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Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by _wldu »

kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty. Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels. I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopp…

This sounds awesome. Good, affordable connectivity seems to be a basic human right. I wish it was this way everywhere. I'm in the US and can only get 1.5Mbit DSL, for which I pay 90 US dollars a month (with a basic home phone line). That's the only Internet I can get. East Coast USA.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by markdown »

cageface wrote: post #10
kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty. Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels. I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopp…

Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.

NO!

Letting yourself go just because you have access to bigger clothes isn't healthy.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by cageface »

markdown wrote: post #13
cageface wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.

NO! Letting yourself go just because you have access to bigger clothes isn't healthy.

Revise, not throw out entirely.

Optimization always adds complexity. Don't do it more than necessary.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by kumarvvr »

cageface wrote: post #10
kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty. Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels. I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopp…

Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.

While speeds are good and connectivity is cheap, the caveat is availability.

Not all areas have good coverage.

And also, lower page sizes save energy and reduce carbon emissions.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by op03 »

shripadk wrote: post #6
sharadov wrote: post #2

Speech detection is just amazing when you think about illiterate folk, it's a game changer for them. Jio's genius was offering free data plans for a year, getting folks hooked. But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing.

> But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing. It has now reduced to 4 cents per GB for Jio Fiber. I'm sure local ISPs have reduced prices even more just to compete with Jio (in some places you can get 3.3TB for 10$)

At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow or customer issues cause obviously the budget for all that is not required because how can it even exist?

It's following the now classic Facebook model of pointing at scale achieved and outsourcing all the issues that scale produces to someone else namely govts, parents, teachers, the healthcare system, the police etc etc and then blaming all of those idiots for not being hip enough to handle it.

After all the networking are empowering women at 4c/GB.

We are nearing 20 years of this false narrative of the magic of "free" scale/magic companies with 10k employees handling a billion customers.

Given all the issues that have accumulated, keep track of how many more years its going to take for the chimp brain to figure out it was never possible.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by C19is20 »

markdown wrote: post #13
cageface wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.

NO! Letting yourself go just because you have access to bigger clothes isn't healthy.

YES! In that, I fully agree.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by jamil7 »

cageface wrote: post #10
kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty. Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels. I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopp…

Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.

As if web developers need a reason to make their websites slower.

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by alkonaut »

op03 wrote: post #16
shripadk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But the fact that it only costs 9 cents a GB is amazing. It has now reduced to 4 cents per GB for Jio Fiber. I'm sure local ISPs have reduced prices even more just to compete with Jio (in some places you can get 3.3TB for 10$)

At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow or customer issues cause obviously the budget for all that is not required because how can it even exist? It's following the now classic Facebook model of pointing at scale achieved and outsourcing all the issues that scale produces to someone else namely govts, parents, teachers, the healthcare system, the police etc etc and then blaming a…

> At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow

What’s the connection between weather and fiber?

Re: In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

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Post by pythonbase »

kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty. Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels. I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopp…

That's really awesome. I am next door and providers here boas of having lowest broadband fares in the region.
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