Poverty is related to demand for technological gadgets - no money, no gadgets.
Yes, I've heard of the Himalayas. A Kiwi showed the Indians and everyone else how to climb Mount Everest. [Which to me means the locals who didn't bother had a lot more sense - if less sense of adventure]. Is it now crowded up there now or do most people actually live on the flat, where it's hot?
Anyway, it's tough to have one cooler part of a country rich when the rest is poor. Countries tend to be somewhat homogenous economically. Anyway, here's the weather forecast for New Delhi, which is up north. It seems hotter than temperate to me.
worldexecutive.com
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
Mostly Cloudy
High: 33 91
Low: 31 88
Partly Cloudy
High: 32 90
Low: 31 88
Partly Cloudy
High: 36 97
Low: 26 79
Partly Cloudy
High: 39 102
Low: 26 79
Partly Cloudy
High: 39 102
Low: 26 79
So, maybe you have got some reasons why India doesn't reach the CDMA radar?
Ajay, don't sling the "blatant prejudice" stuff around! Be a bit less defensive and a bit more analytical. Heck, some of my best friends are Indians and I definitely think they should be treated as human, so you can see that I'm not racist. Anyway, since you seem to have some ideas, why do you think India is so far behind China on CDMA? That really is a serious question - please don't be distracted by my tongue-in-cheek joke about 'best friends' etc... which is a jibe at actual racists and the prejudiced [such as you, denigrating those superior beings: Kiwis].
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