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Slow internet driving you nuts? Here is how your service provider is fleecing you
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 01, 2016
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filed under:
Broadband,
Telecom,
TRAI
June 20 was World Wifi Day — an occasion to celebrate speedy, reliable internet connections. India, although a major internet market and the fastest growing now, is a very odd place for such celebration. Average internet speed in India is lower than all other countries in BRICs and lower than most other emerging economies.
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Telecom
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News & Media
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Call drops: Dealing with the menace or just shifting goal posts?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 01, 2016
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filed under:
Telecom,
TRAI
It is nothing short of an irony that the world’s second largest mobile user market that boasts of being the world’s fastest growing economy is plagued by poor infrastructure and overloaded networks to an extent that many callers are cut off even before they can finish a sentence. The fault in India’s much-acclaimed telecom revolution is a questioning, frequent phenomenon called “call drops”. There have been several signature campaigns and media pressure demanding that the government and telecom companies get their heads together to fix this raging demon of a problem. However, all they have been treated with is lip service and nothing more.
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Telecom
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News & Media
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TRAI Free Data paper: Paytm to Hike, the responses from other companies
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 09, 2016
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filed under:
Telecom
Here's a look at responses of other players like Paytm, Hike Messenger, Nasscom, Centre for Internet Society to TRAI's paper.
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Telecom
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News & Media