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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Quality of Service - TRAI Needs Your Opinion

The Telecom Regulator [TRAI] has informed to collect public opinion on the Quality of Broadband service by various service operators in India. TRAI acknowledges about low browsing speed than the one promised by ISP. It said,
Incidences have come to the notice of the Authority where subscribers allege speed of their Broadband connections is much less than subscribed speed. In order to monitor the quality of service of broadband services.
It is also demanding that Service providers monitor their network and take corrective actions before the quality of service is impacted. It is generally seen that such corrective actions are not taken by service providers in time.

TRAI is open to your valuable comments. You can Fax them to 011-23211998 With Subject - BroadbandIndia.Com - Bandwidth required for ISPs for better connectivity and improved QoS.
on or before Feb-1-09.

If you have experienced slow browsing and have other QoS related issues like downtime of more than 24 hours [especially VSNL / Tata Indicom] or Billing Issues, etc then Register them at ComplaintBox and we will collct them and make a single representation to TRAI.
Published on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM  
Monday, January 19, 2009
BSNL WiMax at Ahmedabad within a Week

Announcing a new feather in its cap, public sector telecom giant BSNL is all set to roll out worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMax) services beginning with Ahmadabad within a week.

The company has planned to spend around Rs1,600 crore on the deployment of WiMax to enable wireless transmission of data. As per available details from the Department of Telecommunications, BSNL has received spectrum in the 2.5-MHz band in three circles, namely, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Published on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM   0 comments
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Can WiMax Put us in Big 3 of Wireless Broadband ?

Wimax 1.0 would get a "B- / C" on the test scores when measured for promise to performance in India. However, the operators have had their share of experience and are all set to woo back a large number of consumers after the WiMax BWA Spctrum Auction.

WiMax forum, industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based on the harmonized IEEE 802.16 estimates India to have 27.5 million WiMAX users representing approximately 20% of the global WiMAX user base by 2012. At the end of Nov-08, India had 5.25 mn broadband subscribers]

The Indian telecom sector operates in a volume driven market, and with India's broadband penetration rate still low, India is not only positioned to become one of the world's largest broadband wireless markets, but also to support an ancillary ecosystem that will generate
further employment and enhance development in semi urban and rural areas.

India's planned WiMAX deployments are expected to give the device-hungry Indian market the access to connected laptops, USB dongles, mobile phones, and mobile internet devices that they have been demanding. WiMAX Forum predicts that major rollouts of WiMAX technology in India will have a tremendously positive effect on the nation's economy. e-Learning, Tele-medicine and e-Governance are th likely applications to be rolld out on this platform [atleast a marketing pitch to keep evryone happy].
Published on Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 12:35 PM   0 comments
Friday, January 02, 2009
Browser Market Share on our Network

We check your browser analyze what browsers / OS / screen resolution visitors to this site are using. Without any doubt Windows still continues to be the dominant OS on our network.

Browser Market Share:
We have in the past strongly recommended you to use Firefox browser. However, most of you still continue to use IE as the share of IE is still a high - 65.2%. Internet Explorer 6.0 is pretty flaky which most of you are using. Switch to Firefox now.

The second most popular browser is Firefox with 24.3% of our visitors using it to surf. Chrome has picked up a fantastic market share of 3.85% since its launch in Sept-08 while Opera is at 2.7% followed by Safari at 1.1% and then the rest.

The statistics are for the month of Nov and Dec 2008. It will be interesting to compare how the distribution will look like at the end of this year. Any guesses where Chrome will be ?
Published on Friday, January 02, 2009 at 8:49 AM   0 comments
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