Another telephone idea
Idea #6 - Another telephone idea
I believe there are two types of calls :
Emergency calls, and
Mokkai calls.
I still wonder why our telephone companies cannot differentiate the two entirely different needs of the users and service them accordingly.
I hear someone ask why use telephone for mokkai and occupy network bandwidth?
In a city like chennai, meeting each and every friend often is next to impossible. We rely on the mobile/landline to stay in touch with our friends, parents and sometimes even spouse(s).
I dont mind paying for the emergency, important calls that I make.
But for the mokkai, I should have a choice to either pay from my pocket (not recommended) or endure some targetted ads and those in turn will pay for my calls (highly recommended).
So, before i dial a number for mokkai session, if i press *420, I should be able to listen to ads and those ads will pay me for the next 10 minutes of outgoing call. The less noise and more realistic it is, the better it works.
Also, if i do get an incoming call from a subscriber who chooses to pay for the call, that should take precedence over my mokkai session by default. This means the important calls always goes through and we dont get to hear, “The subscriber is busy” message.
The telephone companies will have all the details of at least their post paid subscribers anyway.
They can use technology to funnel ads which are likely to have maximum impact and relevance. The more contextual, the better too (I dont have anything to do with ‘Pothys’ Aadi thallubadi’ offer usually)
Benefits,
1. This opens up new revenue streams for the telephone companies.
2. The user (and sometimes the user’s boy friend) will have lower monthly phone bills and consequently lower BP.
Last heard Google’s GPhone project has similiar ideas but from whatever i’ve read, it looks like Google is either creating or buying real estate for their text ads. A phone is a phone. And I do not see it working if google is restricting itself to text ads.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Karthi…enanga idhu..0+0 ellam kekudhu
too much paa !
oru chinna request…indha idea blog idea va oru pakkam continue pannunga..unga regular posts kooda oru pakkam podunga.
bore adikudhu
September 9th, 2007 at 9:14 am
10 mins of advts to make a 10 min free call?…at this rate will our boys and galz have time for anything else/Drat ur maths test…:-?
September 9th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Nice post Prabhu. Nice ideas….
September 12th, 2007 at 1:23 am
sooper idea..talking of boyfriend, my now-husband-then-boyfriend tells me that he would have spent atleast 10K on me.
poor fellow!
ennappa comment la maths test ellaam vekkareenga?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
This comment is not relevant to this post! But as u r a good critic too, I wud want u to watch “Chak De India” movie and write abt it if u liked it.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:04 am
PK kalakareenga. Idea mannan ayiteenga… Namba TV channels kku yellam oru nalla idea kuduthu yeppadi nalla programnu sollunga… Especially how to take good serials and end up those that have been running for ages.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Hi PK,
Nice Post! Oru Idea Depot-va ungakitta vechukittu innum captialize pannama irukeengalae. Go to the US with all these ideas, find some venture capitalist and then bring up your own start up and grow that into a global giant.
he he he, this is what most do in the US and many parts of the world. Nice post!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
how about this?
Currently, if you are aware, people from the US call their relatives free thanks to Vonage. For example, my father in law @ NGNLR, my mom at PGL all have a Vonage phone. I have Vonage @ USA for all my needs. And I pay $30 for each of these lines. That is $90 total. But what that saves me is over $150 in calls that otherwise would cost to make those calls to my folks.
The beauty of Vonage is — you take the phone with you. So you get a number in north carolina, but next month you have to be in denmark for 1 month, you take the phone with you, and plug it into a broadband network there in denmark, the phone would work. And people calling you from US wont pay a dime because technically they are making a US - US phone call.
So imagine, if we get a Vonage for every indian in India. Then what you get for $30 is
1) if you want to speak to alwarpet “ambattan”, you can call from your vonage to his vonage.
2) if you want to speak to boston “bonda” you can call from your vonage to boston vonage.
3) and so on…
so for $30 the whole world can speak all the time……howz that?
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Ganesh..
IP phone idea neraya kadhalargalai serthu vecha punniyaam kudukum nu nenaikiren..
very sensible idea but i think its not yet legal in india. i am not sure
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
R prabhu
nandri
balaji sir,
nandri
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 pm
monu
i can understand lakshmi’s pain. and lakshmi’s pain is airtel’s gain
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:44 pm
kalai
danks ba
ratna
nandri hai
sree,
i take this as a feedback