16^th Feb

After a tiring 3GSM fair, I’am on the way back to Paris/Bangalore and am currently in boarding gate to check for some unsecured networks to get latched on to ..

This was my first 3GSM and it turned out to be a very tiring affair with miles of walking down the different halls and the booths learning about the different mobile products while continuously trying to think of areas of selling.

I found the 3GSM to be very much a European affair and does not have the presence of many of the valley startups. There are different geography specific pavilions – French, Hungary, Italy, Catalona( Spain), Singapore..I’am slightly surprised why India did not have a pavilion of its own with so many application companies cropping up..The few Indian companies I saw were Wipro, Subex-Azure, Sasken, Aricent, Tata-Elxsi.

A small poem that I could pen on the 3GSM show ...

Aching Heels and Tiring Shoulders,

Busy Mind with probing thoughts,

Walking across the crazy halls,

Finding a maze of products,

Roams a person whom I know.

Selling a story, not so bad

tough to digest , hard to fathom

a popular story – “the world is flat”

the penny you spend, the penny you gain

the service you buy, the product you sell

makes it all – a fair gain and a good plan

Roams a person…

Trading cards..not the playing cards

These are the “Business” cards

Reading minds, Taking Notes – the paper notes

Selling a story not so bad.

End of the show, a crazy show

The aching heel and the tiring mind

Relief they get – for a day

Since tomorrow is a “new day”