Just like Reliance Netconnect, you must exercise extreme caution before you sign up for Tata. I am wary of their claims ever since a certain guy fought the company in the media. It is probably run by the same bunch of people who were behind the Tata’s wireline debacle.

I do fail to understand as to how the wireless would address the “broadband” issues for this country. I am not sure about the latency periods or the ping times and whether or not adding more subscribers would strech this service. But keeping high initial costs means that the early bunch of adopters would be subsidising for the people signing up later.

I find this idea stupid, so as to say, because the morons are trying to cash on in the desperation of the early few in order to milk their set up costs. But, as I understand, the incremental cost of setting up new infrastructure would be minimal in case they have to “re-jig” their existing towers. Plus, these companies should be able to get the brand new equipment over comfortable cost without adding much to the overheads by long term negotiations.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the useless Chinese crap gets a back door entry in the country.

Tatas are not known for their exemplary workmanship nor customer care. I feel that it is the “mill mentality” which pervades; their steel plant would get customers anyway. It is the take it or leave it attitude that pervades and till the time they are hauled over the coals by squeezing their balls black and blue, I doubt whether anyone would be constrained to deliver.

They make the worst Indian cars and trucks; Tata tea addresses majorly the lower end of the market with their “pataka chai” and Tata Indicom needed Virgin mobile because their claims have been deflowered by the prevailing situation. I don’t trust their claims verbatim because there is nothing in black and white in their account books or independent verification for their tall claims about the network superiority.

Photon plus remains another empty promise with awkward tariff plans. Beware, as usual!

Reliance has done it again. First, they circumvent the rules to get the spectrum by floating some kind of a “cheetah telecom”. Then, they pay a hefty amount to unknown faces to change the policy (or whatever it is) to favor themselves. Getting spectrum at dirt cheap prices, they “upgrade” to 3G network and then market the shit as “new age broadband”.

There is cynicism and contempt for the people running the show; which makes me sick in the stomach to the extreme. They are morons of all hues, bastardising the concept of free play and pulling out all stops to monopolise the market at any cost.

I get tons of emails as comments which have been shared between the customers and the company. For privacy reasons, I cannot put them on the blog but it is a fair indicator of the rot that has set in. We as customers are at a mercy and with a pliant media and the “watchdog”, you can rule out any resolution on that count.

As I had mentioned earlier, I would never ever pay for a service from Reliance; so at best caveat emptor! You have been forewarned before you sign up for Reliance Netconnect. Beware of the shoddy customer care and the awful tariff plans.