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This came as a surprise to me indeed.

In case those who aren’t aware, Cybermedia publications gets out it’s industry mouth piece called as Voice and Data. I wouldn’t comment on their publications, but I really wonder whether anyone takes it seriously.

Now Hindu reports:

Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran has been awarded with the “Telecom Man of the year 2005″!

This isn’t enough. Kicking themselves in the backside, raking up more muck and exposing themselves, Voice and Data team named as the ISP of the year! On what frigging basis?

In servicecategories, BSNL bagged four awards for being top , fixed line, national long distance and telecom service provider and won the top international long distance service provider award.

Service category!! It can’t get more ridiculous than that.

Well, you can draw your own conclusions. This blog has already awarded the “assh*** of the year award to one of the BSNL’s staffers. He aptly deserves it anyway.

Before I end, I would like to draw your attention to a news report in Ibn-CNN link. Since I can’t reproduce a copyrighted material, a trivial spelling mistake caught my attention. I reproduce the sentence; in case anyone is reading from IBN- you ought to fire your web master.

Private telecom companies who will also be forced to bring down their STD rates once BSNL does. privatee operators feel that one is only possible after changing the regulations.

Apart from the spelling mistake, this is a major grammatical goof up. Mr Rajdeep Sardesai! You seem to have hired drop out journalists!

Damn. The Indian just can’t stay away from creating nuisance for itself. We could easily do without these charlies masquerading as “serious” stuff; it disappoints me because it’s for the whole world to see.

BSNL as Internet Service Provider of the Year? What did these guys see which I have missed? 

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Just saw this post of yours...

The award was given not on the basis of whether BSNL is good or bad in terms of service but BSNL at that time enjoyed dominant position at around 43 per cent market share (V&D yearly awards are based on market share only....

And Dayanidhi Maran then was indeed regarded by NASSCOM, AUSPI and even COAI as the most efficient IT and telecom minister.. Just compare his performance with Raja of present and Sukhram of old he is definetly better..though Mahajan was best..

Just saw this post of yours...

The award was given not on the basis of whether BSNL is good or bad in terms of service but BSNL at that time enjoyed dominant position at around 43 per cent market share (V&D yearly awards are based on market share only....

And Dayanidhi Maran then was indeed regarded by NASSCOM, AUSPI and even COAI as the most efficient IT and telecom minister.. Just compare his performance with Raja of present and Sukhram of old he is definetly better..though Mahajan was best..

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