Category Archives: Digital Divide

Posts on the looming digital divide and the ways and means we can bridge them.

TRAI:Asshole of year 2009

This has been an interesting decade for sure. If we were to keep this in retrospect, I would stared in wide eye wonder had I known that I would someday work on 1Mbps unlimited broadband. This has definitely come after … Continue reading

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Mobile number portability and TRAI: Suckers

As per the media reports, the mobile number portability is delayed because BSNL and MTNL were not ready for it. In any case, I am toying with the idea of filing a second RTI application but my attention is fixated … Continue reading

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TRAI: Second appeal filed with CIC

After receiving no reply from the morons, I have filed a second appeal with CIC, New Delhi. The best part is that it’s free, it’s as easy as it can get by typing in the required information in the drop … Continue reading

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TRAI: Appeal against information to appellate authority

This gets interesting. Having the useless information from the Public Information Officer, I explored ways and means to get the FULL information from TRAI. It appears that there is a huge lobby to keep the definition of broadband as 256 … Continue reading

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The coming of age of mobile

Interop Mumbai Presentation View more documents from rajeshjain. I am posting an interesting presentation by Rajesh Jain on the present mobile scenario in India and the emerging ideas thereof. He is the person behind Novatium; an amazing concept of having … Continue reading

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Vodafone Essar: Ball in TRAI’s court

Vodafone Essar finds itself on sticky wicket or so much as I would like to believe. Over the past two years, I have been a customer of Vodafone in the place where I work; I have been facing a network … Continue reading

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Pirates rejoice!

Piracy, in strictest sense of the term, is defined as “copyright violation”. It is strictly the realm of law to define the various provisions and it’s literal meaning. The purpose of this post is not to go in the legalese … Continue reading

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