Comments on: Emerging Markets As Cutting Edge Tech Test Beds

By: Beautiful Minds

Beautiful Minds — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:32:22 +0000

Om..,
I tink the situation is gonna change.. It may come to the shores of arabian sea :D with underwater OFC cables, better connectiviy, etc.. India will be the hot tech destination of tommorrow. now all what we have to do is to count the cities in India, which are capable of an expansion, an expansion beyond the limits.!

By: Dimitrios

Dimitrios — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:08:06 +0000

Aparently this testing in smaller markets is a widespread phenomenon in Europe where the market is fragmented and risky due to wildly varying tastes and language barriers. Vodafone has typically tested many new services in Greece where the population is small and introduction was cheaper. Lots of those services have been quite succesful.

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By: Technology "leapfrogging" in developing markets. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:26:27 +0000

[...] Om Malik has this short item about rolling out tech in the developing world to test and learn before rolling it out in the higher-stakes markets of the more-highly-industrialized world. Emerging Markets As Cutting Edge Tech Test Beds [...]

By: Morgonens innovationsnyheter | Innovationsbloggen.se

Morgonens innovationsnyheter | Innovationsbloggen.se — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:21:26 +0000

[...] GigaOM skriver om hur teknologiföretag lanserar nya tekniker först i Asien som testmarknad innan de lanseras i resten av världen. En fördel med Asien att de inte har gammal “legacy teknik” som ligger som hinder för ny teknik. Läs hela artikeln här [...]