Voice or video – which platform would light the next fire in mobile domain?

World cup being not so far away, cricket rules the mind of most Indians – the coverage especially. None of the cricket fans care to miss even a moment of the game. It is not so impossible to understand why they wish 3G/WiMax was a reality now which would give them access to down live video streaming of matches on their mobile. (Business Line article) 

If the roll out of 3G/WiMax occurs in 2007 and all goes well, by 2008 we can look forward to applications which indulges our need to communicate and express our opinion . They could be: 

• Video chatting on mobile
• Video blogging from mobile 
• Video enabled interactive TV
• Disaster management
• Medical help

But, then like all good intentions, this too is dependent on actual implementation. Service cost, coverage area, ease of use, handset cost – all this will determine the popularity of these applications. I for one, am looking forward to using these services for relief management and making good education easily available to people sitting in remote corners of the country.    

 

 

Motorola to tap into Indian WiMAX market

Motorola is in discussions with Telecom operators to provide network and equipment for offering WiMAX services (high-speed Internet access over a wireless connection). Motorola will design networks and provide customer premises equipment (CPEs) and handhelds. Indian market is forecasted to grow from current 2 million to 30 million by year 2010. Samsung and Alcatel are other vendors eyeing the Indian wireless broadband market.  (As reported in Economic Times)