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I was surprised to read about Free Broadband for all by 2009. I have asked the authenticity of this release. The government has collected a huge Universal Service Obligation Fund [ A contribution by Private Telecom players to the Government to enable the latter to provide Telecom services in rural areas]Continue Reading

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State owned Telecom major, BSNL sees a big opportunity in offering VPN [Virtual Private Network] services. What is VPN ? It lets your company create a own secured network using public communications infrastructure to let employees work from remote locations. Read more here. Effective May-1st, BSNL will offer VPN services –Continue Reading

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TRAI has released the latest figures on Internet and Broadband subscribers in India. At the end of December 2006 their were 2.05 Million Broadband subscribers. Last audit in August 2006 pegged the Broadband subscribers at 1.7 Million. In all India has 8.5 Million internet subscribers. BSNL is the largest ISP withContinue Reading

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I am wondering what makes the Government officials lazy and copy cats when they have virtually unlimited resources at their disposable to be creative. Few years ago, it was BSNL with its punchline “Connecting India” directly copied from Nokia’s – “Connecting People”. Nokia wants to do business in India and is probably aware of theContinue Reading

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Every city is planning / deploying an ambitious Wi-Fix / WiMax project. Their was limited Wireless connectivity during BangaloreIT.In. However, this time, Bangalore has taken the lead yet again by going for a soft launch next week which will be extended further. M N Vidyashankar, IT Secretary, Government of Karnataka, saidContinue Reading

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Exclusive: BSNL, CMD will launch IPTV in few hours from now for Puneites. Pune is the city where BSNL tested its IPTV and will officially launch for consumers tomorrow. The Picture on your left is at the Trial Run of IPTV. Here is the information we at goBroadband have obtained forContinue Reading

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You are reading this first here – Security has been compromised at TRAI website. The website is hacked by “Crackers_Child”. I have alerted TRAI regarding the same. Here is a screenshot for you 🙂 Most Indian websites lack basic security and I am really glad that someone is teaching Indian WebContinue Reading

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Web 2.0 India – Innovations and Challenges will be held on Feb 22nd and 23rd at Bangalore. Here is the program schedule for the two day event. Ashish Gupta, MD of Helion Ventures is the keynote speaker. Arun Ramanujapuram, Directot at  Yahoo! R&D will speak on Social Web followed byContinue Reading

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With buoyant capital markets around the world and an ever lasting appetite for Indian equity, Anil Ambani is all set to cash in on the boom. Reliance Communications has planned several secondary offerings. Reliance Communications’ subsidiary, Flag Telecom, which is building the world’s largest next generation IP network maybe listed on the LondonContinue Reading