Ban Facebook, Google in India: Sunil Mittal's radical suggestion to counter H-1B visa restrictions

[desiboys]

As the US under President Donald Trump turns more protectionist, telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal asked if India should say no to Facebook and Google just because it has similar homegrown apps.

Not overly concerned about protectionism as his business is "rooted in the domestic market", Mittal highlighted that it is unfair that movement of Indian workers gets restricted, while foreign firms make huge profits in India.

"If you come to a situation where skilled workers which actually drive your economy back home are going to be denied (entry) or Indian companies are forced to pay a particular salary just to become uncompetitive in those countries, I think that becomes an affirmative action against the companies that want to do trade there," he said.

He was responding to a question on how he would react if Bharti Airtel was not allowed to operate in certain geographies.

Citing examples of tech firms like Google, Facebook and WhatsApp that have millions of users in India, Mittal questioned if these companies should be allowed to operate in India even as similar homegrown apps are already there in the country.

"You can't have (a situation) that on one hand and you have 200 million customers on Facebook, 150 million on WhatsApp, 100 million people on Google... Would we say we don't want FaceBook (and) Google to operate in India, we have homegrown apps," the Bharti Airtel Chairman said.

Mittal said India is a big market for technology companies given the huge consumer base.

Over the past few weeks, countries like the US, Singapore and Australia have taken steps to tighten their work visa norms. This could potentially impact the operating costs for Indian IT companies that send employees to work on client sites using visas.

[Bhai]

[desiboys]

mind ledu anukunta. american companies India lo block chesthe asian countries lo open chesukuntayi. philippines vallu mana kante english baga matladatharu 

[adavilo anna]

To promote his sons hike messenger.. Hike's founder is Kavin Bharti Mittal

[Bhai]

Just now, adavilo anna said:

To promote his sons hike messenger.. Hike's founder is Kavin Bharti Mittal

enti fb google ni kotteddamane 

[perugu_vada]

Google, fb already trump stmts ni oppose chesaru, trump chesina dhaniki valla ni ani em use ?

[adavilo anna]

19 minutes ago, Bhai said:

enti fb google ni kotteddamane 

Anukuntunadu mari vaadu... 

[kittaya]

1 hour ago, desiboys said:

As the US under President Donald Trump turns more protectionist, telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal asked if India should say no to Facebook and Google just because it has similar homegrown apps.

Not overly concerned about protectionism as his business is "rooted in the domestic market", Mittal highlighted that it is unfair that movement of Indian workers gets restricted, while foreign firms make huge profits in India.

"If you come to a situation where skilled workers which actually drive your economy back home are going to be denied (entry) or Indian companies are forced to pay a particular salary just to become uncompetitive in those countries, I think that becomes an affirmative action against the companies that want to do trade there," he said.

He was responding to a question on how he would react if Bharti Airtel was not allowed to operate in certain geographies.

Citing examples of tech firms like Google, Facebook and WhatsApp that have millions of users in India, Mittal questioned if these companies should be allowed to operate in India even as similar homegrown apps are already there in the country.

"You can't have (a situation) that on one hand and you have 200 million customers on Facebook, 150 million on WhatsApp, 100 million people on Google... Would we say we don't want FaceBook (and) Google to operate in India, we have homegrown apps," the Bharti Airtel Chairman said.

Mittal said India is a big market for technology companies given the huge consumer base.

Over the past few weeks, countries like the US, Singapore and Australia have taken steps to tighten their work visa norms. This could potentially impact the operating costs for Indian IT companies that send employees to work on client sites using visas.

pichodio chethilp ganta... H1B reforms valla good untadhio le voi.... mari antha bad anukoku.... 

loose ga unna reforms ni aela badithe ala vadesukoni... malli siggulekunda alane kavali anukovadam.....   inka ae basha lo aemantaro naku telidhu

[Hercules]

1 hour ago, Bhai said:

enti fb google ni kotteddamane 

fb is pilla pithri compared to google. google is not a company its a country

[adavilo anna]

33 minutes ago, kittaya said:

pichodio chethilp ganta... H1B reforms valla good untadhio le voi.... mari antha bad anukoku.... 

loose ga unna reforms ni aela badithe ala vadesukoni... malli siggulekunda alane kavali anukovadam.....   inka ae basha lo aemantaro naku telidhu

+1

[TampaChinnodu]

1 hour ago, adavilo anna said:

To promote his sons hike messenger.. Hike's founder is Kavin Bharti Mittal

evadu ina using aa hike ?

[areybokka]

2 minutes ago, TampaChinnodu said:

evadu ina using aa hike ?

unnaru... denikaina hurt ayi whatsapp uninstall cheskunna batch antha ee hike ye vaadutharu

[TampaChinnodu]

5 minutes ago, areybokka said:

unnaru... denikaina hurt ayi whatsapp uninstall cheskunna batch antha ee hike ye vaadutharu

He founded hike Messenger on 12 December 2012. hike received initial funding of $21 million from Bharti Softbank and $65 million from Tiger Global. Other Investors in hike include Adam D'Angelo, Ruchi Sanghvi and Matt Mullenweg. Within 3 years, hike has grown to become the largest Indian internet company by users - with a tally of 100 million users. By July 2014, it was the most downloaded application on both the India Apple app store and the Google Play store for Android devices.^[4][7][8]

A recent round of funding by Tencent and Foxconn has led to hike being valued at $1.4 Billion. hike became the fastest Indian startup, and the only free application among the lot to be valued at over $1 billion. A 2015 study by Ericsson Consumer Lab said that 44 percentage of the respondents in India used hike at least once in a month, compared to 98 percentage of the respondents for WhatsApp. hike users also exchange 40 billion messages a month and spend 120 minutes a week on the app. According to him, hike will start monetization in 2019 after having a comfortable critical mass on the product.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}

[princeofheaven]

3 hours ago, TampaChinnodu said:

He founded hike Messenger on 12 December 2012. hike received initial funding of $21 million from Bharti Softbank and $65 million from Tiger Global. Other Investors in hike include Adam D'Angelo, Ruchi Sanghvi and Matt Mullenweg. Within 3 years, hike has grown to become the largest Indian internet company by users - with a tally of 100 million users. By July 2014, it was the most downloaded application on both the India Apple app store and the Google Play store for Android devices.^[4][7][8]

A recent round of funding by Tencent and Foxconn has led to hike being valued at $1.4 Billion. hike became the fastest Indian startup, and the only free application among the lot to be valued at over $1 billion. A 2015 study by Ericsson Consumer Lab said that 44 percentage of the respondents in India used hike at least once in a month, compared to 98 percentage of the respondents for WhatsApp. hike users also exchange 40 billion messages a month and spend 120 minutes a week on the app. According to him, hike will start monetization in 2019 after having a comfortable critical mass on the product.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}

india lo unnappudu naku hike lo jab offer ochindi delhi lo 14 laks ista annadu..

[Spartan]

FYi Sunil Mittal...FB and Google are agaoinst Trumps immigration policy..they are not kicking out H1 employees...