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To: S100 who wrote (3594)	10/9/2001 8:21:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12254

<"We are now discussing with [the] Reliance and Tata [business groups] to make CDMA handsets in India," Sang Suk Lee, managing director of Samsung Electronics India Information and Telecommunication (SEIIT), said on Tuesday. The Indian government in January allowed unlimited competition in the fixed-line business and also permitted basic service providers to offer a limited radius mobile service to customers based on CDMA WLL technology. India's largest business conglomerate, the Reliance group, and Tata Teleservices, part of the Tata industrial group, the country's second-largest business group, have both started fixed-line services.> Here comes India? 50 years ago, they ditched the British. Foolishly, they have also started to ditch English language, to quite an extent, in the interests of nationalism, which will limit the economic opportunity of young people, with no benefit to India. But that's what you get with introspective tribal societies. Sure, there are a lot of people speak Hindi, but it doesn't compare with American [not English] or Mandarin. If they ditch their socialist ways [as China has been doing to enormous economic advantage] they could start to be more like Singapore than the dirty, impoverished place it currently is. Maybe this is a move in the right direction. I would love to see a billion Indians using CDMA phones and cyberspace links. They love reading [the literate ones] and communications, like the rest of us, so they'll be avid consumers of CDMA mobile cybermegabytes. As with China, since they don't currently have much in the way of communication methods, they'll very rapidly adopt CDMA when they are economically freed from isolationism and socialism, because it is the cheapest way to get communications going. With prices rapidly dropping and functionality rapidly increasing, they'll step straight into the 21st century cyberspace age, skipping the 20th century altogether [though they do have some rickety trains and leftover train stations from the British Raj]. India is also a nice place socially. They like civilization but have had a hard time getting the technology and capital to go with it. Opening the borders to capital flows and foreign investment is one way to do it. Mqurice