Sometime during the year 2000 or so , John Chambers of Cisco during his visit to India was asked by a media correspondent for his advice for India to improve the telephone density and usage in India . During this time , there was already a telecom revolution in India thanks to Sam Pitroda who introduced and democratized the STD and ISD facility with public kiosks all over at very cheap rates. The cell phones were just introduced in India around 1997 or so. Mr John chambers suggested that instead of increasing the penetration and usage rates of the land lines , India could go for cellular phones to leapfrog the technology envelope .
Even John Chambers in his wildest of dreams could have visualized the scene in India today where the country already has more than 800 million cell phone connections and adding more than 15 million every month ! . It is predicted by experts that by 2012 , out of 6 billion cell phones globally , India and China will have a share of over 2 billion and India likely to overtake China by then .
A truly amazing result from a simple change in paradigm in phone usage and technology !
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