Bandwidth we can create, Oil we cant

India is finding it difficult to create oil supplies. Oil is used mainly for transport, energy and as a building block for chemical industry. In this post, we shall look at the what we can do to reduce the oil use for transport.

India finds it difficult to create oil reserves  but we can alternative for oil namely bandwidth.  The movement of people could be reduced by the efficient use of bandwidth.

We have another problem on our hands, namely Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd which has become a chronic loss making operation. Rail capacity is very inadequate and air travel is expensive.

CISCO has a product called Telepresence which essentially slices a meeting room into two parts which could be halfway around the globe form each other. They are then connected by a 15mpbs lline. While Telepresence is expensive, it can be made cheaper by reducing the user experience. Telepresence software has become open-source in 2010.

Combining these problems and ideas  together, we could use BSNL to  strategically to reduce our oil dependence. Here are some ideas for the same.

BSNL has large buildings housing exchanges in good areas. We should give it additional Floor space index (FSI) to build more virtual meeting rooms and try and reduce both domestic air travel and international air travel. We also have additional real estate built and having no demand. Many of these funded by banks and these loans are going bad.

We should create lakhs of Video-meeting rooms on BSNL premises and at surplus real estate sites and sell at a very low price and eliminate travel which can reduced (such as business travel). This way we could save many problems in one stroke.