Sam Pitroda In Conversation with Osama Manzar
Editorial
December 2019, volume 43, No 12

Sam Pitroda In Conversation with Osama Manzar

‘For the very first time in human history, a Great Grand Event happened––the grand event of ‘Being interconnected’ with each other. Due to this event today, we are all connected, the way we were never connected before. For all of us it is the biggest event in the history of the human being––and we are all interconnected with each other because of this transformation in the world which is—DIGITAL SHIFT.’

It all didn’t happen in one go, it happened slowly and it took years and years.

The story of connectivity in the era of Telecom initially revolved around telephones and it took almost 115 years for us to reach a billion phones.

Earlier, we were connected by old telephones but at a very high cost and then came the era of mobile telephony that reduced the cost. This resulted in a rapid increase in the number of phones in millions of users proving, ‘Affordability, scalability, and sustainability go hand in hand.  As, if it is not affordable, it is not scalable; if it is not scalable, it is not sustainable.’

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