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There are 6 new posts in "WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India" Airtel Launches 16MBPS DSL BroadBand - What About Tata Tele’s 100 MBPS Connection Then?Bharti Airtel has introduced a 16 Mbps broadband connection which it claims is the fastest wireline broadband on DSL in the country. This service, powered by Airtel's Carrier Ethernet Network, will be initially available in the cities of Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore with phased roll-out to additional cities of Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata. Customers can gain access to 16 Mbps broadband by choosing from 2 Tariff Plans –
What do you think of the rates? Given the speed and bandwidth I actually find the price appealing, I must add here that this is partly because of the surprisingly big bills that MTNL has served me at times for far lesser data access. Anyway, I don’t want this post to be a comparison debate at the moment. The intriguing part about the X MBPS speeds that a lot of providers launch is that they are mega bits per second and not mega bytes, so the download speed that you get in general less than because of the conversions that apply from bits to bytes. I am pretty sure that is the same case with this plan from Airtel. So don’t expect to download a 16MB file in a second if you get this connection, it might still take 4 or 5..which actually isn’t bad to think.
It is interesting to note however that, Tata Teleservices had announced a 100 MBPS broadband access last month. The fairly unheralded piece of news spoke about how Tata Teleservices has become the first operator to introduce the more advanced wide area ethernet technology in place of the more common digital subscriber line (DSL) based technology for broadband. So there you go, Airtel isn’t lying when it says it is the fastest with 16MBPS in DSL providers. The Tata connection however comes at a hefty 10,000 price tag every month though. In the announcement then, TTML said it has already connected around 20,000 buildings in Mumbai with wide area ethernet technology. Now all this speed is great, but will the connection maintain its integrity and give me a seamless experience? Will any of these providers give me an experience where I wouldn’t need to expereince their customer service at all? I think that’s the crux of any provider these days. Speed and who comes first with it is good enough only for bloggers to write about, but giving a hasslefree connection and giving it in even the most remote regions of our country is the bigger point in hand. Related Posts Also Check Out: IRCTC Propelling E-commerce in IndiaIn India online ticketing has been the most successful force in online E-commerce industry. This also supplemented by the fact that today online travel industry constitutes 78% of the total E-commerce industry in India. IRCTC -playing an important role? Its estimated gross annual sales of Rs.3400 crore constitutes 1/3rd of the total ecommerce industry worth Rs.9000 crores in India. It has been witnessing a healthy annual growth of 100% in no. of tickets sold through online inititatives which stands at 45million tickets FY08. It owns one of the largest agent networks for selling travel products in India by way of their various inititaives like cyber cafe chains, authorized distributors. Its tickets are also being sold in association with other travel portals like yatra, cleartrip etc. IRCTC-potential for Domino effect on E-commerce? IRCTC currently levies additional charges for i-tickets which ranges from rs.10 to rs.40 and for e-tickets it ranges from Rs.40 to Rs.60. The charges, if these charges are reduced or abolished it could increase penetration and induce more people into E-commerce. The service is mostly used by agents who charge additional commission apart from charges levied by IRCTC from their customers this again limits the penetration level and if the users are given more payment avenues it could propel many to go for direct transactions. Online ticketing has always been the entry point for first time E-commerce users thus making more payment avenues available through association with commercial banks may help in getting more traction. If railways also allow booking of rail cargos and other railway services on a large scale then it can definitely garner more traction in terms of higher transaction size and remove bottlenecks at the same time attracting SME to the fold. Other services-holding potential: INDIA POST -another government affiliated organization currently delivers 1,575 crore mails every year linking every nook and corner of the country through a network of 1,54,149 post offices and 5,64,701 letter boxes. The government owned services like India post if implements E-commerce in a serious way then India could definitely remove the barriers of E-commerce industry. Related PostsAlso Check Out: Exclusive: YelloJobs Shut Indian Operations - Looking To Get Acquired?You are reading it here first: We have got information from several reliable sources informing us that Yellojobs India which had its office in Noida is shutting all operations and laid off all the staff. We tried calling on the helpline numbers for employers and candidates given on the site but both are switched off. We have tried calling their PR representative as well but have not been able to get through. We spoke to the ex-GM of YelloJobs Vikramjit Singh Sahaye who informed us that he had quit Yellojobs in end of February and moved on to join elsewhere. He refused to comment on the status of yellojobs to us. But as per our information Yellojobs referral model never really took off in a big way and they were in deep trouble since the recession hit the indian economy around october last year. We are also told that during the same time their mother company yello media was looking to raise funds but failed to do so and hence the lack of funding has caused them to pull the plug. Our sources also updated us that most of the employees had not been paid salaries since 3 months and a shut down was eminent. Yellojobs entered India through a partnership with NDTV media for NDTV jobs and a year later decided to discontinue the partnership and go on its own. Since then the job market started to tank due to recession and even bigwigs like naukri stated that a slowdown in the jobs market is eminent. YelloJobs is a part of Yello media a bangkok based firm which owns classifieds across Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and India. We have been told that Yellojobs is looking for a suitor to buy out its India business and has currently stopped all operations in India. Whether they are managing the website from out of India in the meanwhile isn’t confirmed. Related PostsAlso Check Out: Nokia To Get Into Netbooks - Android As OS For Netbooks?Earlier Brian Caulfield argues on Forbes that Nokia could kill the netbook, pointing at the company’s flagship device N97, though the convergence of mobile computing and phone is finally coming into existence, it doesn’t seem quite like N97 will kill netbook business for the simple reason that a user need not want to carry his mobile computing device in his pocket. The latest news is that Finnish Mobile phone manufacturer is actually considering venturing into Netbook business, what makes the news all the more interesting is Nokia is more likely to run it’s mobile operating system Symbian on the netbooks. “We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging,”CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told broadcaster YLE when questioned about Nokia’s aspirations towards the lap. “We are looking very actively also at this opportunity”. In another news on WSJ, Hewlett Packard, the largest maker of PCs and a major Windows partner is testing Google’s Android operating system on netbooks. “We want to assess the capability Android may have for the computer and communications industries, and so we are studying it,” said Satjiv Chahil, a vice president of HP’s PC division as quoted on WSJ and reportedly DELL and Taiwan’s Asustek, leading seller of netbooks are also considering making an android version of netbooks. Google, a company now synonymous with search is already in competition with Microsoft’s Office suite with Google apps and now Google’s efforts pushing Android on to netbooks put’s it in direct competition with Windows. Market research firm NPD group Inc. estimates that Windows comes on more than 90% of new netbooks. While Microsoft earns more than 60% of it’s revenues with Windows. Google which doesn’t charge for android hopes to justify its development effort by driving more Web use from mobile devices. Mobile-facts, a community-based company has earlier tried porting Android onto Asus EEEPC 1000H and found that apart from initial hitches with network and sound,web browser and music player were running fine and though the Asus screen is approximately 5 times bigger than G1 screen, there was no issue in screen adaptation and Android did the adaptation automatically. The linux version of netbooks didn’t quite seem to take off yet as they didn’t easily work with popular programs and peripherals like printers and though android could face the same issues if Google puts its resources we probably could see a platform shift. Related PostsAlso Check Out: The Gen-Next Social Applications - Are You Working On One?There have been talks about various companies designing new social applications for its consumers. There have been various posts on the web talking about the changes in social media marketing in the future with the help of social applications and tools. If you are the smart dude, times are ripe for you to look into the future and develop an application right away which beats competition. One such Gen-Next Social Application is the collaboration between Adobe Systems Inc. and Facebook to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform. The ActionScript® 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform is strategically being made to be an open source library supporting all APIs which also includes Facebook Connect. The open source developers can look into the source code here and initiate their jobs straightaway. I see it to be a good move on part of both the companies. Ethan Beard, Director of Platform Marketing, Facebook says, “Our vision is to empower the world’s developers to make the Web more social with Facebook Platform and through Facebook Connect. With our official support of the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform, our innovative community of developers can more easily use the Adobe Flash Platformto create the next generation of applications that will allow users to engage with the people they care about in even more expressive ways“. Other details about features, availability etc. can be located here. Sure, Social Applications will change the future of Social Media; but how soon is the questions. There are evidences in form os companies such as ON24 which are clearly defining the extent to which Social Media can have a positive impact on our lives in the future by coming up with an extensive solution for all virtual events. I am awaiting the next gen social apps and my wait can actually be termed very optimistic because there are so many people in India who don’t understand Social Media. But, then this slide show makes my belief strong about the emergence of something radically innovative in the near future. If you are working on a next gen social media application then we would love to know about it. Contact us to keep is updated. Related PostsAlso Check Out: Google Partners HT Media - Launches Google Election CentreWell we have blogged about the various online initiatives leveraging the upcoming elections but here comes the big one by Google. Google has partnered the likes of Association for Democratic Reforms, HT Media Limited, Indicus Analytics, the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, the Liberty Institute, and PRS Legislative Services to launch what would be a called an information website for the upcoming elections. Google calls it the Google India Elections Centre. Google India Elections Centre is available in both English and Hindi and aims at providing the following services to prospective voters: The website will allow users to..
Yahoo too recently launched its election portal and this move by google has come just at the the right time to counter Yahoo. Election is probably the largest public event that comes once in every 5 years and this time around as the internet userbase is fairly large (compared to 5 years ago) most sites believe that the elections might be opportunity to get more users come online and engage on the web. Related PostsAlso Check Out: More Recent Articles |
Airtel has quickly adopted an aggressive marketing strategy online to go with this news. I was completely out of the web for a week, so I don’t know when exactly did this site - impatientones.com go live, but that’s a new microsite by Airtel to promote their fast broadband service, and is running banners promoting it on high profile sites.
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