Category Archives: Indian Telecom

3G versus 4G: What is good enough?

The debate can never be settled partly because of the huge advertising spins on the dip shit wireless access. I have never been a fan of the same but instead always advocate landline based broadband access and free public Wifi. … Continue reading

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3G Mess: New engine of growth?

There is no authoritative verdict on Indian Telecom scene. In the absence of any concrete statistics, it becomes difficult to pin down the exact number of subscribers, the actual growth of the telecom sector and value added services. TRAI releases … Continue reading

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Telecom Scandal India: More details

From the world of mobile phones…. to the real life scandals. Rajeev Srinivasan has a list of the write ups detailing this “scandal” of monumental proportions. It is rumored to be worth…hold your breath….22 billion dollars! Imagine the kind of … Continue reading

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Nokia: Dying a slow death

It dominates the low end market. It dominates the developing countries. It’s made efforts to work towards opening up Symbian. It’s making forays in Linux and assorted phones. Yet, the largest phone maker in the world is still not able … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Lynx 10.04: Late night thoughts on it

I wrote a write up on Desi critics on the same issue; basically a platform for writing on something which is not related here to the main “context” of the blog. The full write up is here.

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Indian Telecom: No “backdoor” Chinese Equipment

This should have been done earlier! Huawei has set up a complete infrastructure with loads of Chinese employees; I am sure most of them as “spies”. The ownership structure is very opaque and it is plausible that it is being … Continue reading

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Illegal Phone Tapping: Whither privacy?

Well, then there are some real desperadoes to subvert national security. There is no REAL privacy per se. Your thoughts can be accessed and these write ups are for some stashing away or indexed in Google for times to come. … Continue reading

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