"No More Sony"

Dear Sony,

It is very unfortunate that after using your Product for 3 years, I understand some features are no more usable all of a sudden.

This is in reference to the Youtube application feature in Sony Bravia TV CX52, 42 inch.

We had bought this TV for its smart features and now some of the features (youtube) are no more available. How come Sony has stopped support for the application? I cannot afford to buy a new TV every 3 years, just because an application does not work.

But unfortunately in this case, as my family is totally glued to using these applications, I am forced to buy a new TV. 

Needless to say no more Sony. I am already evaluating new brands in the market which will enhance my TV viewing experience. 

I look forward to a reasonable reply for this dis-continuation and would sincerely request Sony to not woe customers with advanced features in their products which will not be usable after few years of usage.

Regards

Aliasgar N

+91 9820661151

("was" a brand follower of Sony but now not any more) 

My trip to Bangalore......contd

The next day i had a very important meeting for which i was accompanied by our R&D expert. We were travelling in our company vehicle and passed through some really good location in Bangalore, one of them being the Whitefield road. I was surprised by the way the place is being developed. It really made me feel why is Bangalore called the IT city.
You would only find IT/Software companies huge campuses on these roads. I got a chance to visit one of the upcoming IT Parks which was still under construction. It was a 2 basement 8 floors massive structure. I moved around the entire stretch of the building, floor to floor.
I got the oppurtunity to witness the making of a NOC. OMG excellent planning, huge length of CAT 5 cables/Patch cords running the entire floor, cooling systems, power systems and monitoring systems.
It was a mind blowing experience. I had worked at one of the NOC's of BSNL some time back but had never imagined would be able to see the making of the NOC. Was an exciting experience i say....
The next day again i had met one of the construction biggies of Banglore, what massive construction sites....mall, commercial, residency, playground all in one location. Wow!!!! Bangalore is coming up big time. But please some one fix up the degrading autorickshaw system. Otherwise it is a lovely city to make a living and to stay. Also, one more condition you must know Telugu or Kannada or Tamil. But i am sure in the coming years people in Bangalore will also speak the same language as the entire India speaks Hindi or English :-)

My trip to Bangalore....Day 1

As part of my first business visit thorugh my compnay i had been to Bangalore, the so called IT city. The city is beautiful, the roads are good but narrow leading to traffic jams but something i hate in Bangalore is people.
My journey to Bangalore started on the saturday at 7 pm in a Volvo 2x2 bus from Sion, Mumbai. (:-( Was unable to get flight tickets due to the sudden plan). Ok. the journey in the bus was 17 hours and i thought i would be drained till i reach my destination in Bangalore. But to my surprise it was a very comfortable ride, the bus was VOLVO and the ride was amazing. The Air conditioning was top class and with the added entertainment of the Television. I watched three latest realises of Bollywood, Runway (:-(), Luck (:-)) and Team - The force (:-(). Was a good time pass. The person next to me was busy in some erotic magazine.....
So as the night fell everyone fell to sleep only to get up in Hubli which came at around 5 30 in the morning. It stopped there for a while and later again picked up speed.
We reached the outskirts of Bangalore at aroung 12 30 and i was there at the busstop at 1 30 pm the exact time of arrival. Hats off to the punctuality of the Travel agency.
No sooner i reached Kalasipalayam, i was the victim of the rickshaw driver. Charging me a whopping 120 Rs. for a ride which hardly took 40 min. The irony here is that even though they have a meter they never use one, why? because it comsumes battery, how stupid......
Later i realized that if i would have taken an auto with a meter, i would have been charged Rs. 80/- nevertheless i learnt the lesson there. More about the trip in the next post....

Project Management and Marketing

I am handling the installation of a new solution that my company has imported from the foreign land. It is again related to the wireless coverage indoors. But the beauty of the system is that you can get wireless coverage on the same wires on which you are currently watching the TV.
Yes this soultion does not require the installation on antennas and RF cables.
The current cable netwrok can be used for the same purpose.

So after understanding the technology and acquiring the site i finally started the installation with my team of technicians and the RF Engineer. Among all the technicians Mr. Chandrakant is the most expereinced and the oldest person in the team. The solution was new, the equipment was new and still this expereinced persons thirst for understanding the system did not die. Comparing this attitude to the newly joined people, they hardly want to learn and they come to pass time.

While the system was being installed i was interacting with the people in whose premise the system was being installed. They were more excited than anyone else. Why??? Because now they will be able to make un interrupted calls from their offices.

Some of the problems i came across while installing the site were as follows:
1) Sourcing the material, the guys who had conducted the survey did not clearly mention everything in the BOM.
2) Getting the required permission to place the equipments in the room.
3) As the cables were being layed, i was constantly trying to understand the system. But finnaly i cracked the code.

Learning
Project Management skills: Managing a project required a lot of precise understanding of what is happening in the terms of the man power to be used, the resources required, and much more. You will always find some hurdles as you come to the completion of the project so be prepared with a plan B also.

This week i also met some top personalities in the construction industy. And after talking to them i realized why are they the CEO, MD, VP of their respective companies. More about my experiences in my nest post....bye for now...

First 4 weeks on the first job!!!!!

Wowwww one entire month has passsed by on my first job. And i am enjoying everybit of it. Everyday there is a new learning, new people to meet, new proposals, understanding of the solution and i am loving this novelty very much.

I am accompanied by my colleague who is equally enthusiaitic as me and we are giving some excellent preseantations to prospects and close to closing some deals. I am sure at this pace we will be able to achieve our ambitions very well. 6 days of the week is really worth a work. (Well when it comes to saturday you really start feeling the pinch of the weekend :-))

In the past week i had some very excellent meeting with some of the Vice Presidents of leading Construction companies. These meeting actually gave me an insight as to how the real corporate world thinks.

The meeting with the Isreal delegates was one of my great experiences. These people are very technically competent and sitting in isreal they know exactly how the indian telecom indsutry is working. This really amazed me a lot. These delegaetes meet some top technical people of Reliance and Vodafone and the discussion that they had was fantastic. I got to understand the technology and the way negotiatitions take place at this level.

Talking about my product......

Well i am selling a solution not a product. Selling a solution requires far more analysis and thinking rather than selling a stand alone product. A product may be sold based upon its specifications and the price and also the quality. But a solution requires a problem to be solved.

So whats the problem?

Lack of coverage inside buildings, garages, underground car parking, basements.

Solution: build a telecom network inside the building. Seems quite simple isnt it?

But the catch here is why would a building owner allow someone to break open his cieling and put up telecom network (splitters, antennas, cables).

Well yes he would because seamless wireless coverage inside the premises is becoming essential day by day. Employee is wirelessly connected to his workplace, visitors in the hotel want to have a good coverage in hotels. Guests would be frustrated if they are unable to make calls from thier cell phones in hotels. Shopppers now a days move around in malls not to buy items but to pass away time, but simultaneously stay connected to the world.

No body can stay without a cell phone.

Our solution does this for the wireless customers. We acquire properties, build the telecom infrastructure and give it to the operators. Then the operators place their BTS/Repeater and provide the netowrk inside the premises. But there has to be some incentive to the property owner (why will he give away his property). Hence the operators pay the building owners a rent.

So the mobile customer is happy, building owner is happy because he is getting a rent from multiple operators, the operator is happy because his ARPU's are increasing.

Thats the solution that i offer, if you are interested to know more, reply back.........in the meanwhile i will also keep you updated.

End of the week !!!!!!!!!!!

After the end to the era of 5 years of college.......here starts a new journey.......JOb

And today is the end of the first week at my job at Microqual Coverage Solutions.

So what did i do in my first week?
:-) got to know the people whom i am going to work with. The roles the play in the smooth functioning of the organization.
Some of the key members being my Boss, the CEO of the company, who is full of vision and enthusiasm and has huge expectations from me and infact anyone who is involved in part of the organization.

Other people being the Director of the company, again a young enthusiastic, full of life individual. Really like to work alongside this person.

So whats my job?
New Product, New Concept, New Market.............So start from the basics of Mr.Kotlers book (Marketing) and end to Ms.Jakki Bohrs book (Marketing of Hi Technololgy Products). :-) i am still trying to get out of my life at college. Seems difficult but will definately achieve it.

I started understanding the product(which i will disclose in my next post) the concept and started the market analysis of the same from the inputs received from my director. And i am steadily progressing to achieve my goals. In the mean while i have prepared the presentations, documents and literature required to market the product.

I am thoroughly happy and content the way the first week has passed. Loads of work, meeting new people, understanding the technology, working on docs, ppts. I think this is what i was looking for when i was in college.

CoLlEgE DaYs!!!!!

I write today with tears in my eyes and my heart full of sadness… the reason being, this post is about the final days in my college life.

This is the event of the razzies awards 2009 where memories of the past were reincarnated. The happy moments were thought of once again. The evening was dedicated to all the MBA(Tech)'s who had spend 5 years with each other. In this span of five years there were many things to talk about. People and their crushes. People and their relationships. People and their would have been relationships. People and going on relationships and much more. People and their obsession with clothes, food, books, clicking snaps and the list is endless.

Everyone was smiling and laughing but also feeling the pain of leaving the college life. Knowing the fact that these days are never to come back.

I don’t speak much in college. Not many people know me completely, but for the some who know they would probably remember me for nothing :-(. Or may be fir posting this on my blog.

I never imagined that I would make such good friends for whom I would feel sad while leaving them.

But what I would tell all my friends is this:
Kab milenge na jaane hum
Yaaro fir se kabhi
Laut kar fir na ayenge woo, masti bhari jindagi
Ohh dil yeah apna kahe ki aae dosto

I am really gona mis this place
I am gonna miss my college days………..

I am sorry I am not a writer nor a good poet so had to pick lines from one of my favorite song.

Thanks You once again for everything that i have seen, felt and experienced as an MBA Techie. These memories are never going to fade in my entire life.