Outsourcing ATM Maintenance - Next big business
This is one of my speculations - things I feel will be the next thing coming. Of late all of the cell phone service providers have been hiving off the the setting up and management of the cell phone towers into separate business and some of them are even selling them off to third party tower management. What I think ultimately will happen is that the tower companies will put up the towers and manage them and they will lease out space on the towers to cell phone service providers to put their equipment on them. This has a a lot of benefits - The same tower can be used by multiple cell phone vendors thus sharing the cost of ownership - Takes away the management of towers away from cell phone service providers thus helping them to concentrate on their core business - Ensures someone is looking after setting up new towers and also managing them thus giving better performance. On a similar note there has been quite a bit of news lately about RBI wanting banks to allow customers to use an