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Telecom Policy India: Stupidity compounded

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Of course. First and the foremost. We lack a credible infrastructure to speak off. Telecom equipment could have sparkled a “revolution”; got the manufacturing instead of services job in the economy. Detractors to this statement would allege, for obvious reasons that jobs are nevertheless being created; but it is the manufacturing that counts for a robust economy. This has been mentioned in the previous posts so I wouldn’t comment on this issue again.

 

In the same vein, broadband has been given a complete miss. In some recent telecom conference, the same issue was raised with assholes patting themselves on their back about “mythical 100 million” users. Telecom is a very dynamic field; it is impossible to nail down the exact number of subscribers unless you have strict defined criteria for what constitutes an active connection and the user who has fallen off the grid. Nil. Nada.

 

3G has been a monumental waste of resources (indirectly your money, you assholes); for all your crowing about the “world class data services”, these companies are sticking up a sore thumb up your ass. In terms of indirect taxes, huge mark ups on the tariff plans, advertising costs and pathetic end result to consumers (who likes caps on the broadband, you sissies), consumer is the end looser.

The reason why everyone jumped on the “3G bandwagon” was because of spectral efficiencies and not otherwise. No one likes dropped calls; 3G is going to ameliorate that. This also gave the companies a reason to upgrade their ancient infrastructure and opening up the backdoors for “real time snooping”.

 

Hence, these three issues are the most “rattling issues”, in my opinion. They are unlikely to be addressed in fancy documentations, “think tanks”, myriad “research firms” and others because none of them seem to have a fundamental grasp on the issues. So for all those morons who whimper on the forums about “lack of services”, you are unlikely to see any major change coming this year either.

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Indian Telecom: No “backdoor” Chinese Equipment

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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 funded by the Chinese Government in a big way.

Any potential loss of revenue is filled up by more than willing government which makes these companies very aggressive on price front. It is said that their prices are about 20% lower than the competing companies from Europe.

I have always maintained that the so called telecom revolution is a BIG major missed opportunity to shore up Indian manufacturing. Except maybe for heavy manufacturing, we have nothing else to speak of. Much of the technology is “imported” while the so called “software superpower” is basically a euphemism for petty sweat shops; likes of ironically China and Malaysia where the downtrodden are paid a pittance by the hour. We had vast swathes of Chinese mobile phones coming in without the mandatory IMEI numbers; a huge security risk. It was all allowed by these bastards to increase their customers knowing fully well the potential security implications.

If that is not all, China has been mounting a covert and overt cyber warfare. First it was well publicized attack on Google which whined and scampered; then media went into overdrive when it was revealed that “sensitive” documents and files were “hacked“.

NY Times carried out a detailed report on this issue.

If we are “serious” about securing our frontiers, we need to “close our backdoors”. Simple. Chinese must be booted out.

Mobile phones to become costlier

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Another watered down budget; Manmoron and his team of financial advisors are clearly at a loss for ideas. There is a crying need to reduce the indirect taxes on the products that is consumed by one and all. This would only lead to more consumption which is better for the economy than persisting with the present trends which would lead to inevitable recession. Much of the “growth” of the economy has been from the services sector with almost 15% coming from this supposedly “scorching pace”. However, the supports of the economy, namely manufacturing and consumption has slumped. This has only lead to inflationary pressures and our massive dependence on oil has only worsened with ballooning oil bill.

The finance minister (may his tribe decrease) has introduced a “National Calamity Contingent Duty” on the mobiles; they are bound to get more expensive by about 1%.

Perfect timing eh, Mr Moron?