If minister of state for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, is to be believed, India will be a fully wired country pretty soon. The minister says that the Rs.17,000 crore ($3.5 billion) in the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) will be utilised to connect 626,000 villages. He says that it would entail setting up 11,000 [...]
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Archive for the ‘Telecom’ CategoryThe 21st Century India Through Digital Content conference recently held in Delhi, with topic such as Digital Content in Business, Enterprise and Livelihoods should have been infested with journalists. It wasn’t. Except for a smattering of our ilk, there was not one from the power-list of Indian journalism. It really should be an area that should [...] Even the best news sites in India seem woefully “old” when it comes to understanding the needs of their users. It is not that our brethren in the US are well-versed in the art of communicating. Here’s a good story from NYT that has pointers to what’s on online: Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass [...] Here’s something that should bring cheer to a very few people in this country: BSNL has the highest minutes of mobile usage across 10 circles, <<Read on>> technorati tags:BSNL, Telecom After the war between proponents of GSM and CDMA technologies, there’s <<Read more>> technorati tags:Wi-Max, GSM, Telecom While it is nice to hear that BSNL “appointing a consultant to suggest ways to improve its business processes”, the solution obviously cannot be found in what the familiar suspect — “One of the concerns for BSNL is its huge employee base of over 2.5 lakh.” It would be better to highlight how consistently issues such [...] More than 50 per cent of the domestic long distance capacity available The Hindu Businessline has a report on the situation. technorati tags:telecom, bandwidth The number of Internet Service Provider (ISPs) in the country has decreased from 189 in March 2004 to 153 in March 2006 owing to the steady capturing of market share of ISPs by telecom companies. VoIP, according to Himanshu Dhomse, is one technology that’s helping ISPs fight back. The report by Dhomse in the Business Standard says [...] Rupesh Janve & Khomba Singh report in the Business Standard today that the DoT has asked Hutch, Airtel, Reliance, Idea, Tata and MTNL in Mumbai and Delhi and BSNL in three circles to to discontinue all connections issued without proper verification. According to the report “it raises the prospects of millions of mobile connections being [...] Now that’s an offer one can’t refuse! MTNL is offering unlimited surfing for its broadband subscribers and for free. The offer is: no monthly rental, subscribers pay only for the data downloaded. MTNL plans to provide cable TV channels to its broadband subscribers — an issue that might raise the hackles of some in the broadcasting [...] The Department of Telecom (DoT), because of political compulsions or for having faculties than compradors, has disagreed with the suggestion of the Ratan Tata-headed Investment Commission for “permitting 74 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the telecom sector through the automatic route“. If one has to stomach the fact that 49 per cent FDI exist, [...] A disturbing part about the Mumbai terrorist attack was the “collapse” or jamming of the cellphone service. According to the Business Standard: “Net becomes the saviour as cell phones go blank“. The report says: “The clogging of telephone networks — both mobile and landline — during the hours of crisis in Mumbai led to an [...] Thomas K Thomas reports in the The Hindu BusinessLine today that Net Telephony usage outpaced the international long distance market. Taking a swipe at BSNL or the public sector is standard practice these days. So the late arrival of Net Telephony is, obviously, because of the highly regulated licence regime. And the good thing about Net [...] BSNL and MTNL, the two public sector behemoths in India, will be rolling out 3G services by the end of the year. Unfortunately, the two have missed the World Cup bus but one hopes that the two will be available strike good deals to bring “good content” to this new platform, Mobile TV. The World Soccer [...] Here’s what Susan Crawford thinks about Net Neutrality. She’s a professor at the Cardozo School of Law and on the Board of Directors of ICANN. |
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