[Assam] Broadband in Guwahati

Sat Apr 3 22:42:06 IST 2010

Heh-Heh --  I know you would like to see me vanish out of Assamnetbut it is not going to be any time soon.  But if you feel too uncomfortable I can stop pointing to flaws in your arguments or asking uncomfortable questions.BTW,  if you do not want me to read your post  and unveil your hidden agenda,  best -- do not not post such stuff.  Better spend that time on examining the issues and defining the problems.  It is  easy to see through your hidden agenda and not easy but not impossible to expose the vacous in your arguments.   **************************************************** Sure glad to have helped you in dissipating your slow burn. Hope  
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On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:

>> But the idea here is not to
> cater to any one or a group of individuals'
> sense of prosperity, well being or national pride
>
> --  Thanks for proving my point.  You hidden agenda behind  bringing  
> up Photon's unaffordability was mereley  an attemtp to negate  
> everything good in India.  
>
>> but I am made of different material and thus you can
> expect to continue to hear
> things that may not be music to your ears, but nevertheless true.
>
> -- We know.  We know.  Never in my dreams I would expect that you  
> will say something good about India :)  But you know what,  someone  
> with colored glasses can never  see the full truth.  
>
>> Oh, BTW, it is not my goal in life to somehow trumpet American
> prosperity to the deprived world.
> In fact it is far from it
>
> --  Again,  nothing new.  Your goal in life is to paint India black  
> by hook or by crook  with a hope that it will cause people to switch  
> to your idea of Sovereign Assam.  But no one probably knows better  
> then you that the reality is far from it.  Rather then trying to  
> paint India black you might score a brownie point if you can  
> complete your "examining the issues and defining the problems" and  
> come up with your dream plan on how to convert the utopian Sovereign  
> Assam    with your midas touch.
>
>
>> But I can see why that angle comes up so
> often in these quarrels as an
> explanation:
>
> ---  Ummm ...  you need a better vision to "see the angles"  
> clearly.    The point was --  there are many high-end things  
> unaffordable to common folks in every place under the sun ... and  
> that does not prove or disprove anything about a place or its  
> governence.
>
>  If your photon arguments prove anything,  it prove that India is  
> ahead of many advanced countries in wireless technology.  It also  
> proves that the purchase power of a large number of Indians have  
> increased.  Tata has not planned their Photon business based on a  
> handfull NRI/NRA customers , for sure.
>
> ********************************************************************************
>> That simply shows that Photon's unaffordabilty was  just an excuse
> which you wanted to use  to negate all of India's advances  ... As
> always
>
> *** I am sorry I hurt your feelings.  But the idea here is not to
> cater to any one or a group of individuals'
> sense of prosperity, well being or national pride. There are plenty of
> people who do that.
> I could too, but I am made of different material and thus you can
> expect to continue to hear
> things that may not be music to your ears, but nevertheless true.
>
> Oh, BTW, it is not my goal in life to somehow trumpet American
> prosperity to the deprived world.
> In fact it is far from it. But I can see why that angle comes up so
> often in these quarrels as an
> explanation: What else can one offer?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
>
>> And ?   Many things are not affordable   in US too.     I cannot
>> afford to buy a Rolles Royece.   Does that make things any bad  and
>> do you constantly harp on that trying to imply nothing is
>> affordable  or nothing is good here ?
>>
>> Flying Delhi from Guwahati is much more affordable then what it was
>> 10 years back.  And the proof is air congestion in India which
>> implies a lot more people are flying today.
>>
>> As I have said earlier,  any new technology is high priced ... the
>> price comes down after some time.
>>
>> If your intent was  to focus only on Photon,  I wonder why you moved
>> on to  housing, education etc.    That simply shows that Photon's
>> unaffordabilty was  just an excuse which you wanted to use  to
>> negate all of India's advances  ... As always
>>
>>
>>
>> *****************************************************************************
>> ------ it is reasonable to think that Photon will soon come down to
>> those levels.
>>
>> *** That is different from how it is today. Rs. 2,500 to get an
>> internet connection, at 32 kBPs, is
>> not an affordable proposition in Assam, as it stands today.
>>
>> *** In 2012 Indians might fly to the moon too.  But is flying to  
>> Delhi
>> from Guahati
>> affordable to the ordinary man today?
>>
>>
>> That is the diff.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
>>
>>> Why ?
>>>
>>> In your initial discussion you  discussed about > wireless
>>> communication   and brought up Photon's high price in an attempt to
>>> imply that how technology is unaffordable in India.
>>>
>>> What I pointed was while Photon IS a wireless communication
>>> device ,  there are other wireless communication devices which have
>>> come down to a very affordable in India.  And so,  it is reasonable
>>> to think that Photon will soon come down to those levels.
>>>
>>> That is what I pointed  and then you started moving elsewhere like
>>> housing, education etc. etc.  coming back to allege that someone
>>> claimed photon to be affordable.
>>>
>>> BTW,  Cable internet  used to be very popular in Mumbai (I guess
>>> still is)  .  And as I see from  google search,  it seems to be
>>> available in Guwahati too.  May be some one from Guwahati can
>>> confirm.
>>>
>>>
>>> *****************************************
>>> If not, then the whole dispute is moot, isn't it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did somebody claim that Tata Photon is "Affordable"  ?  I sure
>>>> missed it.  Why don't you point to it ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *********************************
>>>> *** Sure! But that is something different from claiming Tata Photon
>>>> as
>>>> something "affordable".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Krishnendu Chakraborty wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In that case,  price will come down -- the way lack of landline
>>>>> phone has made way for Cell Phones.  I thought in many places they
>>>>> use Cable line for  internet.     And cable is more pervasive then
>>>>> Phone line in India.
>>>>>
>>>>> ****************************************
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In India it is out of necessity as it is still very hard (almost
>>>>> impossible?) for inside areas to get a land line in India. For
>>>>> example, even at Parijat Academy, even though it's just a few kms
>>>>> away from Guwahati, they have to depend on a wireless connection
>>>>> for
>>>>> internet. Hence the Tata Photon+ (or something similar) is the  
>>>>> only
>>>>> way that they can communicate with the world.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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