Re:India, Jio, and the Four Internets
by elSidCampeador on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:33PM
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I would argue that in fact this bet of 4G is "some great vision of the future" - but who's future, you ask? RIL's.
The man had the "vision" to put in place a massive nationwide telecom network to reduce his dependence on oil - what more "vision" does one need?
Not setting up a body shopping entity is hardly big loss to Reliance.
> that set of skills has nothing to do with charting out a vision that will work in future.
How have IT/Retail/Real Estate/ Banking/ Airlines and so on vision worked in India. I see it again none too well. So what's the big deal if Reliance's vision did not pan out.
> But the other stuff, the stuff that actually requires vision, is waiting to blow in India. ...
Same crap, different pile. Good that you have option to move around though.
> This bet on 4G/cloud/platforms etc is not because of some great vision of the future..
No shit. Neither was IT industry. It was just labor cost arbitrage.
> Plus there is the small issue of huge existing players who are not exactly lining up to bend over to the Ambanis.
Could be that they live in caves in Himalayas or deep under Arabian sea. Never heard of those "huge existing players" in India who are not bending over to Ambani.