Microsoft’s Ken Pawlak on HSPA or Mobile Broadband Laptops Part-1
By kamla bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2007Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, Video
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How do you make the GSM network relevant to millions of PC users around the world? Simple. Plug in a mobile broadband or High Speed Internet Access (HSPA) chip into the laptop and you are good to surf the Internet. What is the target market for these mobile broadband PCs? They are millions of people in the middle and the base of the economic pyramid around the world. Then, there is also the fact that over 80-85 percent of mobile phones around the world use GSM standard.
I caught up with Ken Pawlak, Director, Mobile Operator PCs, Unlimited Potential Group of Microsoft at the GSMA Asia Mobile Congress in Macau.
In Part-1 of the interview Ken talks about mobile broadband PCs and laptops and shares the market research findings for these PCs. Don’t go out looking for these PCs or laptops since they will be out sometime early next year.
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
