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The Hindu Business Line New Delhi, June 30 After banning Chinese telecom equipment, the Government has now put Blackberry devices, Skype services and Gmail under the security scanner. The Department of Telecom (DoT) will ask these companies to either ensure that data going through their networks be made available to security agencies in a readable format or face a ban from offering services in India. Concerns have also been raised about the data services being offered by Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications as security agencies are not able to snoop into these networks. “DoT will call the representatives of Research In Motion (manufacturer of Blackberry devices) and Skype and ask them to ensure that the content going through the telecom service providers is in readable format. They have to ensure that this is implemented within 15 days failing which services that do not allow lawful interception on a real-time basis would be blocked/banned,” said an internal Government note. Representatives of Google will be called to ensure that Gmail is also in a readable format. A Google spokesperson said that no communication on this subject has been received from the Government as yet. “We will comment if and when we get any letter from the DoT,” the spokesperson said. The Government has also decided to amend the IT laws to make it mandatory for such foreign companies that do not require a local licence to provide all the data required by Indian law enforcement agencies. Such a law would force companies such as Skype to give complete access to their networks or set up a local server in India to allow security agencies to track content. These decisions were taken at a recent meeting between the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Intelligence Bureau, the DoT and the National Technical Research Organisation — a scientific organisation under the National Security Advisor. The basic problem is that the data services being offered by these companies are highly encrypted because of which Indian security agencies are finding it difficult to keep a watch over the content being transmitted through them. Similar concerns were raised against Blackberry devices two years ago but the issue was put on the backburner. However, Government sources indicated that this time the concerns of the intelligence agencies will have to be addressed with the MHA pushing for a secure communication network.

Just got a TPLINK MR 3220 3g router. This is to share my Reliance netconnect ZTE AC2726 across 2 machines. All the settings have been set right as per the other SMC router thread on rimweb and connects fine.. The signal is 100% But the connection happens very rarely and then drops in some time The router gives a message that its "Identifying" or the modem is "Unplugged".. ZTE AC2726 is there in the compatibility list officially on the TPLink site as well.... Please help!! Thanks in advance.

Can this modem be activated with Reliance... Let me know guys. Specs Model MMX 300C EVDO Rev.A USB Modem Network CDMA 1X EVDO Rev A Frequency Band CDMA 1X EVDO Rev A Link

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Source India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued a directive that calls for the banning of the import of mobile phones made by Chinese manufacturers. The move comes after the Indian Home Ministry expressed concerns regarding the proliferation of Chinese handsets in India. They were worried about the spyware and malware threat that these handsets posed. The ministry was also worried that these phones will offer intelligence agencies from China, access to telecom networks in India. India has been facing "issues" with Chinese handsets for quite some time now. While it was the about all the unbranded, IMEI-less phones back in 2008-09, this time, even reputed manufacturers like ZTE and Huawei are affected by the latest ban. If that wasn't all, the DoT has also asked Indian mobile operators to cancel orders from Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers. This has come at a time when Chinese made devices were becoming a rage in India. Manufacturers like Micromax, Intex and Videocon too have some handsets that are manufactured by Chinese companies. As of now, there is uncertainly if these handsets also come under the ban. Interestingly, it will be manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson and the likes who would gain from this ban. However, these companies too have their manufacturing units in China. As of now, prima facie, it seems only Chinese companies will be affected by this blanket ban.

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This is an Android 2.1 device with the same processor as HTC's fabled Hero, a 3.2-inch capacitive QVGA display, and an ambition to sate the market for an affordable, socially connected Android smartphone. It's slated for a release in Europe and Asia early in the third quarter of this year For more details follow this link

Source A growing number of mobile operators are rolling out HD voice in their networks, allowing customers with compatible phones to make calls with better voice quality. The operators have been encouraged to invest in the technology by an increase in the number of compatible phone models, according to a report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). The improved voice quality is possible thanks to Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB), a speech compression algorithm that doubles the range of voice frequencies transmitted, resulting in sound comparable to FM radio according to French operator Orange. The technology has been a slow starter. Back in 2006 Ericsson and T-Mobile announced they had conducted the first trial of the technology in a commercial network. However, in the last couple of months the technology has started to take off, in large part thanks to Orange, which has been the biggest proponent so far. Orange has launched Mobile HD Voice in seven of the countries where it operates networks: Moldova, France, Armenia, the UK, Spain (in the Catalonia region), Belgium and Egypt (in Cairo). In 2011, Orange subscribers in Switzerland, the rest of Egypt, Luxembourg and the Dominican Republic will also be able to make calls, according to the operator. Other operators that have added HD voice in the last three months include SFR in France, Vipnet in Croatia, Tata DOCOMO in India and Megafon in Russia, according to GSA. Telstra in Australia and 3 in the UK, as well as a number of other unnamed operators, are testing the technology, GSA president Alan Hadden said. The growing interest among operators is helped by the availability of more phones that can make and receive HD voice calls: for the technology to work, both parties to the call must use phones and networks that support AMR-WB, according to Hadden. At first, the Nokia 6720c was the only phone that could offer the improved sound quality. However, Orange has now added the N8 and E5 from Nokia, the Samsung Omnia 7 and the HTC Desire HD to its line-up of compatible phones. The line-up also includes the 5230 and E72 from Nokia and Sony Ericsson's Elm, the company said. The addition of more phones, in combination with increasing awareness among operators and more public demonstrations that allow users to hear the difference should help HD voice take off on larger scale, Hadden said.

@Karthik.. The narrowband voice of public switched telephone network circuits operates between 300 Hz to 3.4 Khz. On the other hand, HD, or wideband, voice transmits a much wider spectrum, from 30 Hz to 7Khz which is possible only on 3G networks.. Once all operators move on to 3g, then they may look at licensing/implementing HD technology on their networks. Also note that the consonants f, s, m and n, collectively known as fricatives, are difficult to understand via narrowband but easy to distinguish with HD voice. The same is true for foreign accents and conversation that has to compete with background noise. HD voice offers double the voice quality for typical mobile calls versus mobile narrowband. And, this greatly improved quality is accomplished without increasing capacity.

Well u never know.. some developer out there may have developed a "Shaving app" also for android...

Requirements vary from person to person.. I use BB+ on prepaid on Rs.200/week plan.. I get 1GB for a week and on recharging towards the end of the 1 week validity; the unused data usage is carried over to the next week and so on.. It is a pain to recharge every week but I get 4gb for 800 bucks per month this way.. Took the prepaid decision after some billing issues on my postpaid BB+

Some more info... With AMR or AMR-WB, mobile radio systems are able to use available bandwidth as effectively as possible. For example, in GSM it is possible to dynamically adjust the speech encoding rate during a session so as to continuously adapt to the varying transmission conditions by dividing the fixed overall bandwidth between speech data and error protective coding. This enables the best possible trade-off between speech compression rate and error tolerance. To perform mode adaptation, the decoder (speech receiver) needs to signal the encoder (speech sender) the new mode it prefers. This mode change signal is called Codec Mode Request or CMR. Both codecs support voice activity detection (VAD) and generation of comfort noise (CN) parameters during silence periods. Hence, the codecs have the option to reduce the number of transmitted bits and packets during silence periods to a minimum. The operation of sending CN parameters at regular intervals during silence periods is usually called discontinuous transmission (DTX) or source controlled rate (SCR) operation. The AMR or AMR-WB frames containing CN parameters are called Silence Indicator (SID) frames. Read the RFC here for more info

@Satish.. ur case seems to be one of a kind I think. There seems something amiss in terms of communication or understanding between the webworld and the CAF processing backend. Can someone from our community cast some light on the escalation matrix at Reliance.

1 month.. Satish has mentioned "Webworld gives no response" Is this the same outlet where u purchased the data card. This much time to activate a postpaid connection is pathetic. If they were so bent on checking a customer's credentials before activating his postpaid connection, then they should have taken partial amount in advance, checked the address/documents and then activated the connection on full payment. Reliance's activation process may be different from what i have quoted above but what good is a process if doesn't serve the customer well!

on the Mpowertxt 369 can we use google talk and pull mail? One more thing, are there internet packs available from RCDMA for prepaid customers?

Note that this phone has GPS with maps loaded and has an OLED display maybe the cam at 2mp is a pitfall and yes.. wat about the OS.. is it the plain old chinese/korean java one...

3g.. gsm.. what about prepaid Reliance Broadband+ users like me.. I am an entry level user and need to pay Rs.250 for 300MB. Dont they even care about their prepaid RCDMA data customers..?? MTS has come out with virtually unlimited data for 1k long back and reliance still doesnt have a plan competing with the same..

Its good... Atleast people will not keep changing numbers frequently cuz getting numbers will become a time-consuming process..

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Rajan ji.. Virtualbox's development may stop in the future. The other alternative we have is Xen, but we have to note the point that Hitesh is a novice unix user and we cant push too much on him. Xen is a virtualization platform which needs a good command on the shell rather than the GUI.. As a startin point, let him start with a GUI driven linux virtualization platform.. then maybe he will move in to the deep deep world of unix and opensource..

Dont even worry Hitesh bhai.. Will help you.. and thats what Rimweb is all about!! So go ahead and shoot ur doubts/clarifications on this post or PIM me and will take u thru step by step. To start off with.. below are a few steps 1. Download Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx") from http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download (Choose 32-bit/64-bit) based on ur server's configuration. (Also let me know if ur server is a single processor or multiprocessor machine) 2. Download Virtualbox for Ubuntu at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads 3. Installing Ubuntu on the server is pretty straightforward.. in fact its easier than Windows.. just select the default disk slice (partition) sizes. Please message me or reply to this post so that we can go forward with the virtual machine configuration process. Cheers!!

The server can be installed with any Unix flavor (Linux/Solaris) with virtualization support (Xen or Virtualbox) We can have several virtual machines running on the server, each installed with Windows and the respective apps. Ofcourse this needs unix knowledge but trust me this pays off.. The thin clients can be Win7 or XP.. or even Linux.. all the users need to do is take a terminal session (RDP) to the virtual server IP's on the server and that should be it. Reason am pushing on Unix is stability... Windows can come nowhere near it.. Cheers!!!

Chinese phones are good VFM except their OS... why dont they inject the opensource Android into these phones and take on the biggies.. Processing power may be a challenge but technology has answered several such questions before..

Waiting for unlimited on Broadband+ like MTS-999... I am actually already thinking of jumping onto MTS cuz ppl in my circle are singing praises about the speed and signal..

Source NEW DELHI: It's not without reason that the security agencies continue to eye Huawei with suspicion. For, the Chinese firm’s R&D facility in Bangalore operates with a secrecy so intense that a larger part of its premises are completely out of bounds for Indians. At Huawei Technologies’ R&D facility in Bangalore, only the ground and first floors are reportedly accessible to Indian staff. The floors beyond can be accessed only by the Chinese executives and managers, a top intelligence official told ET. Though Chinese form only a minuscule percentage of Huawei India’s staff at the Bangalore facility, it is they who enjoy exclusive and unrestricted access to R&D office’s top floors. There is not much information on what equipment is tested and what goes on in the ‘Chinese-only’ parts of the building. But intelligence agencies have noticed how Chinese employees of Huawei often have an extended stay in Bangalore for months together. Though attempts were made by security agencies a few months ago to probe the purpose behind these long-drawn business trips by the Chinese staff of Huawei to Bangalore, they were told curtly that the Chinese were staying on to learn and master English!