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ISPs Sought Competition Panel For Domestic Net Telephony Restriction
ISPs after appealing several times to DoT for allowing them to carry unrestricted domestic internet telephony services has referred its case via a petition to Competition Commission of India. They are looking at respite from commission which could bolster their chances against DoT’s decision.
Currently ISPs are only allowed to provide Net telephony for International [...]
ISP’s To Register All WIFI Users – DoT
Department of Telecommunication (DOT) has instructed the Internet service providers ( ISP’s ) to register all the WIFI users in its network. The regulation is aimed to prevent unauthorized WIFI usage. Many recent terrorist activities using unsecured WIFI networks to send mails led DOT to chalk this new regulation.
DOT has ordered the [...]
TRAI To Now Ensure Broadband Speeds At Your Home & Office
As reported earlier in January 2009, broadband subscriber base grew to 5.65 million, compared to 5.45 million a month earlier and recorded 74.12% growth during the last year.Not yet affected by recession broadband penetration is still growing though at a slower pace when compared to the stellar mobile subscriptions.
It is well known fact that Broadband [...]
Google To Provide Satellite Internet Access To The “Other 3 Billion” in Africa
Google has joined hands with HSBC to provide high-speed Internet access to the people of Africa and other emerging countries, reports Forbes. Along with cable operator Liberty Global, Google has joined hands with a group calledO3b Networks to contribute in the project. O3b stands for the “other 3 Billion”.
The project aims at providing the backend to [...]
Indian Railways To Offer Broadband Internet, Unlimited Downloads In Kerala
Years ago, when the hype about Optical Cables was on a high and everyone was laying thousands of kilometers of optical fiber cables (OFCs) across the length and breadth of the country, Railways decided to do the same, but on a much bigger scale. So, Railways OFC network, spread across some 38,000 kilometers was the biggest Optical Fiber Cable network in the country. I remember reading an exclusive story in BusinessWorld about the same at that time. Now, the Railways has decided to put all those miles of Optic Fiber Cable to good use by providing Internet access, through its Railtel brand
TRAI Puts Forward Consultation For Guidelines On Liberalization of Internet Telephony
The TRAI put forward a consultation paper yesterday, which sought the views of industry experts on issues like permitting the internet service providers (ISPs) to have interconnection with landline and mobile telephones to provide internet telephony within the country.
Currently, ISP’s are not allowed to link landline and mobile phones to the Internet thereby providing Internet Based Telephony [...]
Is Your Net Connection Painfully Slow?? Welcome To India!
On one end there is talk of wireless connectivity and wimax being deployed in India by various players and one the other end comes a report that shall surely put a dampner on all those who are setting up web businesses and streaming movies thinking that an audience exists that has the time and patience [...]
India Loses the Contact : Internet Down For A few Days
Internet service in India and neighbouring countries were affected due to the damage done to undersea link between India and the east coast of USA and UK.
Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) President Rajesh Chharia said repairing will take another 15-20 days.
“Majority of the firms are trying to restore their connections through the [...]
Internet to become ubiquitous in India
Years ago, I watched the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, Baadshah. Media now addresses SRK by this name, which, now you know, started by this movie. But I’m not going to blog about that. Yes, I know you would have preferred that any day. But, what the hell, this is Web-Advertising-Technology. See, no mention of [...]
ISP’s To Offer Wi-Fi Services To Residential Homes!
The internet is soon to take up the space of what television holds today for the common man in India. Very soon, ISP’s are going to start offering Wi-Fi services to residential homes. If these services are offered at cheaper prices to residential homes, it might even lead to the internet taking the space [...]
Net surfing to become expensive & Might even hit growth in net usage
“In a move that could lead to costlier internet services, telecom regulator Trai on Thursday recommended that all internet service providers (ISPs) pay 6% of revenues as licence fee, have a uniform foreign holding of 74% like other telecom services and proposed that new entrants be charged an entry fee of Rs 20 lakh for [...]