Om Malik is in India doing some work and has blogged about the burgeoning Indian cellphone market. Apparently, it’s set to explode, with over 12 million new subscribers in just the last three months, and companies like Samsung, LG, and BenQ pushing new phones into the markets with great success.
He also talks about using Vonage via his Powerbook to make a call back to the US. Even including the charges for his “almost 3G” data connection, the 20 minute call still cost only around 30 cents, compared to almost twice that per minute over traditional long distance. He envisions “the end of distance” in the very near future, and it isn’t hard to see that he’s right.
