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Are there any Tri SIM OMH phones also which can use OMH SIM for broadband ?

well this is good news for folks who actually were stuck with their blogs on live spaces. they get a modern and more powerful system now.

i can only hope that microsoft's own blogs are migrated to wordpress.com because they are pretty bad.

some of them are not even accessible unless you login with your hotmail account!

It's a start - even in many western countries there are FUP limits (or even hard data caps) of these values and we pay much more. Mine is a prime example. The excuse used in my country is that we are geographically isolated. Whoopdi-doo - that may be true, but it also so happens that unlike India we have a single cable landing in the country, with that cable (as well as ALL the last mile) owned by the same company. A good situation in some aspects (leasing cables gives instant ability to provide service anywhere in the country), but it's bad for pricing, since the whole situation is more or less monopolized.

While India is similarly isolated, it has at least 9. However, bandwidth costs roughly the same at a wholesale level. 25GB costs around Rs250 (for me... much less for them). Last mile can easily chew up the same or more in some cities. So there goes Rs500. Of course, since the plan is "unlimited", we can safely assume that many users will use an additional 25GB @ 256k which brings the total to Rs750. Factor in 30% for corporate taxes (NOT VAT), the license fee (6%), subsidies for variations in usage and a profit margin (a tidy 30% on top of that) and somehow I think I just justified Airtel's prices, unreasonable as they might be.

I do agree that there is A LOT of confusion in the market. It's very difficult to tell up from down even between plans at the same ISP, sometimes even for me. So hopefully some player (who shall remain nameless) will succeed in... rocking the boat.

I'd love to have access to someone elses infrastructure - to provide a full-speed service on their cables just to prove my point: none of this bollocks unlimited with stupid FUPs, just pay as you go at some reasonable rate. That way Rs1700 would buy you 100GB @16mbit/s instead of 25+25 as illustrated, and then potentially a 1-2mbit/s "unlimited" plan could be offered for Rs1k with an FUP of say 50GB or Rs2k with a much better FUP of say 150GB (It's a start, and more in-line with offerings you'd find overseas).

Although it would be nice, the TRAI/DoT can not really help you unless you citizens force some legislative changes. Get Broadband speeds redefined to at least 1 or 2 mbit/s. You're a freaking democracy, damnit - use your given powers for crying out loud instead of crying about it. Learn from other democracies.

The French, Spanish and Italians go on strike when they don't like something. MTNL workers threaten to go on strike when there is the threat of "restructuring" in the organization. You all need to change who represents you in these legislative organizations. Protest your asses off and VOTE WITH YOUR WALLETS. If they can organize 3-million to march in Mumbai after a bunch of terror attacks, you can surely organize that many to march against FUPs.

i got another call today.

the response was positive in nature.

they can give me the universal remote. but they have not decided the pricing of it!

i am supposed to get another call tomorrow with the pricing details.

this is some progress after so much effort just to get a freaking remote.

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i do hope that they do not charge more than Rs. 200 for it. i mean i was actually promised by the installation guys back in feb 2009 that the universal remote would be provided for free. but they never offered it by themselves.

Airtel's revised plans suggest a minimum of 512kbit/s for the first few GB (up to 64kbyte/s). Once that amount is finished, then getting 16kbyte/s download speed is all you should get on that plan. If you're getting more than that, then congratulations.

haha. well. i seriously want to take that risk. to save around 600-700 rupees per month. but not until i have ANY alternative :D

30 -35 kbps MAX

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Man this hathway has started this shit all over again...

beware friends...Hathway will reduce ur speed to half n wun even tell u...I experienced it. n that too twice

hathway has started its nakra again...

Reduced my speed to half...annnoyed wid it now..pain in the ***
I need to switch!!

3G sim is separtately available,but if you have existing 2G BSNL sim card ,that also you can convert to 3G facility..You can use this sim card parallaly both in mobile and Datacard and no need of separte sims.

And also while you travel or roam and if 3G is not available in that area,the sim will automatically detect EDGE and your Datacard will detect EDGE only and the speed will be less also

To know more about OMH symbol, please see the link http://wiki.cdg.org/w/images/f/f4/OM...Guidelines.pdf