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Research and Analysis on the Indian Internet and Broadband

Internet Service Providers in Mumbai

The following is the list of Broadband Internet Service providers in Mumbai. MTNL Mumbai – Recommended Bharti Airtel – Recommended Joister – Recommended Jio FTTH – Recommended VSNL / Tata Indicom – Customer Service is Poor, otherwise it’s good

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Online Gadget Retailers in India

Retail is not just the buzzword in unwired India, but also in Cyber India. We have had online mobile retailers in India. But however, we were looking for various Gadget Retailers and in our study we have found that their are three companies in the business with similar brand identities….

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Reliance Retail E-commerce Plans

Celebrating his 50th Birthday today with the King of Bollywood, Reliance Retail Chairman, Mukesh Ambani announced e-commerce plans. We all know when Mukesh says something he is damn serious about it. Reliance Retail plans to launch an e-commerce portal and setup delivery points in the city to Pick-Up or Deliver…

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Localized Domains and Search on Pilot Basis

Not just the content on your website, but NIXI wants domains in localized languages as well. This means the .In domains names that link to the Vernacular content will also have a Vernacular name 🙂 Really ? Yes That’s what NIXI and and C-DAC are testing on a pilot basis….

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BharatMatrimony Success Stories a Lie

BharatMatrimony.Com had claimed in a national newspaper that it had 8 times more success stories than its nearest rival [Obvious reference to Shaadi.com]. Shaadi.Com contested Bharat Matrimony’s claim in the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission[MRTPC] where the ruling was in favor of Shaadi.Com. The ruling said, Petitioner has made…

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Yahoo! Maps – A hasty launch ?

Yahoo! India announced the launch of Maps Beta. Wait a Minute, if you have ever used Google Maps in the US, then you can skip reading the next part as Yahoo! India maps needs a lot of work.I tried testing the service since they have launched it for polluted Bangalore…

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BSNL MultiPlay IPTV in Pre-paid and Post-Paid segments

Last month, goBroadband reported about the launch of BSNL’s MultiService – IPTV in Pune. It is reliably learnt that BSNL will roll out this service in different cities by Mid-2007 and hopes to end the year with 300,000 subscribers. BSNL is negotiating with various TV channels and content providers. BSNL…

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Online Book Sales – Hotel Reservations Increase

Indians are increasingly becoming Net Savvy even with poor Internet penetration in India. In a recent study, it is found that Indians are purchasing books, travel tickets and hotel reservations online. According to Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association of India’s (FHRAI) hotel industry survey, the percentage of hotels (only…

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