Broadband in India
At the international WiMax conference in Bangkok, Buzz Broadband CEO, Garth Freeman called the WiMax technology as a disaster that failed miserably and closed the networks. Mr. Freeman said, In other parts of the world, citywide Wi-Fi is losing steam, WiMAX may not work. The technology is mired in opportunisticContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel no doubt has good wireless service and better customer care, however, they have miserably failed to realize and embrace the power of Web. Their online bill pay is down for the past two days, at least whenever I have tried [customer care claims working intermittently]. Finally, after theContinue Reading
The battle for Telecom supremacy between Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications has entered a new phase with Reliance Communications [Rcom] lowering entry level mobile service lifetime tariffs to as low as Rs 199, while Bharti Airtel is charging Reliance Communications 10-12 times higher for interim undersea international bandwidth. Rcom loweredContinue Reading
In a conference call concluded just minutes ago, Reliance Communications [RCom] Chairman, Anil Ambani said that by March-08 all CAPEX investments on the CDMA front would be done. Mr. Ambani hopes to end the year FY08 with a CAPEX of $5.2 bn and has a guidance of $6 bn CAPEXContinue Reading
Just yesterday TRAI released and justified that 256 Kbps is not a bad speed at all. Today they have recommended ways to boost the growth of broadband penetration in India. Some of the key recommendations are as follows, [My Comments appear in Italics] BSNL / MTNL to appoint franchisees. TotalContinue Reading
Facing criticism from us and other media, TRAI went ahead and released a paper to justify that 256 Kbps is an acceptable speed to define broadband in India 🙂 According to the US FCC, internet speed greater than 200 Kbps is considered as broadband 🙂 Australia, Finland, Italy and SpainContinue Reading
Reliance maybe the first to launch WiMax Broadband for consumers in Bangalore, but had some issues and coverage was limited. Tata Communications [erstwhile VSNL] has launched “Limited Edition Special Offer” Indicom Wimax Broadband in Bangalore. [Yes that’s right, the official launch and branding are still in pipeline]. Tata Communications WiMaxContinue Reading
State owned Telco operating in the lucrative circles of Mumbai and Delhi has very poor broadband and internet strategies. Officials simply don’t seem to understand the demand for broadband in these two metros. It took nearly 4 years for them to realize the potential of broadband and they say theyContinue Reading
eBay India is booking ads for its website. You can place an ad on home / categories / search results page. This is not eBay’s Adcontext nor contextual nor behavioral advertising, but the old model of booking display ads. The site boasts of 2.5 million unique users and 30 millionContinue Reading
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