There is so much of print media space being occupied with various satellite companies vying for the burgeoning data-hungry market in India knocking away at the doors of Sanchar Bhawan a tall building in the center of Delhi, and custodians of anything telecommunication. The tagline of all is fast speed broadband, without ever mentioning or defining fast broadband, that moving forward how it will gel with Aatamnirbharta (self-reliance).
These projects some three of them, and of course the ubiquitous, tried, and tested old horse of geosynchronous satellites, which barring latency for certain applications is ideally suited in terms of throughputs, capacity, and deployability. They are being bandied around as the savior of broadband internet connectivity; anytime and anywhere to watch Netflix inside, say Atal Tunnel in the hills, in the name of low latency that it offers.
What has low latency to do with Netflix, one might ask? This is quite akin to the Pepsi way of hyping their drink. PepsiCo had envisioned marketing Frito-Lay snacks alongside Pepsi-Cola soft drinks. In an interview with Forbes in 1968, PepsiCo CEO Donald Kendall summarized this by noting that “Potato chips make you thirsty; Pepsi satisfies thirst.” His plans of jointly promoting soft drink and snack products were thwarted later that year when the Federal Trade Commission ruled against it.
So is this a case of creating Netflix addiction to create demand?
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