{"id":868,"date":"2005-01-02T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T02:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=868"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:29","slug":"mobile_mother_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/02\/mobile_mother_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Mother India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the rest of you, I&#8217;ve been swamped with holiday and family obligations these past few weeks.  My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/public\/suitablegirl\">Bloglines feeds<\/a> have piled up and it&#8217;s going to take me forever to catch up on what some of you (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/supplesomething\/\">supplesomething<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/brimful.blogspot.com\/\">Brimful<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/minerva26.blogspot.com\/\">J<\/a> &#8230;) have written.  I devoted my surf-time today to reading the 200 (!) posts that had accumulated from Om Malik on Broadband.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigaom.com\/about\/\">Om<\/a>&#8211;whom I sweat ridiculously&#8211;had an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2004\/11\/09\/truly-a-cell-phone-nation\/\">tidbit<\/a> over at GigaOm; it stated that India is &#8220;Truly, a Cell Phone Nation&#8221;.  He goes on to state:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>There are 44 million cell phone users in India, versus 43 million land lines. India\u00c2\u2019s mobile market will grow 40% every year through 2007. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why that statistic captured my attention so completely, but it did.  More cell phone users!  I guess it makes sense now that I think about it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>This article has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,11330098%255E15306,00.html\">more<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>India has also emerged as the second-largest market after China for mobile handsets. Mobile phone makers such as Nokia , Siemens, Sony Ericsson , South Korea &#8216;s LG and Philips are racing to offer newer models to keep pace with demand.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I think one of my favourite things about India is the juxtaposition of future with past, forward with backwards.  I&#8217;m ridiculously excited (especially after reading posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000865.html\">like this<\/a>) to see what develops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the rest of you, I&#8217;ve been swamped with holiday and family obligations these past few weeks. My Bloglines feeds have piled up and it&#8217;s going to take me forever to catch up on what some of you (supplesomething, Brimful, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/02\/mobile_mother_i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}