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Sharad Pawar slapper may now target Kapil Sibal, IB issues alert - The Times of India

A team from our country's intelligence bureau is given a job to track a man who slapped shard pawar. Can you believe this sh#t?

I agree with you on the pricing front - I spoken [to them] on numerous occasions about their stupid pricing at conferences and while they're happy to stand up and argue, they've never really justified their pricing to me satisfactorily. I sure as hell don't understand why it is what it is, but hey, not my problem!

In the long run Fiber is a better option as it's the only way BSNL can go forward if only they modify their mindset and charge properly: them spending taxpayer and ISP licensees money on VDSL now is just wasteful.

BSNL has some several lakh kilometers of network - I've not seen them all, but from what I have seen on my excursions outside of Mumbai, I've not seen any DSL stuff cabinetized. That being said, the trend these days is to put such equipment individually in new housing societies which means there is a distinct possibility that is has been done in some places, but where those places are I simply don't know - I would expect (hope) that in complexes built in the last 5-7 years it's done this way.

A few possible reasons: His phone line for some reason takes the scenic route to the exchange (I've seen this too often, even in first-world countries) OR his line is noisy OR his cabling is old/bad quality OR he's plugged in to different equipment than you are which isn't as good (BSNL buys from whoever is the cheapest on any given day so there's a bit of hodge-podge going on, and the equipment used in one state/city might be different from what's used in another state/city)... not knowing your area though it's a wild guess.

80km is the upper limit on GPON, but most equipment suggests <20km. In our deployments we're keeping them below 10kmand the vast majority are below 5km (it allows us to localize things much more effectively and offer better redundancy). Also depends on the quality of the optics, how many splits there are, transmission power and stuff like that, but it doesn't get affected as much as copper (usually 0.2dBm/KM is about standard IIRC). Fortunately, fiber is such that it either works or it doesn't: if you have a faulty fiber install, it'll just not work at all.

With copper, you've got degradation, interference/crosstalk, splits/joins, moisture and of course, the problem where it can work intermittently, resulting in you experiencing problems until the technician comes around and says "no, it's working fine" then he closes the ticket and goes home, then it screws up after he leaves again :D

Fiber is more difficult (costly, time consuming and requires some skill) to install, but requires very little maintenance and no powered equipment between you and the local point of presence (CO/exchange), whereas copper can be installed more quickly but is subject to certain limitations.

so basically hathway is a cheater too. so why not try out beam this time around?

Usually deals are worked out such that the sponsors get discounted or free ad spots on other popular properties. No one wants to sour a relationship, so chances are they have already reached some kinda agreement.

No bro , and i think you wont need it either!

i think micromax should provide something to me as i have brought him 2 or 3 sales and there mi8 be some disgused sales also!!