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15 to 30 kbps only in Idea? Aren't you getting upt 120 kbps in Reliance?

That is not 5 kbps, but 5 kBps. Note that 1 kB = 8 kb, which means you are getting 40 kbps (5 * 8) in the above screenshot. So you are getting 80 kbps to 120 kbps at night which is perfectly fine. Yes, during day time it is much slower probably due to the congestion.

Probably the CD is not blank. If you are 100% sure that it is blank, then download, Install and run this utility: http://www.dvdinfopro.com/download/dvdinfo.zip Then post a screenshot of what details it shows about your drive and disk. It will show details like this: http://www.dvdinfopro.com/images/mainwindowbig.jpg

They have run out of cash since people panicked after rumours spread that ICICI Bank may go the Lehman way. So they might have been caught by surprise after the sudden surge in the cash withdrawals from ATMs. Some say that the rumour was started by ADAG as Anil Ambani had hinted that Reliance Capital may enter banking services soon!

ah ok, I'm about 3 - 4 kilometres from there, no test signal here. So it must be in very limited areas during the test phase.

It is possible to use multiple modems in a PC at a time to increase the total speed, but the ISP has to support synchronization of multiple modems. Reliance does not support it, nor most of the Indian ISPs.

@Praveen: Where is your location in Trivandrum?

It defenitely is a hoax message.

115 kbps is the maximum speed of the connection which is correct. The practical speed will be mush lesser, maybe around 80 - 100 kbps. What speed did you expect to see with NetConnect service?

9907 belongs to Reliance GSM for Madhya Pradesh circle

LiveMint Wed, Oct 8 2008. 12:58 AM IST The country’s largest mobile phone company, Bharti Airtel Ltd, formally launched its much anticipated digital television service, a direct-to-home (DTH) service branded Airtel Digital TV, but its ad blitz was somewhat undermined by rival Reliance Big TV Ltd. Airtel Digital TV had been running teaser commercials for the past week on national television that didn’t identify the brand in an ad that ended with a voice-over saying: “See you at home.” Reliance Big TV, part of the Anil Ambani-run conglomerate, ran a strikingly similar television commercial, including the red sofa in Airtel Digital’s ad as well as a voice-over that went: “See you at home”. Big TV touted features such as 200-plus channels, 32 cinema “halls” and digital quality audio and video. “If you (Airtel) are going to tease people, we (Big TV) are going to feed their appetite,” said Bobby Pawar, chief creative officer of Mudra Group, which created the Big TV campaign. “The brand is called Big (TV) and we don’t do things in half measure.” Big TV also notes that Airtel had no copyright claims since the teaser ads ran with no brand logo or name. “It’s an open market and every player is expected to respond to competition. The campaign also gave us an opportunity to make specific claims on the product,” says Sanjay Behl, group head (brand and marketing) of the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Big TV hopes to grab a 40% market share and is distributing its service through 100,000 outlets across 6,000 towns, piggybacking in part on affiliate Reliance Communications Ltd, which ranks behind Bharti Airtel in the country’s bitterly competitive mobile phone services business. If you (Airtel) are going to tease people, we (Big TV) are going to feed their appetiteBobby Pawar Mudra GroupBharti Airtel and Reliance Communications have tangled before in various industry takeover battles as well as fights over industry standards and spectrum. The ambush is similar to what PepsiCo Inc.’s India unit did for the 1996 Cricket World Cup when Coca-Cola Co. had touted the official drink status of Coke at the tournament. Pepsi countered with a “Nothing Official About It” campaign. And more recently, in 2005, publisher Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd grabbed a teaser campaign that was being used by new newspaper Daily News & Analysis in Mumbai. JWT India, Airtel Digital TV’s agency, mocked Big TV’s attempt. “I thought Big (TV) was big enough to have ideas of their own,” says Agnello Dias, chief creative officer at JWT. “If Big (TV) thinks that Airtel DTH’s launch depends solely on a red chair, they will be very surprised when the campaign breaks.” Airtel Digital TV’s campaign, replete with a cricket and Bollywood ensemble, features actors Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan, cricketers Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan, as well as current Airtel ad stars Madhavan and Vidya Balan, and music composer A.R. Rahman. Bharti Airtel becomes the fifth player in this nascent business after Tata Sky Ltd, an 80:20 joint venture between the Tata group and Star Group; Dish TV Ltd, an Essel Group company; Sun Direct TV Pvt. Ltd, a joint venture between Chennai-headquartered SunTV Network Ltd and Malaysia’s South Asia Entertainment Holdings Ltd; and Big TV. Public broadcaster Prasar Bharti runs a free service, called DD Direct. India has an estimated seven million paying DTH customers and this number is expected to grow to 25 million by 2012, according to a report by industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers. Airtel executives claimed the phone company’s large subscriber base of at least 75 million, its brand strength and a large distributor network will give it the edge in gaining market leadership, claims similar to what Reliance made when it launched Big TV in August. “India has 225 million households and the DTH penetration is barely 3% of that,” says Manoj Kohli, chief executive officer and joint managing director at Bharti Airtel. “At Airtel, we didn’t want to miss this opportunity, and that’s how we decided last year to enter this segment and add media and entertainment to our portfolio.” “The entrance of every new player into the segment will help expand the market and that is good news for the industry and consumers,” says Rajesh Jain, who heads the information, communication and entertainment practice at audit and consulting firm KPMG. "see you at home" Teaser ad 1 from AirTel: "see you at home" Teaser ad 2 from AirTel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yons1lNIaPU

AirTel has now started showing the AirTel logo at the end of the advertisement to prevent the confusion. The marketing ploy by Reliance/Mudra must have been a surprise for AirTel as Reliance's campaigns are usually dull ones.

farewell

See post #9 & #10 in http://www.rimweb.in/forums/index.php?showtopic=15706

7 Oct 2008, 1712 hrs IST Press Trust of India Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has made its debut in the television space with the launch of its direct to-home (DTH) satellite television service, which will offer over 175 channels across the country from October 9. The service will be available to customers through 21,000 retail points including Airtel Relationship Centres in 62 cities. "This is a right time for Airtel to enter the market.... the launch of Airtel digital TV is the culmination of our 'three screens' strategy, which is to be present across mobile phone, computer and TV screens. We are very clear at Airtel and will take over as a leader of the sector as soon as possible," Airtel chief executive officer and managing director Manoj Kohli said. At present, there are five DTH players in the Indian market. There are 225 million households across the country and the penetration is only 3 per cent for DTH services. "There is a huge potential in this market.... We believe that the Indian DTH segment offers immense growth potential going forward. With added benefits of Airtel's strong brand equity and wide distribution network, we are well placed to emerge as a leading player in the segment," he added. Initially, the company had introduced three different packages for the North and Southern markets. For the Northern market, the package starts from Rs 2,499 and for the South, the package would start from Rs 1,499. Depending on the language and genre of channels, the monthly tariffs would range from Rs 125 to Rs 424, he informed.

Telecom Tiger Mumbai | 06 Oct 2008 Don’t be surprised if your company’s next AGM is staged at the local cinema palace. Fibre to the premises is equipping leading cinema theatre chains like Adlabs to become the venue for two-way videoconferencing and gaming in their quest for revenue-enhancing opportunities. Reliance Communications (RCom)’s nationwide fibre based Metro Ethernet has enabled sister concern Adlabs to become the first exhibitor in the world to transmit feature-length digital films directly to theatres on a commercial basis every week. As multiplexes proliferate and compete for audience footfalls, this same capacity is being tested for streaming business and personal entertainment content during slack weekday hours. In July of this year, the screening of “Mission Istanbul” in Adlabs Ahmedabad marked the debut of “store and forward” cinema in the country and this week, Adlabs clocks up the 2,200th screening at the RWorld Gandhingar with “Hello.” Fibre-distributed cinema is not new, having premiered in the year 2000 by Qwest, Cisco and 20th Century Fox in the US and again in 2005 for a handful of films by NTT West, Warner Brothers, Paramount and Sony Pictures in Japan. But neither of these agreements resulted in any permanent networked distribution for digital cinema. Bollywood, with its heaving mass popularity across the length and breadth of India is a core candidate for same-day networked distribution of film files. And Adlabs has found a willing champion in RCom’s Broadband Division, which is seeking to optimise the capillarity of its IP-over-multicast capabilities. The first step to digital transmission is to make the screens digital-ready. Towards this end, Adlabs Cinema converted more than ten percent of its 185 screens in north and western India this year to Hollywood-grade cinema and is distributing to the majority of these sites via optical fibre. The plan is to gradually migrate all 78 theatres to fibre-based distribution from the current physical medium. Typically, the average size of a digital cinema package (in film parlance, a Hollywood-quality digitally-encoded feature film) is 100 to 170 Gbps. These are distributed on hard disk drives (HDDs), sent by courier to theatres around the country. This carries its share of risks as the containers could get lost, intercepted, damaged or stolen along the way. While the file is heavily encrypted, a 500 GB drive is worth a significant amount in its own right. “Fibre optic transmission of digital cinema benefits all stakeholders in the value chain: cinemas, distributors, producers and service providers,” is the view of Patrick von Sychowski, chief operating officer of Adlabs Digital Cinema, which is an independent service provider of digitised cinema to film producers and distributors. “Delivery takes six to eight hours over a 100 Mbps connection in multi-cast mode. That is much faster than door-to-door for a hard disk drive.” There is also little chance of a film not reaching the theatre in time because a flight was cancelled or heavy rain interfered with the satellite download of the film. Though in the early stages of the commercial pilot, HDDs were sent as back-up, Adlabs reports zero failure in the film arriving intact. “Only if a road is dug up and the optic cable damaged, would you not have the film arrive in time at the multiplex,” he says. “Reliance has laid over 80,000 kms of 48 core fibre in India which means the hard work has already been done for us and we simply have to connect the last mile (usually meters) from the switch or the street to the multiplex,” says Sychowski. Remote areas like Kashmir and Assam have less coverage, he says, but there are also fewer cinemas there. One of the big lessons from this year’s experience is that sending large fibre packets from point A to point B via fibre optic is relatively easy, but enabling each link for multicasting is much more problematic, says Oswald Soans, network operations manager for Adlabs Films, necessitating configuration of the routers as well as application and network management software. Adlabs’ appetite for bandwidth is enormous and RCom, which was doling out 10 to 20 Mbps to the average business customer, was challenged to quickly provision up to 100 Mbps. In the next phase, Soans wants the operator to scale up to 1 Gbps. The virtues of vertical integration notwithstanding, Adlabs still had to bargain and negotiate for a favourable commercial arrangement. Reliance charges a one-time fee to connect up each cinema site and Adlabs Digital Cinema then pays a monthly lease on the line, the cost of which it recovers in the form of a premium transport charge from film distributors and savings on airway bills by not having to insure, secure, send out and then retrieve the HDDs. To digitise a film, Adlabs Digital Cinema receives post-production files from various facilities across Mumbai (Prime Focus, EFX, Pixion, etc.) at its Mastering HQ in Film City in Goregaon. There, they are converted into a digital cinema package that meets interoperability and security standards specified by the Hollywood studios. The finished product is then “Qced” (quality controlled) on a big screen, before being cloned onto HDDs and sent via a 200Mbps connection from Film City to the Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge Centre in Navi Mumbai and from there on to the theatres over 100 Mbps lines. As an independent service provider owned by Adlabs, Adlabs Digital Cinema serves all the cinema chains, including PVR, Satyam, Inox and Fun, as well as smaller and single-owned theatres. “At the moment we have only done this for Adlabs cinemas but in the future we expect to extend this to other cinema chains that we supply films to,” says Sychowski, “all 500 plus screens. It just makes tremendous sense to distribute films over fibre, at least for India. Our next phase will be to look at international distribution over RCom''s FLAG network to places like Singapore, London and New York.”

Adlabs to digitally upgrade 500 cine screens October 6th, 2008 - 7:06 pm - IANS Adlabs Films Ltd, a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), will digitally upgrade 500 cine screens in India in the next 18 months, according to a senior group executive.Adlabs will use the 80,000 km of optic fibre cable (OFC) for telecommunication, laid by another ADAG subsidiary, telecom operator Reliance Communications, for transmitting movies directly to the screens, said Patrick von Sychowski, chief operating officer COO) at Adlabs Digital Cinema. Von Sychowski said Reliance Communications already has the FLAG (fibre optic link across the globe) network for telecommunication, which would be used for transmitting digitalised movies globally once the cinemas are fitted with digital projection facilities. Films are encoded at the digital cinema mastering facility at the Adlabds Film City in Mumbai, the first facility in Asia to receive the international FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) accreditation. So far, only cinema halls in Ahmedabad, Vashi, Nashik and Gandhinagar have been connected to OFC. “But the process to connect all Adlabs screens to OFC has already started,” von Sychowski said, adding: “ADAG has beat Hollywood in this respect.” What he hinted at was that Adlabs Films has become the first entity in the world to use OFC to distribute movies directly to the screen on a commercial basis. Currently, distribution companies such as UFO distribute movies through satellite. Incidentally, it was as recently as last week that five major Hollywood studios worked out a $1-billion deal with a group of exhibitors to digitally upgrade 20,000 US and Canadian cinema screens from next year. The studios involved in the deal are Walt Disney, Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, News Corp’s 20th Century Fox, General Electric’s Universal Pictures and Lionsgate Entertainment. Von Sychowski said OFC-transmitted distribution system benefited all stakeholders: audiences on account of the clarity of images and better sound quality; distributors as print costs are cut and delivery time saved, and exhibitors as projection is improved, attracting more viewers. Additionally, he said, the system eliminates piracy, and enables three-dimensional viewing, as well as live viewing of events such as cricket matches and music concerts without the aid of satellite. “Of course, nothing will do away with piracy so long as people can walk into a cinema with a video camera. But the system we have installed will do away with piracy before the film is projected. Even after that, if a film is copied, we can trace back any digital copy to the cinemas, screen, day and the time it was recorded illegally,” von Sychowski said.

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Mind telling how to replicate that cPanel problem at my side so that I can check? Please mention which cPanel skin you are using also.

I guess that is a girly thingy, see this: http://www.rimweb.in/forums/index.php?showtopic=14758 !

I use vBulletin in another private forum that I own for more than 2 years now. I would choose IBP any time over vBulletin, especially with the new features expected in IPB 3.0 (due by December 2008). When you say that there "seems there is a small mistake in one of the php files" after seeing the "Outline mode" display feature of IPB, it shows that you do know know much about the "wonders" of IBP yet. Infact the "Outline mode" display feature exists in vBulletin also. So you don't seem to know about all the "wonders" in both. "hack" as in modification? So isn't that a good thing to use IPB?

Business Standard Mumbai October 06, 2008, 0:03 IST Reliance Globalcom, the international telecom operations subsidiary of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG), is restructuring its business under four verticals in an attempt to further penetrate the $285-billion global communications market. The company will structure its services under four business segments — Data, voice, WiMax and National Long Distance (NLD) services — that would help it increase focus on customer segments and improve revenue generation. "This will augment capabilities to offer highly customer-focused solutions to end-consumers and businesses, including enterprises, systems integrators and carriers, around the globe. This is an important step towards making Reliance Globalcom one of the top five global communications enterprises," sources close to the development said. The group will realign operations of Reliance Globalcom (formerly Flag Telecom), Reliance Globalcom Services (earlier acquired Yipes Enterprises) and Reliance Vanco Group (formerly Vanco Group) under the four proposed verticals. Further details of the restructuring were not immediately available. An R-ADAG spokesperson declined to comment. After the restructuring, the company's data business will compete with global majors such as AT&T, British Telecom Global Services, Orange Business Services and Verizon Business among others. Reliance Globalcom intends to service medium to large MNCs, either directly or through channel partners. It expects the new structure to accelerate growth into the rapidly growing communications market by offering comprehensive voice, video and data network services.

It is a new Google Labs service which can be used to deliver messages to subscribed members in a group by SMS. The SMS can be sent by the group owner directly to the group members, automatically using RSS, blogspot.com, Google Groups (i.e., when they are updated). I wonder how they manage to support sending so many free SMSs to everyone Subscribe to RIMwebSMS group to get new topic updates at RIMweb.in!

Not really. It is one of the most stable handset from LG for Reliance. I still have it, other than the battery it is still in good condition.

Your comments seems to be pointed towards a particular moderator or few moderators. In that case, shouldn't you be sending this message to them and discuss with them unless the moderator that you are referring to is me? Or do you just want to convey this message indirectly through me so that they would see it too? Discussing with them directly would be most effective in my opinion, afterall you insist that you want to be "open". I believe you are right, the moderator can notify the member in such a case through PM. I believe this link can be added as a custom modification. I will check how it can be added shortly to the forum main page. This feature is already available. When the member is online, you will see against the member name and when the member is offline, you will see against the member name.