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These are the changing times. For sure. This quarter has seen some record profits being posted by the telecom companies. How much of it is financial jugglery? I wouldn’t know. It is hard to believe the...
View ArticleBroadband in India:Suppose if it is free?
Sounds to good to be true? I have a feeling that if a company could offer free broadband access to spur on the sales for it’s voice calls, it would go against the conventional line of thinking. For...
View ArticleThe year that was
I hate to end on a pessimistic note. The year 2006 was in many ways a sad reflection on the telecom trends. We haven’t been promised the Mbps speeds; Reliance isn’t scaling up; Airtel is becoming...
View ArticleNet Neutrality: Another take; Google effect
I had written about the issue long time (here and here) back. It is important to revisit the same in the light of the new developments taking place. Google is planning to set up a huge server farm in...
View ArticleReliance:Enigma?
There is a larger than life creation of Dhirubhai Ambani and Reliance seems to be creating this image of a person who created “magic” out of no where. In the pure play capitalistic markets, this larger...
View ArticleBSNL: IPTV launch
BSNL launches IPTV in Pune and subsequently to be extended to the whole nation. If this is frigging broadband year, I am still stuck up in the 256k bracket. The details are still patchy but...
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BSNL Broadband: IPTV and beyond
BSNL launched it’s IPTV service recently. There has been a usual media excitement and “buzz” about IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) making it’s debut in India much after it was planned. For the...
View ArticleReliance: On growth trajectory?
Reliance is associated with also ran telecom companies; I still have to see them recover from the massive negative publicity generated because of their handset schemes and poor billing resolution...
View ArticleMadness
This announcement was something similar to a bamboo stick loaded up with chillies and thrust on their sorry orifices. The department of telecom seems to have woken up to the menace of the telecom...
View ArticleTRAI: Another salvo
Wow. It’s called as kicking in between the telecom companies crotch. It would hurt them for sure. TRAI has called for universal implementation of IPTV by the cable service providers. This means that...
View ArticleAirtel Broadband: 2 Mbps boost!
Much like the UFO sightings it had generated a wave of excitement. Most of the Airtel users testifiied getting a temporary 2 Mbps boost! And what a f***ing boost it was! My torrents coursed like crazy,...
View ArticleAirtel Broadband: Suckers
Airtel recently reduced the price for 512kbps; I got a call from an excited “executive” who “informed” about the price reduction. In real terms, this doesn’t amount to much since the taxes would anyway...
View ArticleAirtel Broadband: a pleasant surprise!
After writing in a scathing post on Airtel, someone up there seems to have read the previous post. I got a call asking me to upgrade my plan to 512kbps for a slightly more amount than I am paying at...
View ArticleIPTV India: Against DTH?
Viewers are spoilt for choice. DTH is a credible option and at the start of the day, I had no frigging clue to the pent up demand for the same. The Direct To Home players like Tatas and Zee have spent...
View ArticleA long hiatus!
I must admit that this blog is suffering from the neglect over the past few weeks. A lot is happening in the telecom sector; things are rapidly changing and shifting. The policy for 3G and IPTV has...
View ArticleAirtel DTH: Yawn
Another boring launch. Airtel wants to “differentiate” itself from the other providers by having a different format of watching channels. Thats about it. You can follow the news as it happens on the...
View ArticleWhere is the next wave of growth?
VoiP has not happened here in India. Plain vanilla voice calls rule the roost and contribute to the “bottom line”. VoIP would usher in cheaper and better voice calls as compared to the POTS (Plain Old...
View ArticleFooling with site stats
I was looking for something but found something really interesting. Google is the top referrer here to this blog. People land up here looking for (sic): calcutta telephones broadband change of mtnl...
View ArticleBSNL Broadband: RTI application submitted
I decided to stick around after lunch time today to file in the application. It is a simple process. One has to purchase a postal order (from any post office in the country), attach it to the...
View ArticleNew Telecom Policy 2011:Draft Proposals and random oddities
The Government of India cannot be trusted to do anything good for it’s citizenry. Primarily, it is in the process of making itself unaccountable for public loot. So whenever draft proposals come in,...
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