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Helpful error messages – Airtel

June 15th, 2008 · Comments · General

Ah. Of course. Thanks. I will do just that … wtf??

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MTNL is twice as stingy as BSNL in ADSL data caps

August 6th, 2005 · Comments · General

Take a look at the following table showing the difference between similar ADSL broadband plans of BSNL and MTNL – the two public sector telecom companies of India. MTNL only operates in the cities of Delhi and Mumbai, while BSNL operates every else. Delhi and Mumbai are probably the two largest commercial cities of the [...]

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Pathetic Tata Indicom Broadband service in Delhi

August 1st, 2005 · Comments · General

Seems that my blog is turning out to be a general gripe column. I don’t think I should be blamed for it though. Our country is full of technology companies who are only out to fleece people. When you use the services of a company who considers quality of customer service as a variable business [...]

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Biting the “broadband” bullet again – Tata Broadband in Delhi

June 10th, 2005 · Comments · General

After my terrible experience with Sify broadband early this year, I decided to stick to dialup – Reliance rconnect over FWP actually. But the idea of keeping a phone busy all day doesn’t appeal to me much even if the plan I have (Platinum) doesn’t have download caps or per minute call charges.
So today I [...]

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I am a victim of the Sify Broadband scam in Delhi

March 5th, 2005 · Comments · General

Here is the letter I sent to Sify contact points in Delhi yesterday. It chronicles my Sify broadband experience here in Delhi.

From: Sandip Bhattacharya <sandip AT lug-delhi.org>
To: Sanjay Bhandari <sanjay_bhandari @sifycorp.com>
, Puneet Sharma <puneet_sharma @sifycorp.com>
, anamika <bbcoordinator_delhi @sifycorp.com>
Cc: India Gii <india-gii AT cpsr.org>
Subject: Official complaint [...]

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Moving on to Sify (not)broadband

February 25th, 2005 · Comments · General

Inspite of my contempt for their loathsome Internet fleecing plans, I had to reluctantly sign up for a Sify cable internet plan today. Cost me a neat pile for installation and pre-payment for one month. The most painful part of this transition is going back to a NAT-ted private IP. This means no more gnomemeeting, [...]

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