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| Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| MTNL Triband Tariffs Revised Downwards |
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 MTNL has an Independence Day Gift to Triband Broadband users [effective Sept-1st] / aspirants with effective from 15th August.
Lets first take a look at our recommended Unlimited Data Transfer Triband Broadband Plans, [Plan Name, Download / Upload Speeds, Rs / Month excluding Taxes]
TriB UL data-256 / 256 Kbps Rs 599
TriB UL data -512 / 512 Kbps Rs 1,299
Silver UL data - 1Mbps / 512 Kbps Rs 3,999
Gold UL data - 2Mbps / 768 Kbps Rs 8,999
Compare this to Airtel Broadband's Unlimited plans in Delhi,
256 Kbps - Rs 799
512 Kbps - Rs 1,499
1 Mbps - Rs 2,222
I am not quite sure who else is the leading service provider in Delhi / NCR [Tata Indicom Broadband story is here for you to read] who can provide unmatched good quality broadband services. You can Download entire Triband Broadband plan details here. [DOC]
Will MTNL Mumbai Revise Tariffs as well ?Labels: MTNL-Triband-Delhi |
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| Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| Bharti Airtel's Website Down with Internal Server Error |
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India's largest Mobile Service Provider as well as the largest private Internet Service provider is unable to get the facts right about hosting its website [Airtel.in]. We have noticed errors in the past and today, when the President of the company is announcing its results and addressing a Conference Call, the site is down. Check out the screen-shot below.
 In 2006, the Developers of the site had exposed source code of several sections to casual web surfers. What about folks who want to pay their Airtel bills online ? I just don't see the login interface anywhere.
Update on 25th @ 1:30 AM: The site is up and running but one can only see the Q1FY09 results. Information about Mobile and Telecom services from the site are missing. We had thought Bharti Airtel was one of the best companies, guess we are a little wrong about it :-) |
| Published on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 1:14 AM |
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| Saturday, July 19, 2008 |
| BSNL Bangalore Targets 300K Landline Connections |
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At a time when Landline connections across the country is seeing a dip, BSNL in Bangalore is bucking the trend. BSNL actually saw an increase of 5% in the number of land line connections provided last year - Most of the demand is due to broadband services. BSNl plans to add 300K Land line connections this year and achieve a growth of 8% over last year. This is despite 3,000 connections being surrendered every month.
Shubhendu Ghosh, GM BSNL Bangalore said,
Most customers still want a landline and that si where they prefer BSNL over other operators. While there is a good percentage still surrendering their phones, the necessity of having a landline to enable broadband on it is spurring the demand. With the construction boom in Bengaluru, BSNL has tied up with various developers to offer broadband ready homes to Geeky Bangaloreans. BSNL lays an Optical cable until the Apartment complex which terminate into a mini exchange. From this mini exchange to your Apartment a copper cable is drawn which makes your home plug-n-play :-)
BSNL's IPTV in Bangalore has few takers due to the low number of channels [60] the company is offering. Do let us know about your experience with BSNL in getting a broadband connection as we couldn't get one 12-15 months ago. |
| Published on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:28 AM |
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| Saturday, July 05, 2008 |
| High WiMax Spectrum Price - Why should ISPs Care ? |
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It is reliably learnt from sources in the DoT that reserve price for 3G Spectrum auction is likely to be around Rs 2,260 crore for a PAN India license. Additionally, DoT is tying WiMax spectrum auction to 3G and has set a reserve price of fourth of the 3G reserve price i.e ~Rs 550 crore.
Independent ISPs complain that they cannot compete with deep pocket telcos in the auction who have multiple streams of revenue. These ISPs have written to the TRAI seeking intervention and asking it to recommend reserved slots for a separate auction thus preserving competition in the market.
However, going by the Government's moves of not opening BSNL's last mile network to other operators nor extending concessions for laying wired telephone network makes us skeptical on Government's policy on broadband. Recall it has already made to shut some ISPs which was not really necessary.
Hey! small and independent ISPs, don't be so desperate about Wimax Broadband Spectrum as Wimax 1.0 is a Box Office flop in India. |
| Published on Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 6:20 AM |
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| Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| Bharti Airtel seeks incentives for Landline Revival |
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 With the penetration of Wireless services in India, it seems that Landlines have taken a backseat and in some states witnessing negative growth which is not too good for the health of an Integrated Telco like Bharti Airtel.
We all know that Tata Communications and Reliance Communications Wireless Broadband has been a failure in India. Fiexedline phones running over a copper network, bring super fast DSL Internet to your doorstep which is the need of the hour. Facing resistance from BSNL to open its copper cable network, Bharti Airtel CEO has now asked the Government for tax concessions. Mr. Mittal said,
The plain old telephone service, better known as fixed line telephony, has become the bedrock for broadband telephony and serves as the basic and vital platform for any knowledge society. Almost all the internet and broadband applications for the private sector, government and society-government interface are principally run on fixed line telephony across the world.Fixed line in itself needs support, and therefore, it should be entitled to access USO funds rather than contributing to the USO fund itself.
The fixed line segment pays licence fee of 6-10 per cent and a service tax of 12.36 per cent, which the government can certainly "take away". It also contributes 5 per cent towards the Universal Service Obligation [USO] Fund.
Hopefully the Government will wake up and provide some incentives for higher broadband penetration soon. |
| Published on Monday, June 09, 2008 at 10:31 PM |
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| Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| Airtel's Innovation - On Demand Speed. Pay as You go Surfing |
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 Bharti Airtel has informed about the launch of value added broadband service - Broadband Speed on Demand to its existing customers based on the Pay as you go model. This enables a customer to upgraded to higher speed for limited amount of time.
To upgrade, all you need to do is log-on to Airtel.in website and request for more bandwidth. After you are done with your really super fast broadband surfing, you can log-on to the site again and switch back to your regular broadband speed. This facility is available only for customers in select cities.
Tariffs for Broadband on Demand [Subject to Change]
256 Kbps Rs 25 / hr
512 Kbps Rs 40 / hr
1 Mbps Rs 75 / hr
2 Mbps - Rs 120 /hr
Unfortunately it is unavailable in our city, Bangalore. Check out of if it is available in your city and if you can provide some feedback on this service, we will highly appreciate it as it will help other readers as well. |
| Published on Monday, June 02, 2008 at 7:11 AM |
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| Saturday, May 31, 2008 |
| Public Grievance Portal - Government of India |
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 Can you imagine this is happening in INDIA? Yes!!! The Government seems to be taking e-Governance very seriously. They have launched a new Portal - Online Public Grievance Lodging and Monitoring System.
The govt. wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc.
Testimony of Online Public Grievance Lodging and Monitoring System:
A reader of our blog lives in Faridabad. Couple of months back, the Faridabad Municipal Corporation laid new roads in his area and the residents were very happy about it. But 2 weeks later, BSNL dug up the newly laid roads to install new cables which annoyed all the residents including this guy. But it was only this guy! Who used the above listed grievance forum to highlight his concern. And to his surprise, BSNL and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad were served a show cause notice and the guy received a copy of the notice in one week. Government has asked the MC and BSNL about the goof up as it's clear that both the government departments were not in sync at all. So use this grievance forum and educate others who don't know about this facility. This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking about the ' System ' in India. Invite your friends to contribute for many such happenings. Kindly be patient as these systems will take time to stabilize and don't lose your heart if complaint goes unattended for few days as we know - It only happens in India ;-)
Related such Portals for Credit Card: Consumer Online Resource and Empowerment Center. |
| Published on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8:32 AM |
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| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
| Spectranet for Sale |
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 Spectranet - an ISP in Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore with other Internet related activities such as Data Centers, Managed Bandwidth etc is planning to exit the business and put Spectranet on the block for sale.
Spectranet was one of the early ISPs that offered unlimited data transfer plans at 256 Kbps. However, with the parent company Punj Lloyd achieving new milestones in Construction and Infrastructure business, Spectranet is a non-core business and hence Punj Lloyd wants to exit at the right time when Telecom valuations are touching the roof.
Since the scale of Spectranet operations is limited to 3 cities, the company may not be able to commend big premium. However, if it has good OFC network in all these 3 cities, it can still expect a decent premium as it will help existing players such as Bharti Airtel or Reliance Communications to scale their high EBITDA broadband business.
Frost and Sullivan projects the Indian Broadband Market to Rs 5,124 crore by 2012. |
| Published on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 4:07 AM |
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