US versus India Broadband Connectivity Comparison - 50 Times Slower But Costlier

April 29th, 2007 Indian government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. This has the potential to kill current telecom business model in India.

April 5th, 2006 An interesting chart comparing available jobs for these four popular languages - java, php, python and ruby. All of them are extensively used for web application development.

October 9th, 2008 Broadband has arrived in India not so long ago. But it has already reached the desks of almost all the internet users.

September 2nd, 2007 I changed my Tata Indicom Broadband plan to 1 Mbps Unlimited starting from this month. My experiences in brief...

October 22nd, 2007 While comparing broadband packages from Tata Indicom and BSNL Dataone, I came across the revised pricing of another provider with whom I have a love-hate relationship. My last experience with them was ok.

April 29th, 2007 I have a love-hate relationship with Alliance Broadband, mostly hate. I took their service twice or thrice and ended up dropping them in favor of BSNL Dataone Broadband.

September 24th, 2007 In small businesses you will often have the ADSL broadband and telephone line from the same connection. You may also need to setup an EPABX on the connection to share the phone line.

August 16th, 2007 So far so good. Despite all the negative perceptions about Tata Indicom, I found the connection more stable than BSNL Dataone.

June 8th, 2008 India has infrastructural issues which impedes the progress of IT industry today. One of the major one is the availability of reliable high-speed broadband service.

September 14th, 2005 Indian cricket is again hounded by match fixing allegations. At least three cricketers(one batsman and two bowlers) are under the scanner according to The Times of India.

October 18th, 2007 I never thought that BSNL, the world's crappiest broadband service, can get any more crappier, but it did. BSNL DataOne is notorious for rapidly switching between up and down states, so fast that it will make your head dizzy.

October 8th, 2007 The single biggest difference between Tata Indicom Broadband & BSNL Dataone Broadband is the upload speed. With BSNL your upload speed is limited to 5-7 KBPS.

August 27th, 2007 1. They, for all purposes, do not have customer support: There is a number (1800-424-1600) but when there are problems in the line, nobody picks it up. In the rare cases when somebody does pickup and answer, they can never solve any problem.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India may lose up to $13 billion in revenues by 2012 if the third generation (3G) spectrum is not allocated soon to telecom operators, an industry lobby said Monday. 'The telecom industry is losing a revenue of $3 billion each year on account of delay in spectrum allocation,' Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) Communications Convergence Committee chairman C.S.

June 6th, 2007 Our DSL link, provided by BSNL (aka World's crappiest broadband service), was down yesterday causing enormous hardship. However today when it came back up, I could connect it using Windows (yeah, we still have couple of spare laptops lying around) but not on Linux.