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ye country mein sab sala chor hai! (Everbody rips you off in this country!)

Wow! Two more Mumai guys of which one is actually a girl! I too am from Mumbai guys! Mumbai Rockz!

abhay, i am not debating whether it is easier or not. All i am saying is China has improved its internal communications system more rapidly than we have. They have more than doubled their bandwidth in about a year and a half. Did you know Sweden has an internal gigabit(1000Mbps) switched network just for their universities? The average home user gets a 512Kbps internet connection without any limits for as low as $10 per month??? They are also much richer than us and have about 1/100th or lesser population of India so an average Joe over there can afford a semi-expensive connection of 10Mbps(YES 10Megabits per second). While the upper middle class can afford a 100Mbps(One Hundred Megabits per second!!!) connection. Does that ring some bell? We, being the foolish IT "super power", are still riding on our age old copper wires laid in the old British days while countries which hardly speak English, a disadvantage in the international market, are doubling their internal bandwidth in their country(viz. China). Why I mention "hardly speak English" is because when you want to implement technology and infrastructure the technical know-how comes from the west. Thus there are extremely large language barriers. But that doesnt scare away the Chinese. We dont even have those barriers. We are "hard working" extremely educated Indians(Utter BS)!! It took the Chinese almost 20-25 years to build infrastructure to get their bandwidth to 2700MHz and imagine they just doubled it in 1/20th the time! 1 year!!! And why do you think companies set up mirror servers?? Because they want to waste their money? No! They want to do it because the users in a particular geographical area should get maximum bandwidth. Why do you think we have yahoo.co.in and a yahoo.com?? Just for fun eh? yahoo.co.in's server is physically located in India(VSNL Mumbai datacentre to be precise). That makes our access to it a bit faster. But what the hell!! We are still in the stone age! We dont have decent DSL, ADSL, Cable, Vsat, E1, T1 connection in this country! So when do you think will access to the yahoo.co.in's server will be faster? When us bloody Indians will have a faster internal network. That will be possible only when we will have a fast fibre optic network connecting each an every city where power can reach AND BANDWIDTH BECOMES CHEAP! I am not angry at you I am just angry at the f**king politicians who are so corrupt that they dont want to improve anything!

hah! They(americans) had levied sanctions on India when we conducted the nuclear tests in 1998. Nothing had happened back then and nothing will happen now

I dont believe it! You guys didnt know about Dhirubhai Ambani International School?! Its waaay old!

Here are my counter arguments to your points: 1. China has a larger population than India. Also, broadband subscribers in China is greater than India 2. Not necessarily, TATA has recently bought Tyco which has 11000 terabits of unused bandwidth. Also, there are other companies which provide cheap and reliable bandwidth. 3. Same as 2 4. I agree 5. I agree but thats what mirrors are for 6. Wrong...VSNL datacentre was here long before reliance .

abhay, incase you didnt understand the point of my post.... China has a hell lot more bandwidth than India(and they are expanding) hence they have a lot more broadband connections than India. It doesnt matter if the server is in the USA. If you have enough bandwidth then it will be as fast as any server in India. Though, inherently due to the physical proximity of Indian servers, the access to Indian sites will be a bit faster .

For all those who dont know about the samsung C100. I investigated this phone for 1 full month and found out that the first shipments of the cellphone had a software version which was buggy. The newest one is 1.65AS and its free of all those bugs. I love my C100

tanveer it takes time for hotmail to upgrade everybody's email . My hotmail just got upgraded yesterday. BTW I am using gmail and it rocks!

Cool! Guess what? I too use Linux *psst* rimweb is hosted on a Linux server

price is too high! Wont pay more than Rs.6k for a phone

I had gone in for DAPO in my mother's name back in 2003 since I wasnt earning. Since i found it too costly, my mum uses it now. I use Samsung C100 with MTNL Trump Prepaid card. Its a good value for money . Heres a pic of my phone(It drives the girls wild ):

can we have some more info about it please?

very well put!

whats GTRAN and ruim??

The effect is called "Memory Effect". My new digitcal camera has Ni-Mh batteries and the manual warns against this "Memory Effect". It is 100% safe to charge Ni-Cd/Li-ion batteries as often as you want. Ni-Cd/Li-ion batteries simply dont have the "memory effect".

deepu_vk: did you know the people at google only employ people with Ph.Ds so those guys have a lot of brains If they werent capable of giving you 1GB, unlike reliance, they wouldnt have .

Rs.2 per mb is bullsh*t. Actually download limits are crap >

I love my Mumbai! About me, Studying Computer Engineering and I looove Linux (and i dont like Reliance too much )

It would be cool if we had our own GSM forum. I got fed up of Reliance and am using Trump and quite satisfied with it. So basically I am a GSM user and an ex-RIM user. I still have the RIM phone but my mother uses it now.

I'm a DAPO user and R-world was bunch of crap since it started. The ringtones **** big time!

there is no harm in charging the battery while surfing. But i fail to understand how you can keep charging while using rconnect. But constant charging/discharging will reduce battery life significantly.

My account is pretty old too and I havent got 250MB as of now

wow! This is really cool. I was waiting to use evolution and now I finally can!

Just hope there isnt a download restriction