The FCC ruling brings another avenue of growth for the communications industry that is bogged down by Mobile data explosion. Infoworld says that the 'Mobile data traffic is expected to increase by a factor of 12 by 2014 - to a mind-numbing 9.7 exabytes, or 9.7 million terabytes -- from what it was in 2008'. Freeing up of TV white spaces not only means reaching out to remote places, it also paves way to a plethora of new wireless devices. I was thinking on terms of what it means to India and the emerging markets. The rural India has adopted BPO with a bang . This meant women empowerment and growth for the poor strata. The caveat has been the lack of network coverage in remote areas. You might remember discussions around India ’s Rs. 1500 laptops . But rural adoption necessities coverage and also cost-effective technologies that scale up and go beyond the limitations of wi-fi. That was like the missing piece of the puzzle. This ruling can be leveraged to bring in that mis...
With a dance, each step getting me closer to the light.