[Assam] Indian Cell Phone Myths

[Malabika Brahma]

Soon Reliance and others will be forced to improve their service if they want to survive and prosper.
   
  But they have achieved to provide at least rudimentary service in 5/6 years of operation (in cell phones) which government failed to provide for (take electricity) in last 60 years.
   
  My village in Dhubri district does not yet have regular electricity, paved roads and clean water supply (we rely on wells) after 60 years but does receive NextTel cell phone signals.
   
  People who never had land phone lines had cell phones as the first phone.
  

mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
      .hmmessage P  {  margin:0px;  padding:0px  }  body.hmmessage  {  FONT-SIZE: 10pt;  FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma  }    Cellphone Cos are like "Indian IT Miracles".
Each one is a Benami shadow of likes of Eriksson/Siemens/Nokia/Motorola.Even screws are imported.- mostly from China. Customs do not hold them for Minutes. And they were/are being milked for Upfront+Below the Table n000Crores@ time for licensing CeNtrallyat Delhi
Remember Pramod Mahajan's Brother fuming and shooting him dead 
-----"You took 5000 crores and did nothing to US?"
Currently there is something bigger happening-all Hush Hush:
Reliance trying to corner huge Spectrum(allowed to be a cOuntry's right by ITU rules)and  all the other players crying out loud"You cannot do that".
So they can Cheat the Economy  as they like--Licensed to Kill.

{Compare mine --a few Welding/Sawing machines not released by Kolkata Customs"Where is it written--the address of the Party to be Notified?"And of course I have to be penalized for Demurrage that longer.As per  Rules. Nedfi--Oh they are Busy Developing Look East!!!    }
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  Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0600
To: assam at assamnet.org
From: cmahanta at charter.net
Subject: [Assam] Indian Cell Phone Myths

      .ExternalClass blockquote, .ExternalClass dl, .ExternalClass ul, .ExternalClass ol, .ExternalClass li  {padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;}        As an addendum to my previous response on the matter of the quality of private  services as in cell-phone, I would be remiss if I did not share what I heard during my recent trip to Assam:
  

   *** That service is uniformly bad thruout Assam. And the worst is the darling of the private enterprise
  advocates: Reliance; so much so that there was some kind of a 'Bandh' against purported Reliance deceit of consumers.
  

  I was loaned a cellphone from a new service provider by a relative, which, amazingly worked from my native village at remote Namti, but would not work from some of Guahati's  most important localities such as Beltola and Rajgarh.
  

  

  *** Most surprisingly the cell phone service that generally is acknowledged to be the most reliable across Assam is that provided by the Indian Govt. operated BSNL, but at a cost. Apparently it is the most expensive of cell phone services.
  

  

  So much for the conventional wisdom about public vs. private enterprise in India, specifically as it relates to cell phone service in Assam.
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  At 5:06 PM +0000 11/18/07, Malabika Brahma wrote:
  Cell phone services are available all over India at a very reasonable rate with excellent service, however electricity is not.

This is because cell phone was considered a luxury and hence left to the market forces whereas electricity was considered essential and left for the government to  provide.

Government always messes up whereas fair  market dynamics does not.

Utpal  
       
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