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| Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| Reliance NetConnect + Free Laptop |
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 Reliance Communications in association with hardware vendors - Acer, HCL and Lenovo is offering a FREE Notebook / Laptop with Reliance Wireless Internet / NetConnect.
RCom is the first Telco to make such an offer in India following into the footsteps of Carphone Warehouse of the UK and Orange in Slovakia.
The Deal: Customer will have to subscribe to a minimum 24 months contract for Reliance Netconnect Wireless Internet access at Rs 1,500 / Month + taxes which yields to Rs 1,684 / Month. You get to access unlimited Internet. This is a good offer for customers who want a Laptop and Internet for lighter use. More details will be updated here.
Why Lighter Use, when I am getting Unlimited Data Transfer ? Because, Reliance Internet is offered on 1xRTT technology which is kindda old and in our hands-on testing experience, we found that the data transfer speed was around 56 Kbps [We are used to atleast 512Kbps broadband] This is not just the fate of Reliance Netconnect but the same holds true for Tata Indicom Plug2Surf and Bharti Airtel Wireless Internet.
We would like to hear your views and experience about the Reliance Laptop + Wireless Internet. |
Published on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:55 PM  |
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| Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| Top 10 Internet Service Providers |
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TRAI, which is doing a good job but with little bit of inertness has published the Internet and Broadband subscriber numbers. At the end of June-2008, India had 11,160,000 million Dial-Up Internet subscribers and 4.38 million Broadband subscribers. The Top 10 Broadband service providers in India are as follows.
- BSNL - 2.32 mn subscribers and 53.15% market share
- MTNL - 0.59 mn subscribers and 13.56% market share. MTNL operates only in the lucrative circles of Delhi NCR and Mumbai
- Bharti Airtel - 0.58 mn subscribers with 13.25% market share
- Hathway Cable - 204K subscribers
- Tata Communications - pathetic 193K subscribers [Tata Indicom + Tata WiMax]
- You Telecom - 146K subscribers
- Reliance Communications - 85K subs
- Sify Broadband - 64K subs
- Asianet Communications - 43K subs
- HFCL Infotel - 19K
The Government of India appears to be serious about broadband services now and is hosting a two day conference at Delhi on the 15th and 16th of this month. If you are a stakeholder, you might want to attend the same. |
| Published on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 11:25 PM |
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| Saturday, October 04, 2008 |
| Essel to Scale Siti Cable Internet Business |
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 Essel group owned Siti Cable / Broadband now under Wire and Wirless India Ltd - WWIL [after business restructuring] has unveiled an ambitious expansion plan to ramp up its existing network infrastructure to serve Cable TV customers with Broadband internet as well.
WWIL is targeting households and SMEs in all Tier-I cities across India. The company wants to have atleast 25% of its revenues ringing in from the broadband services. It is targeting an ARPU / Month of Rs 500. Mr. Deepak Chandani, CEO of WWIL said,
We plan t oadd about 100,000 broadband cusomers within a year. As we ramp up our Digital cable business, it makes perfect sense for us to become a broadband internet service provider as we can offer both the services under the same infrastructure. Siti Broadband in Bangalore was the first in 1999 to offer good quality always on Internet [it was technically not broadband as the speed limit was capped at 128 Kbps]. We had a look at Siti broadband tariff plans and we feel that in the age of rich media, these internet plans will not serve an average customer where data trasnfer limit is capped or in unlimited plans they don't offer 256Kbps speed [Min speed to be classified as broadband]. Siti's pricing is also on the higher side as you can get a 384 Kbps unlimited data transfer plan for Rs 1,000 with other service providers such as BSNL DataOne and Airtel Broadband. |
| Published on Saturday, October 04, 2008 at 1:16 AM |
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