Comments on: When innovation doesn't reach the people… http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/ Anant Narayanan Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:24:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Across the Stars » Blog Archive » Ghosts I-IV (and the best music of 08) http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/#comment-997 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:43:39 +0000 http://www.kix.in/blog/?p=246#comment-997 [...] are the days where you need large amounts of money to produce and distribute your work of art. As I said earlier, the whole point of technology is to make things cheaper, faster and better for everyone involved, [...]

]]> By: Rahul Murmuria http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/#comment-996 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:34:02 +0000 http://www.kix.in/blog/?p=246#comment-996 Seriously! I second this opinion! AT&T is fleecing me here in the United States. The stupid concept of credit history did not help my cause further! Can’t even buy a postpaid connection till I have credit history :(

]]> By: Ashish Shukla http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/#comment-993 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:33:53 +0000 http://www.kix.in/blog/?p=246#comment-993 That is probably one of the reasons why we don’t have multicast enabled throughout the internet :P .

]]> By: Anant http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/#comment-994 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:10:13 +0000 http://www.kix.in/blog/?p=246#comment-994 Nope. Broadband internet, Landline telephones and other services run on the SAME infrastructure. Maintaining the network does NOT cost that much! Not the amount that the operators are charging, in any case. If that weren’t true; all the operators in India would be running into huge losses, which I know they aren’t.

On the issue of making cellphone companies rich so they can do cool R&D, well that applies to any industry. But we still don’t overpay car manufacturers, civil engineers or food companies just so they can develop cool new products. R&D can and will happen without corporates with giant profit margins.

]]> By: sqweek http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/#comment-995 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:16:46 +0000 http://www.kix.in/blog/?p=246#comment-995 Surely it’s not transferring the data that is the cost, but the cost of maintaining the network?
Would the mobile infrastructure that exists today be in place if not for past profiteering? If Ericsson had less comfortable profit margins, would they have had the inclination/resources to develop Erlang?

Cheap communication would be a great thing, I agree. But I’m not sure great necessarily implies “right”, or “appropriate”.

(Note: you may have realised already that I don’t have any direct experience with telecommunications. I don’t even own a mobile, so there’s a certain amount of speculation in my post)
-sqweek

]]> By: Jeremy Olexa http://kix.in/2008/09/05/when-innovation-doesnt-reach-the-people/#comment-992 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:12:34 +0000 http://www.kix.in/blog/?p=246#comment-992 Right on, thanks for the post and spreading it to the masses.

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