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Continuing from where unwantedmails left off, read this in Rediff today! Reliance plans a Walmart!!

Hathway has a 500MB per month download limit on this 750 bucks package. For a heavy user it still doesn't make sense.

This appeared in The Economic Times today RIP, National Long Distance TIMES NEWS NETWORK [TUESDAY, AUGUST 03, 2004 04:00:59 AM] Economic Times An emphatic No should be the government’s answer to the petition filed by Reliance and Bharti seeking to stop direct inter-circle connectivity between cellular operators. The demand is not only blatantly anti-consumer, but also disruptive since it seeks to alter the natural progression of the telecom industry. Telecom companies must accept obsolescence of technology as well as of commercial practice as a genuine business risk. Direct connectivity between circles, without necessarily going through a National Long Distance (NLD) licensee, is the logical evolution of the present, stunted, unified access licensing regime to a true unified licence, under which a licensee can offer any communication service once allotted the right to use a portion of the frequency spectrum, the only finite resource in telecom. Reliance was happy to argue for changing the regulatory regime in tune with technical change till it secured unified access licensing and became a mobile operator on par with the original mobile licensees. Reliance and Tata now oppose a true unified licensing regime. And Bharti, which earlier opposed Reliance becoming a mobile operator, now has joined hands with it to protect the National Long Distance (NLD) turf. Companies are entitled to play games but not those that fleece the consumer. It is unreasonable to expect cellular operators spanning several circles to route their inter-circle traffic through a specified NLD provider when they could use their own infrastructure. Cellular operators should be free to hand over calls to one another under appropriate inter-connect agreements. The argument that the routing of cellular operators’ calls through leased lines would retard growth of infrastructure too is untenable. All it means is that the present distinction between infrastructure providers, whose leased lines cellular players use, and NLD operators would disappear. Why should consumers shed any tears and shell out money for an artificial segment of telecom rendered obsolete? It is true that NLD service providers paid licence fees — Rs 100 crore — along with bank guarantees. The government could consider refunding a part of the fee. It also makes sense to scrap the access deficit charge tagged on to call charges and fund access deficit out of the universal service obligation fund.

I've used MTNL and now I use a Reliance FWP as well as a FWT and let me tell you that Reliance works out cheaper because it's faster than MTNL and more stable too.

I'm facing a similar problem on a FWT in Delhi. However no problem on a FWP!! Wonder why?

so, i guess i'm clean at a 0% warn level?

hi guys! i am low down on the list with a 0% warn level.

So, Hutch scheme works only for you, friend. What about all those who aren't Accenture employees? Hutch is no better for them. I guess he was speaking about General corporate connection.. He might have just mentioned his company name instead Hey, what about us, non-corporate types??!!

So, Hutch scheme works only for you, friend. What about all those who aren't Accenture employees? Hutch is no better for them.

bellamkonda, you work for Accenture?

My observation is that this happens mostly during the day. Things get better at night.

Prawin, FWP means FIXED Wireless Phone. FIXED as in one SDCA. It's not a mobile. So, it won't work in any other city outside your SDCA.

Better start looking at a hard disk upgrade, maniktushar.

I never mentioned fees. You don't pay surcharge if you're buying min Rs 400 worth.

Whoa, TRAI has only recommended. Let a new govt come in. There's a lot to be done. Changes in duty, taxes, etc. Certain things to be done by states. Legislations to be pushed thru. It should take some time before we see something concrete.

I ony hope they get their billing right!

hey, but what if i want to call from here? Reliance is pretty expensive then.

It seems certain things never change!

No experience of data but heard lot of billing problems! So, at least there, not much difference

Reliance has had so many plans, it's confusing for everybody. Including Reliance Wonder why their ISD is so expensive!

Get a petro card from any of the credit card companies and there's no surcharge. You also get Turbopoints. Very simple.

You could use Spybot S&D. It's available at http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download Enjoy!

Spymac is also facing problems. Not easy handling a huge influx of 'subscribers'. So the story is the same, Reliance ho ya Spymac ho!

Just to tell you that the TRAI has asked operators to make 172XXX numbers accessible and given them 45 odd days in which to implement it. You can get details on the TRAI site Eskay

it ain't made in china, buddy. it's a full-fledged palm based pda phone. could be priced cheaper tho'.