Gyaan Sutra On entrepreneurship and technology

Sujai Karampuri, writes on Sramana Mitra’s Blog, about the cost per line of broadband in India. He says

The decrease in cost per line will come from two factors- decrease in the cost of equipment and from the inherent advantage of wireless when adding new lines. The base stations which cost $3000-$5000 now will start costing $400-$800 by end of 2008. The CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) which costs $200-$400 now will start costing $30-$80 by end of 2008.

He adds that Residential broadband services will start turning out to be lucrative only in mid-2008 when the existing network can easily be used for increasing the capacities to cater to homes.

Would e-commerce have to hang on for the moment?

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