Why did Iphone partner with Aircel in India?

Surprised to see a brand like Iphone tying up with a third grade brand like Aircel in India. Iphone is bound to lose a lot because of this blunder it committed in India. While it choose wisely in having alliance with Airtel, Vodafone or Tata Docomo could have been a better bet than Aircel.

Aircel is the brand of masses in which ever market it is leading and recently, it is found that it is a scam ridden company which bribed Mr Maran to get the license dead cheaply from its erstwhile owner. Ironically, Aircel has the habit of dumping its distributors and dealers in its newer markets where it is struggling for survival and finding it real tough to have partners to sell Start Up Kits (SUK) or new connections. One would not be surprised to find a recharge outlet miles away or limited to the bigger outlets who sell more mobile connections. With such poor network of retailers, how will it be able to sell big numbers?

Aircel, though the leader in Chennai and Rest of Tamilnadu circles (as of now, which is going to lose its sheen sooner than later) has very less ARPU and Gross revenues when compared to other operators. This is where Iphone will lose its value. Will it sell the phone to some one who uses a phone to make a missed call expecting the other side to call back? Or to some one who looks for Chinese handsets or Micromax?

Iphone will very soon realise the mistake and hopefully not repeat the mistake elsewhere...  but it will be sorry for losing out on a rapidly growing Indian market. Nonetheless, Iphone as such will not lose its customers. People using other networks will buy it in the open market and still be its customers.

Egoistic politicians kill India's future

Egoistic attitide in political leaders in India is killing its prospects of becoming a much civilised country quickly. The very politicians who intended to have a bill including the Prime Minister in Lokpal bill are now opposed to it as they want to show their might. They want to prove that the members of parliament are above all and are some judges and licensed to kill the constitution.

These foolish and mostly uneducated goons are not aware that Anna Hazare is not a hero by himself but made one by the frustrated citizens of India. Any one with good image who tried to speak out against corruption would have become a hero during this period of scams rocking the country. It so happened that he came forward to fight against it. Even the Government or the intelligence or the media was aware that Anna Hazare would get such over whelming response. Had the Government had a slightest clue, it would have used its muscle to book some non-bailable case against Anna Hazare and locked him up even before he attempted to fight against corruption. Now that he was made an icon by the people of India, the Government is finding it tough to book a false case against him or do any kind of mud slinging business.

The intelligence department might have burnt its mid night oil by now to find if he committed a slightest mistake in life and cook a story around it and malign the image of Anna Hazare. Unfortunately, he did not give it a chance. They still tried to malign the image of the civic representatives team members but the people were in no mood to listen to them and it bounced back so they were forced to stop the mud slinging business.

These fools are not understanding that these very people's children might be the victims of the mistakes they are committing today. Some day, their kids who are future politicians, would walk in their foot steps and loot the Government's money and abuse the power and the people who will lose their patience would definitely make a much more stringent and undemocratic and more of a dictatorial Lokpal bill and give captive punishment to the politicians and bureaucrats who are corrupt. They will then feel sorry for the fate of their children when they both meet in hell.