Reliance Jio’s Cheap Data Turned India’s Internet Dreams Into Reality
September 11th, 2021
Via Quartz, an article on how Reliance Jio’s cheap data turned India’s internet dreams into reality: In 2015, not long after India first got high-speed 4G internet, the cost of 1GB of mobile data in India was 225 rupees ($3). But just over five years later, the industry has witnessed a remarkable decline in pricing that helped truly […]
Read more »Why the Motorbike Delivery Driver is a Symbol of Our Times
May 14th, 2021
Courtesy of Emerging World, an interesting look at how motorbike riders serve as vital arteries of the global food delivery industry, especially in the emerging world: Jet-lagged from a long flight that landed in the middle of the night, I woke up the next morning to the familiar sound of motorbikes. I was in Tehran, […]
Read more »The Economics of the China-India-Sri Lanka Triangle
May 2nd, 2021
Via The Diplomat, a look at the economic dimension of Sri Lanka’s struggle to balance between China and India: Sri Lanka’s relationship with China has been a controversial discussion during the last decade, dominating both domestic and international political conversations. The strengthening relationship between the island nation and the emerging global power has been largely economic. […]
Read more »On Tap(i): Turkmenistan Seeks Path To Revive Key Gas Pipeline To India
April 26th, 2021
Via Upstream Online, a report on Turkmenistan’s recent agreements with Afghanistan to avoid potential attacks on pipeline builders after holding previous meeting with Taliban: Authorities in Turkmenistan are breathing new life into a gas export pipeline project that went cold last year as countries in the region battled the coronavirus pandemic. The TAPI project aims to […]
Read more »Jio’s Grand Plan To Dominate India’s 5G
February 20th, 2021
Via Asia Times, an article on Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries’ vision, tools and government support to shape India’s 5G future: “Data is not the new oil, it’s the new soil.” – Mukesh Ambani In January 2018, while addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi first expressed his ambition to make India […]
Read more »Huawei Digitally Connects Pakistan Beyond India’s Reach
February 15th, 2021
Via Asia Times, a report on how a new Silk Road fiber optic cable project eases Pakistan’s cybersecurity concerns with India but raises new ones with China: China is poised to lay the last stretch of a cross-border fiber optic cable in Pakistan, a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project designed in part to cut […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.