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NEW DELHI: The world’s not quite forgotten that endearing image of the cyclist talking into a cellphone. India — the country where one waited patiently for years to get a fixed line phone had changed overnight with the entry of mobile phone services. Look ma, no wires and see what it did to telecommunications.

How about internet penetration? It’s still barely 5%, though the queues at cyber cafes and crashing hardware prices would have one wonder why that’s so? Broadband access is less than 0.1% and limited to cities and towns.

WiMax, defined as worldwide interoperability for microwave access by the WiMax Forum, that provides wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL, one would think, is what would create the Net revolution in India. One more endearing image of a cyclist with a notebook?