Airtel Broadband: 1 Mbps

by Abhishek on December 31, 2008

This is one of the best ever plans from Airtel. 1Mbps unlimited via WiFi. Wow. It’s a “true broadband”. I have been lucky enough to migrate to a newer plan after I got a pay revision and I have gifted (…)

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Reliance Telecom:Asshole of the year

by Abhishek on December 26, 2008

The award singularly goes to Reliance Telecom. They have created a monstrosity which is growing by the minute; they are clueless about the same. If Anil Ambani is reading this, dude, wrap up your operations and sit pretty on your (…)

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Cable cuts: again!

by Abhishek on December 21, 2008

This is assinine. As the newer developing countries integrate with the growing Internet, it can easily bring down the nation to a grinding halt given the frequency with which these cable cuts are now happening. Its frustrating to be logged (…)

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Going ga ga over Wifi

by Abhishek on December 21, 2008

This happens to be my personal opinion; surfing the internet from the comfort of my warm quilt with my laptop in this is freezing cold minus the hassles of being tied down because of the wires. Wifi has made the (…)

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Telecom trends of 2009

by Abhishek on December 17, 2008

This is not the year end prediction but sadly all the action is taking place in the mobile arena. We are not going to see anything major happening in wireline business because it’s not “cool”. First, the contentious number portability (…)

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MTNL 3G: “Jadoo”

by Abhishek on December 13, 2008

Jadoo means magic in Hindi. For all practical purposes, MTNL has pulled out the proverbial rabbit out of the hat when they launched these services recently. The “pundits” claim that this would give MTNL a first mover advantage over the (…)

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Cynicism

by Abhishek on December 7, 2008

What I see across the forums and the boards is cynicism writ large on the reader’s faces. I fail to understand their pre occupation with “doing something” but when it comes to some real action on the ground, they are (…)

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