Now you can SMS in your Mother tongue: will this technology be successful?

Yes I do agree. The first reason is Most of the indians are Uneducated it will help them to convey their thoughts the way they want to . Sending Sms in their Mother tongue helps them to communicate clearly there by making use of technology.

This is how Technology is being utilized by common man.

Good. It will give impetus to rural telecom revolution.

this is very big step tken towards to save the human life.and the controlling of pollution.give me chance to participate in this .i want that every one knows the value of water to do this we don't have to give any type of strike we should do work .there are so many societies in forgen who send money in india to clean oldest among the river like ganga .to this there should be some projetcs.like filtering and sepration of watse material and used them to recycle or genrate electricity.if every one wants this would be simple.starts from the small places just varanasi ,allahbad ,kanpur

Absolutely..No doubt about that.. As a matter of fact, telecom service providers have already started focusing on the rural market.. Reuters in tieup with Idea cellular is providing farmers in Punjab with highly customized information regarding agriculture, market prices of different crops, weather forecasts etc. reuters have expanded its service in statesof Andhra and TN. So when opportunities are very attractive in rural markets, there s no doubt that this facility will be incorporated in handsets and will also be very successful in the future..

yes i think so ..............

Yes, to some extent because using local languages will be preferred in rural areas and India considered to be huge rural market the technology may be successful.

yes i am totally agree acording to the way of thinking towards country side and also communication barrires lots of people come through it those who are not much familiar with the english langauges specially in Indian Villages.That Step should be Developed as per the demand as my friend already told in the comment understanable keypads for old ones and all other necessary facility like Map etc. Now it is a new step towards Indian patriotism like Japan used to do in his countary only japanese are followed bythem now its our turn that we should not forget about mother tounge...

Might do good in rural areas .. wherein english is not well spoken or understood

first of all this technology is already there in many Nokia phones which people are liking a lot..........

Having been involved in implementing SMS in other languages other than Latin languages, I think there is one more issue to support SMS in Indian languages i.e usage by the end user.

Implementation and key pad mapping can be done with the technology and with Unicode support. However for the end user to type a "whole character" it will be really pain. Here I am not even talking about typing the words. When we implemented Hindi - to key in my name "Rama" which looked simple took more than 10 key strokes to type 2 characters.