There are many ways to access Broadband. Some of them are described here in an article that appeared in The Tribune It isnt written well but would give a general idea about the same.
One thing is for sure. Metro Ethernet isnt a viable option since it hasn’t been validated anywhere. Since VSNL wants to ride on the same, Cisco India managed to convince them about the merits. I am looking forward for their roll out and would comment on the same again then.
At the back of this argument, a certain skunk who writes on Telecom from US was overjoyed about reading this news. It would come as no surprise to me because his blog is teeming with references from Industry sources. I am anti corporate sector- somthing that I disclaimed right from the start.
Anyway, Content Sutra has an interesting write up on telemedicine. Wish he had read my earlier articles on the same. Telemedicine is an old hat. Plus it’s languishing because of high costs involved. Apollo was in the fray earlier- no one knows for sure as to what happened to their huge fanfare and hoopla behind the same. They even got Kalam to inaugrate a couple of projects like those. I really wish that someone could have guts enough to follow them instead of printing out the press handouts in the media.
Are people really benefitting from Telemedicine?
Ramesh Jain has an interesting article on IPTV. This is something that India is looking forward to. Some kind of a demonstration that Indian Telecom scene has “matured”. Read it for what it’s worth.
This link on Business Week is what I stumbled on quite by accident. it details the Reliance Fiasco. Interesting.
Finally, Sify supposedly crosses 100,000 mark That’s 100,000 miserable customers- incase you are not aware of the same. Oh well, did anyone know that there is whole website of ardent Sify haters here online? No company would ever be able to generate so much of hatred for itself as Sify has done.
Some quirks in life. Strange, people seem to hold their head high up and still commit crimes.
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"On thing I really hate is the “analyst reports”. Gartner, Forrester et al. I really wonder at times as to why we give them undue reliance anyway. Some scums I know of, they really do."
Heh yeah, they are whores, it's not a secret. But the big wigs tend to read their reports as they seem to be pros at it.
Paid hacks are an ever increasing problem on the net. Companies know people tend to ignore ads so they disguise ads in the form of an article and pay to insert it in strategic places. The ad is written up to look like an article and all the columnist has to do is lend his/her name to it.
There was a discussion on slashdot about this some weeks back, in particular it was regarding a shop called the Men's warehouse in the US. Said company paid to get articles written about how suits are making a comeback, before you know it ppl are actually saying/thinking the same. Quite insidiuous but that's the best proof of concept you will get.
The extent to which it goes is directly proportinal to how big a companies PR budget is.
I guess only defense aginst such things is to be more critical of what one reads. The web helps but also is a source of distraction here.
The often given excuse is who has the time or cares ;)
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