Fisher Friend, a BREW based application for empowering fishing communities is going to be pilot-tested in Tamil Nadu on the Tata Teleservices network by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). The application works on 3G CDMA handsets, and gives access to market-related information in Tamil. The Fisher Friend project, to be launched on August 7, intends to extend this facility to other coastal communities as well. [via release]
Qualcomm appears to be using this as an opportunity to demonstrate BREW apps for 3G, but I really can’t imagine that fisherfolk who mostly live hand-to-mouth will be able to afford 3G handsets, and subscribe to 3G services. SMS, maybe, but not 3G. For all the talk of what 3G will achieve for India (education, medicine consultation etc etc), one should bear in mind that India might be going for an auction of 3G spectrum, and this will drive up the cost of 3G services.
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