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Research and Analysis on the Indian Internet and Broadband

2007 – Year of Jokes from BSNL + Economic Times

After Satyam Infoway its BSNL Broadband in the high spirits of announcements without any substance. Officials at BSNL Kolkata claim that they will deploy 500 Mbps [yes don’t pinch yourself, its 500 Mbps] optical fiber broadband networks in Kolkata. Probably this will be the fastest broadband network in any city…

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Airtel 8Mbps Broadband Reality + New Plans

Finally we are seeing the light at the end of the fiber, though not so colorful yet 🙂 Airtel Broadband’s 8 Mbps plan is now Live in Bangalore and Chennai. However, the disappointing part is there are no unlimited data transfer plans and are way too expensive 🙁 The packets…

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IOL Broadband – MTNL VoIP

IOL Broadband has signed a VOIP service providers agreement with MTNL. MTNL has taken a bold step in introducing VOIP services in keeping with the global trend of telcos to enhance their ARPU’s. This agreement will allow the company to interconnect with millions of MTNL subscribers with local / STD…

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BSNL’s WiMax – Update from Kolkatta

State owned company, BSNL which is in the best form to deploy wired broadband on demand across India for some reason has a very laid back attitude. Nonetheless, the company wants to provide broadband services via WiMax in rural India. Using the USO funds contributed by all other Telcos in…

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Indiatimes.com Malware + Arzoo Spamming

Indiatimes.com, is reported to be serving malware. Upto 434 files located on its web servers are tweaked to do so. Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at ScanSafe said at least 18 different IP addresses are involved in the attack. The report has been shared with Microsoft since hackers are…

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Promise Vs Performance

Former Telecom Minister, Dayanidhi Maran declared 2007 as year of broadband. With just another 2 months to go lets review the state of broadband in India.At the end of 2006, India had 2.05 mn broadband subscribers.March-2007: 2.34mnJune-2007: 2.52 mn. At the end of Sept-2007, we have 2.67 mn broadband subscribers….

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Xbox Live Offer – 500 Points from Microsoft

Microsoft is running an exclusive offer on XBox Live. Buy your 12 month Gold Subscription Card through any of the following Retail Stores. You need to activate the card before Dec-5th. After 5th of Dec, you will receive a 16 digit code, on your Windows Live id which is registered…

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VSNL expands Wi-Fi Hotspot Alliance

Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) has announced the expansion of its international in-roaming service on Wi-Fi, with the addition of NTT, Japan, Starhub, Singapore already utilizes the company’s Wi-Fi network across India for its customers. VSNL / Tata Indicom has been leading the growth of the Wi-Fi industry in India and…

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