Telecom

Rural Mobile Telecom:
Rajya SabhaGovernment have set a target to achieve 80 million rural subscribers by 2010. Department of Information Technology has embarked upon a programme of setting up 100,000 Community Service Centres (CSCs) to cater to e-governance requirements of 600,000 villages in the country in a phased manner.
Government have launched a scheme, through Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), for provision of support for setting up and managing 631 infrastructure sites spread over 70 districts in North-Eastern states for providing mobile services including other Wireless Access Services (WAS) in the specified rural and remote areas, where there is no existing fixed wireless or mobile coverage. The Government has also approved a scheme for providing support for establishing 100,000 Broadband,Internet enabled, Common Services Centres (CSCs) in rural areas of the country including that of North-Eastern States. Department of Information Technology will implement the scheme in a public private partnership mode.The support for the North-East for this scheme has been pegged at 75% of the normative value as against national value of 33per cent.
This information was given by Dr.Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply to a question by Shrimati Shobhana Bhartia and Shrimati Supriya Sule.

Not many. IBM laid down enough cable for ample growth. I’d say the the biggest challenges are a lack of decent infrastructure and the fact that half of the people in the country don’t have water or food.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238618/Telecom-firms-criticise-plan-Stasi-like-checks-phone-email.html?ITO=1708&referrer=yahoo
in fact, why dont we all say " no more " to this useless government.
i dont see any incandescent rage .
hal ill agree to differ with you and can only say im pleased to have never met you.

Well it’s about time people in Britain woken up to the Lib/Lab/Con Stasi Marxism that has existed for years and years now. As long as people keep voting for this liberal elitism. nothing will ever change here in the UK. The telecoms companies are run by the same elite lot unfortunately and they all owe favours to the govt, and even if they did say NO to the govt, they would be threatened with losing their operators licence.

What are we going to do about it? Oh, we’ll just keep voting for them and and using the services all the same.

i believe career opportunities will always be large for IT Networking and telecom.

As the world and technology advances, so do jobs pertaining to it.

hi guys/ girls.
i have a flair for setting up a business, but am unsure of what to do for a startup! i am keen for a software setup else something to do with telecom / infrastructure. I am a bachelors in engineering degree holder & my shortfalls are not having an MBA – thats what i perceive. If you have ideas or are interested in similar concepts – guide me.

You will also find a great deal of information from the Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov

While they give you plenty of advice and free tools, you will have to do all the work. I highly suggest you hire a business plan writer to do the research, projected financial information, market analysis, executive summary and the overall writing of a detailed business plan.

For business plan advice and resources check out:
http://www.businessplantoday.com

Rubbish in all areas particularly Technical Support and Customer Service. Last week I was promiced they would ring back in 24 hours 168 hours later I’m still waiting despite having complained by email on more than one occasion !

well, talk talk have kept on promising me they’ll give me a connection but i gave up after they couldn’t get me ANY internet after a 6 months wait!
They promised they’ll phone me back umpteen times, they promised the broadband would come on at "6 tomorrow" about ten times… in the end I just refused to believe them, I am usually a trustful person but now I simply won’t trust anyone from India, bunch of no good liers, the lot of them.

Tiscali worked out ok when I was with them, but I’d like to mention PIPEX for ripping me off 60 quid. I had made sure I was going for someone that didn’t have a yearly contract as I knew I had to move out within 6 months and their trick was that you don’t have a yearly contract, only a monthly one BUT you couldn’t leave them before a year is over. How bad does it get????
Now they changed the website to make it seem less obvious but the old one is still cached at archive.org for all to see.

Anyway, if you are looking to change, this was useful
http://gsx1.com/CompareBroadband.html
good luck

Was going to spend some time in Bangkok. So just wanted to know which mobile phone service provider and dsl internet service provider I should get when i get there. Thanks.
PS: Would appreciate if url to the recommended company’s webpage were also included.

Advanced Info Services (AIS) is Thailand’s largest mobile phone service provider and works very well in Bangkok, their 1 2 Call prepaid service is a good way to go if you don’t want to sign any contracts. They have many different plans, so it’s good to ask about them before you buy a sim card. Dtac is the #2 provider and also is good, both providers offer good discounts within their networks which may influence your decision as to which company to use. TOT and True are the biggest ISP’s, and are also the two largest wired phone services in Bangkok. You often have to use an ISP depending on who supplies your phone service, I have a TOT phone line and True Internet services are not available to me, only TOT. That’s not always the case, you have to check depending on where you live. My broadband TOT service (1 MB) is just okay with occasional drops and is sometimes hard to connect, I know some True users that are very happy and some that aren’t.
http://www.ais.co.th/en/index.html
http://www.tot.co.th/
http://www.truecorp.co.th/eng/products/index.jsp

I need to know more about the telecom structure in Mombasa Kenya.
Any Information will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Cellular phone provider are Safaricom (the largest network) and Zain. Orange is just coming up recently, mostly in Nairobi, and Telkom Kenya is the main fixed line provider.

Which one has economical tariff plans for unlimited usage?

MTNL is a best one in Mumbai

I would like to communicate with an English speaking manager from Saudi Telecoms mobile division

i am from KSA.
if your still interested…
i will help find you some phone Numbers