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| Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| Bharti Airtel seeks incentives for Landline Revival |
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 With the penetration of Wireless services in India, it seems that Landlines have taken a backseat and in some states witnessing negative growth which is not too good for the health of an Integrated Telco like Bharti Airtel.
We all know that Tata Communications and Reliance Communications Wireless Broadband has been a failure in India. Fiexedline phones running over a copper network, bring super fast DSL Internet to your doorstep which is the need of the hour. Facing resistance from BSNL to open its copper cable network, Bharti Airtel CEO has now asked the Government for tax concessions. Mr. Mittal said,
The plain old telephone service, better known as fixed line telephony, has become the bedrock for broadband telephony and serves as the basic and vital platform for any knowledge society. Almost all the internet and broadband applications for the private sector, government and society-government interface are principally run on fixed line telephony across the world.Fixed line in itself needs support, and therefore, it should be entitled to access USO funds rather than contributing to the USO fund itself.
The fixed line segment pays licence fee of 6-10 per cent and a service tax of 12.36 per cent, which the government can certainly "take away". It also contributes 5 per cent towards the Universal Service Obligation [USO] Fund.
Hopefully the Government will wake up and provide some incentives for higher broadband penetration soon. |
Published on Monday, June 09, 2008 at 10:31 PM  |
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| Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| Airtel's Innovation - On Demand Speed. Pay as You go Surfing |
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 Bharti Airtel has informed about the launch of value added broadband service - Broadband Speed on Demand to its existing customers based on the Pay as you go model. This enables a customer to upgraded to higher speed for limited amount of time.
To upgrade, all you need to do is log-on to Airtel.in website and request for more bandwidth. After you are done with your really super fast broadband surfing, you can log-on to the site again and switch back to your regular broadband speed. This facility is available only for customers in select cities.
Tariffs for Broadband on Demand [Subject to Change]
256 Kbps Rs 25 / hr
512 Kbps Rs 40 / hr
1 Mbps Rs 75 / hr
2 Mbps - Rs 120 /hr
Unfortunately it is unavailable in our city, Bangalore. Check out of if it is available in your city and if you can provide some feedback on this service, we will highly appreciate it as it will help other readers as well. |
| Published on Monday, June 02, 2008 at 7:11 AM |
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