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America Needs a New Approach to SMS – Learning from India

February 5, 2009

Indian rates for SMS are now at 8 paise. 100 paise to the Rupee. about 47 rupees to the dollar. So $.003 per SMS locally in India today. Guess what, use is exploding! That doesn’t compare very well with the US where we are paying a posted rate of 20 cents per SMS. Now I [...]

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What Everyone in India seems to know about the iPhone and why they aren’t excited by it

February 4, 2009

While visiting India over the last two weeks I had my usual set of shocks and observations. Sometimes they get blogged and they also fit with other contextual things I’m seeing. What surprised me about these observations and comments I heard this time, was who spoke them. From kids to adults they “know” about the [...]

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