Saturday, May 3, 2008

Cellphone Cos Making Killing On IPL

The IPL has been such a boom to so many folks! I’m sure it’ll be enough to lift India’s GDP growth to 10%! :)Jokes apart, Cellphone companies are seeing up to 15% increase in their so-called Value Added Services. These are the 3-rupees SMS and the other services like score updates, wallpapers, ringtones and other assorted crap. All this stuff is apparently making the companies Rs 600 crores A MONTH!

What I can’t figure out is that why people are spending good money on these “VAS” things when they can get the exact same thing for free on the net? Or even on newspapers? Because they get it on their cell phones? But you can get GPRS on your phone and then use the web, and that’ll still be cheaper than the ridiculous prices the phone companies charge for these value added services.

Oh well, it seems there is a market for these kinds of things after all!