Economists Foresee a Mobile Boom in the Country as Sociologists See Red

It is really exciting to know that the Indian mobile industry is expecting a big positive boom in the near future. Particularly if you are a youngster who is of any age less than twenty five. I will be playing myself the curmudgeon, if I give you a reason such as the 'steadily declining mobile handset prices', all the more for it is known by even the under-literate children of rural India these days. So I would like to come directly to the core and emphasise three vital points that would be enough substantiation for the above statement.

The first and the most significant point to add to the credibility of the statement is a much anticipated as well as interesting way to cut the call charges. This is all about revolutionising your good old caller back ringtone (CBRT), which is the tone that your caller hears when the person dials you up and waits for your attention. Why should not you replace your boring filmy ringtone with an advertisement that would fetch you some savings? Of course, the operator will definitely get his share from the advertising entity, although unlike all other commercial advertising modes that is found today, it strictly warrants for your consent for the operators to play those. So, Pepsi or Coke would pay you (the consumer base) at least half the amount, if not more for playing their commercial snippets as your caller back ring tones. This concept has started getting popular and has been conveniently dubbed Ad CBRT by the industry.

Next point refers to the general implementation of a novel application that would replace the popular and conventional caller line identification programme (CLIP). If CLIP displayed on the screen the callers phone number, the new application will promptly display the name of the caller along with the number. Moreover, if you want to know more details of the caller, well you can dig it out with a couple of button presses (multi-touch these days). The implementation of this application that would be called caller name identification programme (CNIP) or caller detail identification programme (CDIP), is expected to rake in those people to mobile telephony, who are still apprehended due to security related anxiety. In short, this application can exculpate mobile telephony from all the abuse-related charges alleged by anxious parents, teachers, etc of the mobile bearing youth of the day.

The third is a bit more technology-based and has something to do with eco-friendliness as well. This is nothing but an enterprise mobile phone that runs on a high power solar battery. That says, you no more shall be worried about charging your mobile cell on the move.

If economists and market experts foresee a boom in the mobile industry of the country, there exists at least one group that does not vote for a mobile explosion among the youngsters. To support their theory the socio-psychologists cite the ever-increasing number of mobile phone related crimes in the country, the increased number of youngsters drifting away from the socially acceptable norms because of the spreading of the so called mobile culture, high occurrences of fatal differences between young couples, high instances of mobile-induced divorces, and above all a visible decline in the linguistic expertise of the mobile bearing youth.