@ Digital Summit: We're Bleeding. Where Are The Users? What's The Point Of Connectivity Sans Usage?

Published: January 10, 2008, 2:53 am

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The Q&A part of the India Digital Summit opened up with a couple of tough questions, but really no answers: "We've seen lots of presentations, lots of people who've started Internet companies that are bleeding. Everything was dependent on number of users - the claimed users from the IAMAI and IMRB was 45 million users. China is easily 100 million plus in terms of users. An ISP or an OS company like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is essentially responsible for growth. The other issue is of newer technology in the market - computer parts still have duty." The next comment, again for Ramamurthy Sivakumar, MD South Asia for Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to respond to: "We've been talking about critical mass for the whole of last year. But where is the usage? If there's no usage, what's the point of connectivity. You didn't compare stats between India and China, so shouldn't you be making projections of growth on the basis of a population comparison? Sivakumar, earlier in the session had put the onus

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