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Have u seen their unlimited plans, they r useless,& overcharged triple times the reliance as if people r gonna take them. These bsnl guys r senseless.:hysterical:

.:COMBO BB Unlimited:. :readtherules:

BSNL already have 2 Mbps and 4 Mbps unlimited plans without Fair Usage Policy. But it will cost you a fortune. Check here

BBG Combo Unlimited 9000 gives 2 Mbps Unlimited.

BBG Combo Unlimited 15000 gives 4 Mbps Unlimited.

Source : .:COMBO BB Unlimited:.

Don't buy Airtel. Their customer support is bad and website doesn't work when you try to recharge your account online or when you are trying to opt for add-on packs or discontinue add-on packs. They subscribe you to add-on packs without asking you and you end up paying for channels you never watched. I am speaking from over 1 year experience with 2 connections that I have in my home and in my office.

I also facing same login problem, i get error code" 9998:[1164009]customer does not exist "
I complaind via email, i got replaid by phone call & email. I get this reply " we regret to inform you that electronic program guide Service on Mobile is currently not operational from our end and we shall notify to all customer once this feature is launched. "

Macro Sports, Sunehri Market, Atta, Sector-27, Noida
Its very close to Sector-18 Metro station.

2 more shops in sector 18

Baluja Sports

Baluja Sports noida - Google Maps

Another one is Champ Sports
It's in basement below the Bata Shop in Sector-18


Did you tried Jhandewalan cycle market? Fitness equipment shops are also there

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There is one more sports shop in Jaipuria Plaza Sector-26 Noida. It has Cosco machines.

Hello guyz i am here to share my thoughts in difference between these both, i.e the intel wifilink vs the intel pro wireless.

Though the pro wireless by intel is discontinued, i would like to tell u that pro wireless was good for long distance wireless transmission, and would have less dead spots than the intel's new wifilink.

Here's how i experienced: My sis who was having an HP laptop had an pro wireless 3945 ag wireless, and me who had sony vaio with wifi link 4965 agn.

I was really shocked to know that my sis's hp laptop with intel pro could easily connect to an unsecured public wifi and was boosting upto 200 kb/sec transfer rate.

Wheareas my laptop which had wifi link 4965 agn could not even connect to that same network.

I was really upset when i came to know that my sister's laptop had better range for farther distance.

So i conclude that wifi links which we get now in the market r poor for long distance than the pro wireless which we used to get previously.

Pls. Ask DTH service providers to give 'energy efficiency ratings' (BEE Star Energy Efficiency Labels) for all the STBs.

manually search for 3G network

India should win - India's bowling is bad, but feel 2 in 2 would be too tough for Ireland - the only way India may struggle is that they may get influenced by past games & try to aim too high & miss out.

Your modulation is set to ADSL2+

Change it to G.dmt, save/reboot and give it a shot.

Let us know how it goes.

Unless - someone tells the SAfrican players that the match is cancelled & they dont turn up, they should win...

Voted Australia - but they are weak against spin, feel team batting first will win

for me it does not open login page when you connect to the tikona1800 network :) just redirects to a generic tikona page

May be i'll go for Reliance :(

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Nop!! it's my pic , I took it at KFC in JM Road, Pune

Friends,

I am on ULD Combo 1350 - my speed was recently upgraded from 2 mbps to around 8 mbps, which this sounds great, but along with the bandwidth upgradation, my downstream value has decreased significantly.

Following are my stats:-

SNR Margin 15.0db 25.0db dB
Line Attenuation 12.5db 6.5db dB
Loss of Signal 0 0
CRC Errors 43 0
Data Rate 8128 Kbps 480 Kbps kbps
Modulation - Multi (ADSL)

While switching to ADSL2+ gets the SNR to around 28, but the connection loses stability. With G.dmt, the SNR is pretty much around the same as Multi [15dB DN]

Earlier when my downstream data rate was at 1996 kbps, the SNR used to be at around 33 - 35 dB

Due to this low SNR, I am facing random disconnections. Not too frequent but there are some disconnections.

So what do you all think - is an SNR of 15db okay for an 8mbps connection or should I call up BSNL and ask them to reduce the data rate to 4096 kbps

Kindly advise, thanks!

Try your luck and report here. :D

When I get them, I will post them.

When I get them, I will post them.

I think you are absolutely right. It is time for me to port out rather than waiting for Tata to be professional with their business.

I don't think I want to go to Uninor or Loop or any of these A Raja's companies. I don't want to support a corrupt system. I also don't want to go to BSNL either after the harrowing experience I have had with getting broadband installed at my home. (Made me run around for days before someone came to install)

I think it leaves Airtel, Vodafone & Idea for me as options in the GSM arena. Since I have to travel for my business, which network has the overall better coverage & decent call quality in Karnataka? I would need decent EDGE coverage as well (3G would be nice but it is quite expensive now. I used to pay somewhat less in US & Europe)

PS: Just one final observation on Tata. I am shopping for a car & recently went to a local Tata Motors showroom. Their cars are nice & VFM, but their fit & finish is below international standards. Big panel gaps, ill fitting plastics & a general lack of cohesion. It seems Tata gets 99% of the stuff right in all it's ventures but fails in the finesse department.

is there a way to unlockit ? i got a USB thing and i really would like to unloc it and use it for another provider instead getting lot of those

Just call CC & they will do it.
Or you may select "true choice packages" instead of "all packages" in the web portal. Then you may change your package.

Maybe he did not get the free subscription for grand package 1 month and hd gold for 2 months. Works out almost 450 anyways.

Dear All,

If any body knows phone number of SUN DTH service engg, please post here. Last time, one of my frnd Re-installed with direct contact of service engg. he took only 150. if we contact shops.. they are asking 300.

So, please let me know the phone number of service engg SUN DTH.

Thanks

If 3G auctions were decently priced, this kinda space-age pricing would not have come to users.

Giving 20kbps after free usage is like saying, you don't need to use internet if you can consume 14.5GB.
you can fill login form on any popular site and go to college and come back and most probably you would be logged in :-)

I am not planning to buy it, i just want to make some comparisons......do they include HDMI cable in it??

Yes I too suggest CCleaner, its excellent free product.

if u talk abt update of android versions then samsung low end mobiles are same as they too dont get update instead a new model with similar specification is launched

well with mediafire we can resume downloading using IDM. I always use it

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the best thing is Go to option in IDm then to file types now write (00*) without brackets now it will capture links from mediafire with file extension of(001,002,003 etc). Also enable advance integration so that it can work efficently.

Same here.

Download speed are not going beyond 65KB inspite of 1 mbps earlier it used to be 125KB whats the bug ?

Source

India’s Free Press Illusion
October 26, 2010
By Abraham George

India proudly proclaims itself the world’s largest democracy. But a lack of real press freedom will ultimately hamper economic growth.

India likes to tout itself as the world’s largest democracy—a place of political freedom where all citizens have the right to free speech. Neighbouring China, in contrast, is typically characterized as a society that’s partly shut, with authoritarian rulers who work to curtail press freedom and political rights.

While both countries have experienced rapid growth over the past two decades, Western observers have often argued that India’s freer society will in the long run give it the edge in sustaining its economic growth. Yet in the past 20 years, China has been able to reduce its poverty rate from more than 60 percent to less than 20 percent, while half of India’s population is still living on less than $1.20 a day (and almost three-quarters live on less than $2 per day).

So why hasn’t democratic India been able to match Communist China’s ability to bring about a more economically equitable society? Freedom is supposed to stimulate thought and creativity, but it’s clear that it doesn’t necessarily assure equity. In addition, the benefits of India’s rapid economic growth are confined to a relatively smaller segment of the population—about 30 percent, or 350 million people—while the rest are either spectators or just hoping that the trickle-down effects will eventually improve their lot in life.

There are numerous and complex reasons for this. India compares itself to an elephant that takes steady but slow steps forward, and its defenders argue that its democratic system simply doesn’t permit quick policy decisions. This fails, though, to explain why the country is experiencing a rapidly widening gap between the rich and the poor, and why so many are being left behind.

While there are myriad reasons for India lagging behind its neighbour, there’s one explanation that comes up again and again in any discussion of India’s poverty—poor governance. India’s political system favours corruption and inefficiency at all levels of government. The ability to influence economic policy and derive special benefits rests with a few industrialists, while those who hold political power or who have sufficient financial muscle are able to unfairly and often illegally accumulate wealth with scant scrutiny by the press and the legal system.

In a healthy democracy, the public could rely on a free media to step in to expose the countless examples of corruption and abuses of power. Yet most ordinary Indians are hugely pessimistic about the country’s ability to reduce corruption among their politicians, bureaucrats and industrialists—and about the chances of the press playing any meaningful role in exposing wrongdoing. Sadly, they can be forgiven for being gloomy, because the press here has abdicated its rightful role as the guardian of democracy.



While the press in India has from time to time uncovered political corruption, investigative stories have been rare and often short-lived. Meanwhile, it’s unusual for the Indian media to criticize the government’s foreign policy or to seriously question the actions of its leaders, and it frequently shies away from publishing anything that might upset corporate advertisers, even if there’s evidence of serious lawbreaking.

And what about the editors and publishers of most of the influential English-language dailies and network news broadcasters? They’re in denial, and you’re likely to be told that media outlets are free to ‘responsibly report’ what they want. But there’s a difference between reporting responsibly and understanding your responsibilities to the public.

The most recent example of the self-censorship employed by the Indian media was the absence of any prominent coverage of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded this month to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. An event that made global headlines got barely a mention in the mainstream press here as the media acceded to the government’s wish not to annoy the Chinese government. A few days later, The Times of India published an article in effect confirming the collective decision by the Indian press to avoid covering the event, saying it was in the nation’s best interests. It seems unimaginable that such a uniform censoring of a major world news item could have happened without a specific central government directive to the press.

Sadly such obsequiousness is nothing new. During the 1999 Kargil military conflict between India and Pakistan, the Indian media were pressured by the government to exaggerate military successes and to play up the wisdom of a frontal attack up steep slopes occupied by Pakistani soldiers and militants.

Despite heavy Indian losses, the military was forced to stick with the clearly questionable strategy until India was eventually able to regain the territory. But rather than reporting on the folly of the offensive, the press instead substantially undercounted Indian casualties, claiming that in doing so it was performing a national duty in backing government policy at a time of conflict.

More recently than this, the media was found wanting when the government announced an abrupt and remarkable turnaround in Indian policy on Tibet. When Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visitedChina in June 2003, he dropped India’s longstanding position on the issue, and accepted Tibet as an ‘autonomous region of China.’ There had been no prior discussion on this surprising reversal in policy, yet the Indian media expressed little or no concern for this undemocratic way of conducting foreign policy.

Compounding the problem is the fact that successive governments have been quite willing to harass media outlets through lawsuits, exploiting restrictive laws governing criminal defamation, contempt of court and national security to silence reporters' accounts of corruption.

The treatment of weekly magazine Tehelka back in 2001 is one of the most notorious examples of government bullying, with the publication facing an investigation and threats of government legal action after Operation West End, a sting that exposed the political corruption behind India’s defence contracts. Fearing reprisals, the rest of India’s media was reluctant to voice support for Tehelka, despite the blatant official attack on one of its own.

Two years later, the government of Tamil Nadu filed cases against the Hindu newspaper for ‘breach of privilege,’ in a move widely seen as yet another assault on press freedom. Without any serious debate or prior notice, the Tamil Nadu assembly sentenced five journalists and the publisher to 15 days in prison for breach of privilege articles, while the police carried out the arrests without warrants.

Political parties and religious groups, meanwhile, are more than happy to engage in some media bashing themselves when they feel their interests are endangered, resorting to threats and even violence. Most famously, in 2003, hard-line members of Shiv Sena party (a wing of the then-ruling BJP party), attacked the offices of Outlook magazine in Mumbai over an article describing their leader’s comments about the Muslim community. Sadly this was only one example of many such acts of vandalism, often supported by the ruling party or government.

This isn’t to say that on an individual level there aren’t many courageous journalists in India who are willing to risk their personal safety to expose government wrongdoing. But unless the institutions they represent are willing to stand up for them, there’ll be very little investigative journalism making it onto the pages of the country’s newspapers.

Just as a stable authoritarian government that has little or no press freedomwill likely see its future growth prospects curtailed, so too will a country that is democratic but unstable—and that isn’t properly held to account. And while corruption in China may be rife in the lower ranks of government, in India it’s a worrying reality that it occurs at all levels.

Until India’s press is free—and just importantly feels free—to criticize its leaders and expose wrongdoing, it’s unlikely that this country will be able to fulfill its economic potential and throw off the shackles of corruption holding it back.


Abraham George is adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business in New York. The views expressed are his own.

I have already answered ur question in another thread!!

What wrong with Airtel these days why can't they concentrate on improving their core services, launching crazy stuff the broadband TV and this on the other hand Fair Usage Policy broadband customers and doing everything to alienate them, just cannot understand their logic, maybe they have just gone crazy after the Zain deal some African Virus has gone into the top management's head after the deal :)

Yes I still have the STB with me...I will PM you my number and we can discuss...

SAD NEWS (with little hope of good thing to happen)::::

Friends, the sad news is that STB2 will not be upgraded until 1st week of April 2011. Let me tell you in details.

Our efforts got some success of at least somebody from very higher authority called me yesterday evening from this number: +91.22.30326200

I got very aggressive and he agreed to everything what we have been doubting and disscussing here.

He said that we are sorry that you people are suffering because of UEC STB but while upgrading (he said something) got corrupted and we tried again but couldnt resolve issue on STB2. Our team is still after that issue and we promise it will be upgraded soon. We are receiving lots of complaints everyday regarding UEC STB.

I asked very aggressively to give time frame and he finally said anytime but at least not before 1st week of april.

As i was very angry, he said i am keeping your issue on-hold and will surely return back with some solution soon.

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Friends, he said that they are receiving tons of complaints everyday and i am sure many of them from us as well. (thats why i got a call too). Lets keep doing it even till April 1st week. I said that to him as well. We will keep emailing you and bugging you until you sort this out and its better you do ASAP or else be ready to keep receiving tons and tons of mails everyday.

Guys, thats a way to fight with them. Keep it doing.

Anybody, who wants proof; can call on that number and i am sure it will ring to RDTV people. (i havent tried yet but will do tomorrow if i wont receive a call back as promised).

I will keep you posted as and how it goes ahead with me.

See? Creative minds think alike :|

I called them for same thing.. to activate a movie for me.. but they said.. i have to pay for it!!

What non-sense??

I wrote email to airtel presence.. here is the reply i got.

Whoever posts here, they give standard reply and ask them to send an email and now when i emailed them.. there also they sent a standard reply!!

I hope that they will actually give me a proper response, after whatever resolution they have come to!

right. just noticed. i would look into it. i guess the launch of hd thingy required changes in policy.

they removed the plans from their site.. "next time jab plan dalega toh soch samaj kar hi dalna vodafone!"

add me on Gtal or facebook my email: ashishsawant1987@gmail.com

Is Reliance available in East Delhi? (I live in Vigyan Vihar).

Vodafone is providing broadband services in India (?) or you talking about UAE?
Or just acting ignorant as we are talking about Broadband connection not GSM/CDMA services :|

That's Opera's take on the whole situation.
They are well aware of the fact that Opera stands above all such dirty tactics.
The Norwegian Software Company took the situation in right spirits :|

Such a sad state of affairs. Corruption is in our blood :(

Call to this no. 040-61600990

At first I thought this was the case, but I've since learned that MTNL's CDMA network is still alive and well, as mentioned in posts above. As such, you should be able to take it to MTNL and activate it somehow - or if MTNL doesn't want to touch it, then you can take it to Tata or Reliance too.

That being said, I stand by my suggestion that you consider switching over to GSM technology, as all of the providers are migrating away from CDMA networks, and this will give you the opportunity to upgrade to 3G as well if you want it in future.

Oh, whoops. Could it be the subject of India's first bailout or might they be forced to do something like lay-off excess staff or (gasp) start local loop unbundling?

If they only made Rs100 per month on 10 million Internet connections by doing LLU, that's 100 Crores extra a month for them. Not much on the grand-scale of BSNL's operations, but it wouldn't hurt.

yeah pls suggest the same with your exp (good or bad) on the same .. its best way to find out good site ...

Hi,

I woke up in the morning and saw the newspaper carrying Airtel advt for 3g Launch. I called the Customer Care. It took 8 mins at 121 [charged @ 50p/3mins]. I got the Rs. 200 for 250 MB[post paid] and afterwards chargeable at 30p/20KB. It would take at the most 4 hours for activation. Video call @ 3 rs/min.

I started using it like 20 mins later. Speedtest results : down > 4.60 mbps up>1 mbps

I don't have screenshots right now. I ll post them later on.


Unable to find some one to make a videocall.

High- flying weddingl

The Rs. 250 crore wedding?

Now no one will question from where he brought all this money ??????

If you have not changed it then its possible its been set to default by MTNL (although why they would do that eludes me), try your CA number (found in your tel bill). If that does not work then ask MTNL to reset it. They will set it to your CA number. :)

i have an Factory Unlock.... let me try and get the BSNL Micro SIM from somewhere......

that's y I'm asking again.... which BSNL office in Hyderabad will provide me with the Micro SIM!!:wall:

Lakhs of Tata Docomo Mobiles in Punjab are unable to get any Incomming calls from yesterday night.

I just talked to their customer support and was told I should wait for next 4 hours their engineers are working on it.

WTF? I use this number for my business communication and no incomming calls for hours?

Screwd!!

Oh Italy...that is pathetic now. Berlusconi has done everything wrong but still in power which makes u think sometimes that Democracy is not that gud

Same problem here. APN gprsppsmum is only restricted to 3G speeds of Maximum 0.4 Mbps.

Contact the JTO, if he's not ready to listen contact the nodal officer about this.

YouTube -

I tried looking into the concept behind this movement... :|