âBased on our discussions with telecom operators, there are limitations and commercial constraints as far as satellite technology is concerned,” Prachur Sah, managing director and CEO of Indus Towers, said during a call with analysts on Thursday to discuss the January-March quarter earnings. âSo, we don’t see any risk for the terrestrial networks in the…
Yet, the question experts are asking is whether it will at all ring a bell with rural folk in remote areas, which are its target audience, and that too at a price way higher than current wireless services. Even so, some experts are of the view that the sheer visibility of brand Starlink and its…
One of the most famous quips about India that has long held good is British economist Joan Robinsonâs âWhatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.” A telling example is the contrast between our high position in the worldâs GDP league table, where we rank third in terms of purchasing power…
One day in 1950, Enrico Fermi went out for lunch with his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. No one recalls exactly how it happened, but the conversation turned to then-recent reports about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. All of a sudden, Fermi asked, âWhere is everybody?” This simple…
Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a sociological podcast. Most pop culture enthusiasts are familiar with the origins of the phrase â15 minutes of fameâ. Itâs derived from an Andy Warhol quote that went, âIn the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.â But lesser known is the fact that after the phrase took off,…
The internet provided not only the images, but also the resources for labelling them. Once search engines had delivered pictures of what they took to be dogs, cats, chairs or whatever, these images were inspected and annotated by humans recruited through Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service provided by Amazon which allows people to earn money…
