Yesterday’s
Economic Times carried following news :
May
woo unlicensed entities by asking them not to share revenue
Extract :
Telcos are united, for
once, in opposition to the plan on the grounds that the move would disrupt a
level-playing
field and violate current law.
The older telcos are
typically ranged against new entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm.
The tussle comes as
the government, at its highest levels, is keen on making public WiFi an election plank as an extension of Digital India and a symbol of
its success, say industry insiders.
To that end, DoT is considering ways to make the programme attractive for all
stakeholders in a bid to rapidly
roll out hotspots--500,000
across the country by the end
of 2018, with at least one in
every village in India.
I
recollect that around 1972 , Central Govt ( under Indira Gandhi ) erected /
commissioned 2,000 TV transmission towers , all over
India, within one year
If
I am not mistaken, looming general election was the motivating force at that
time too
That
single act ( whatever the motive ) , gave rise to TV industry as we know today
But
soon came Cable TV and DTH
TV and made those towers “ obsolete “
But
that disruption gradually happened over next 30 years
In
2018 , things move fast
I
would not be surprised if those 500,000 Wi-Fi Hot Spots get “ obsolete “ within
the next 5 years !
By
Li-Fi
Content “ streaming “ down ( or even up / sideways )
using ordinary LED bulbs in each and every home
( and from each and every Street Lamp ? ) at 10 Gbps
What
will this do to 1 Gbps
JioGigaFibre
announced by Reliance just 3 days back ?
Short
answer :
Disrupt
“
What / Who” else is in the process of
getting “ disrupted “ or about to get disrupted – even if difficult to perceive
as such ?
( Current Industry ) getting
disrupted by ( New
Comers )
* Coal based Power Plants >
Solar Power
Plants
* Banking Industry
> FinTech
Mobile Apps
* Airlines / Railways > Hyperloops >
Holo-portation
* Petrol –Diesel Cars
> Electric
Cars
* Paper-based Newspapers > Walls
of homes
* Electric Transmission Lines > Roof
Top Solar Panels
* Mobile Phones
> Wear-ables
( tattoos – glasses – watches etc )
* Humans Effort
> Robots
* Supply Chain Delivery > Drones
* Car Ownership > Autonomous Ride Sharing
* Manual Stock Trading
> Algorithm-based
trading
* Black Money > Currency
notes embedded with RFID sensors
* Fiat based Currencies
> Crypto
Currencies
* Lithium-ion Car Batteries
> Metal
Air ( Alu ) Batteries
* Job Portals > Google Job
Search
* Battery Charging Stations
> Piezo-Electric
Generating roads
* Data Protection Law ( Draft )> Privacy
is Dead
* Construction Industry
> 3 D
Printed Houses
* Telecom / ISPs
> Powerline
Broadband with Li Fi
But
Telecom Operators and ISPs ( Internet Service Providers ) are
crying “ foul “ !
They
are saying :
“
Public Wi Fi is a
threat to security and lead to a non-level playing field between licensed and
unlicensed players “
If
they have their way , they would want to take me back 60 years when I needed two
“ Licenses “ to own / operate two radios
in my home and renew those licenses every year by standing in a long queue at a
post office for paying Rs 5 / 10 , as annual renewal fee !
These
days, I don’t need a licence , either for my radio or my TV , but I need to
provide a lot of info about myself to the Mobile Service Provider, in the form
of KYC ( Know Your Customer ) for owning a Mobile Phone
But
what happens when 10,000 items in my home ( from door handles to every ball pen to every piece of currency note in my home ), gets
a IP V 6.0 internet connection
( there will be 50,000 trillions available per
person ) ?
Each
of those items will form a part of Internet of Things [ IoT ] and will be capable of
transmitting CONTENT ( voice – data – images ) , all over the World
And they won’t need ANY LICENSE from anybody !
What will that do to the Telecom / ISP ?
Shri
Rajan Mathew ( Director General – COAI ) / Shri Rajesh Chharia ( President –
Internet Service Providers Association of India ) may want to alert their
member companies to watch out for the “ Shape of
Things to Come “
Reference
:
09 July
2018
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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