End of four year journey

Google moving out of China reminds me of its entry four year back. Google on that time said that we are entering into China with some censorship issues because this country is "nation of the decade". But it was not an easy task to go against your own rule that is "Freedom of Information". Most important is the survey consisting 27000 Chinese, 78% of whom said "don't care if Google makes an exist". Finally Google said that they are moving to Hong Kong which is out of "Great Firewall of China".

Still i feel that this decision is the outcome of falling search market share. Baidu has emerged as the largest search giant of the largest internet market China. This made there decision easy as recruiting local employees was not giving them any advantage. So in the end they decided that making an exit is the best option.

If i talk about the benefit to India, i hope that Google server and main Asia office will come to Banglore. But you know that hope takes no time to get scattered, hence Google might choose Hong Kong as the best option as there economy and currency shoots Google more. India still had very less penetration but with "wimax" it may increase so i hope that Google may find India a better option as we have the potential to beat China's 220 million net users count.

It will interesting to see what is next step of Google.

Vodafone leads UP(E) with 43% market share

In UP(E) we have several GSM players include Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Tata Docomo, Reliance, BSNL and Uninor. I still remember that when Reliance launched its CDMA in Rs 501, everyone wants to have one as we never thought that mobile can be as cheap. On that time we do not know what is GSM and CDMA. We only know "mobile". Then with the launch of BSNL we all ran thinking its sarkari i.e. cheap and also we were habitual of BSNL landlines.

After one month we saw BSNL GSM going out of stock and people decided to search for a different player and ended search with a HUTCH gsm. Since hutch was loosing its place in rest of India, sold its stake to Vodafone and we saw world's top telecom company entering the Indian market.

Since then Vodafone leads UP(E). Even with launch of Reliance cheapest call rates and sms pack Vodafone leads with 43% and Airtel follows with 19%. Relaince, Uninor and Docomo are leading its way in UP due to cheap tarrif which claims top stop among students. So I hope Vodafone will bring better tariffs as only Zoozoo's Fan Club cannot be enough to gain revenues.

Reliance has good tariffs but very weak network coverage

Reliance GSM has a very good tariff plan and practically the cheapest but due to its bad network and not a clarity in Voice Call many have moved back to Airtel or Vodafone which has the best network in India.

Till we can't talk to our pals with clarity there is no use of any other tariff and we also require a cheaper medium to communicate. To solve this problem i saw the trend of two mobile phones or dual sim so that they can use one for low rates and other for good network in case of emergency.

I wanna say that we require a company which can supply both facility. I found a solution to it but that can only sustain with 3G. Install mobile apps like 1.Nimbuzz for Free Calling and 2. 160by2 for Free SMS. Now get a cheaper gprs plan. But the problem is that both requires the same. I hope with time we will get this apps facility in cheaper mobiles (as all 3G mobiles have this facility) and this problem can be solved.