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Unlimited Broadband: BSNL / Kolkata Telephones Reduces Price

BSNL / Kolkata Telephones reduced the pricing of unlimited broadband plans across the board and introduced several new plans for home users and business.

The 256 Kbps unlimited broadband plan is now priced at Rs. 750 instead of Rs. 900 previously. It comes in two flavors - unlimited and unlimited plus. In unlimited plus your phone call rate is reduced to Rs. 1 per unit.

They also introduced 512 Kbps unlimited (and unlimited plus) plans priced at Rs. 1350 per month. The phone rate in plus plan is reduced to 80 paisa per minute.

The introduced two unlimited business plans (with plus variants for each) providing 256 Kbps and 512 Kbps and priced at Rs 3300 and Rs. 6000 respectively. The plus plans provide regular phone calls at the rate of 90 paisa per minute.

BSNL Dataone type 4 Router WA3002G4 configure to airtel broadband

Airtel uses a single VPI/VCI for the whole of India, that being 1/32 respectively.

Just make sure one of the 7 it has is this.

BSNL: 0/35
BSNL (some areas) 0/86
Airtel 1/32 (net) and 1/35 (iptv)
MTNL: 0/32
TATA: (as far as i know) 1/100

PVC VPI/VCI
PVC0 0 / 35
PVC1 8 / 35
PVC2 0 / 100
PVC3 0 / 32
PVC4 8 / 81
PVC5 8 / 32
PVC6 14 / 24

Only 1 of these is used... So you could have values setup for all 7 to connect different ones... (maybe?).. I have been told that the number you connect to needs to be the first one, but that does not seem to be the case...(maybe?)...


EG....
BSNL: 0/35
BSNL (some areas) 0/86
Airtel 1/32 (net) and 1/35 (iptv)
MTNL: 0/32
TATA: 0/100 or
TATA: 1/100

Setting up Linksys WiFi router with Airtel Broadband

I bought a Linksys WiFi router last weekend. I had a small bit of trouble configuring it, although the problem was trivial, it took me some time to figure it out. I’m jotting down some notes here about what I did to resolve the problem.

The Problem
The beetel DSL modem installed by Airtel has the IP address set to 192.168.1.1. The Linksys router (and probably other routers as well) use the same IP address (192.168.1.1) as their default IP address for accessing their configuration page. This causes an IP address conflict and hence the router wouldn’t be able to forward IP packets to the modem.

The Solution
1) Insert the installation CD/DVD provided with the wifi router and follow the instruction for installing the router. During the installation (Probably at the final step) the router will fail to detect Internet connectivity. That’s fine, as this is the problem we are resolving. Leave the setup window open and proceed to next step.
2) Open your favourite web-browser and enter the following address in the URL bar : 192.168.1.1
3) The above step should open the Linksys configuration page. If you are prompted for a username and password, enter admin for both the fields. If you had set a router password in step 1 enter username as admin and the password you had set in step 1. Before the username and password is asked you might be displayed a page with 3~4 icons, labeled WAN, LAN etc. select the WAN Icon, enter the username and password as described above, if prompted for.
4) On the page displayed select Setup tab (most likely the first tab) and under that select Basic setup (The exact name/text might vary but would most probably be something similar). Scroll down and locate the field Local IP address. The default value for this field would be 192.168.1.1, change it to 192.168.0.1.
5) Scroll further down the page and click on Save Settings. Reset your router and DSL modem (Power them OFF, wait for 10~15 seconds and power back ON). Wait for around 1~2 minutes (So that the Router and DSL modem have properly rebooted).
6) Complete Installation of the router (Click ‘Try Again/Re-try’ in the setup window we left open in step 1)

You should now be able to browser Internet properly on the wired (directly connected) computer. Setup your Laptop and Desktops with WiFi Ethernet card/adaptors to connect to the WiFi router. After that you should be able to access Internet through them.

Use SMS to send email minus Net

BANGALORE: MyDuniya Networks on Tuesday announced the launch of an service which will allow mobile users to send emails, save and retrieve personal information and share contact details just by sending an SMS and without having to access the Internet.

Currently available for Airtel subscribers in Karnataka, the service will be expanded nationally and to other telecom operators soon, the Bangalore-based startup founder and chairman Jagdish Kini said.

The SMS-based application also supports interactive group messaging and allows files to be sent to e-mail addresses. Commonly-used files such as brochures can be stored on the company’s server and data up to one megabyte can be sent to e-mail addresses using the SMS shortcode 53695. “There is a digital divide between mobile users and web users. This service is a way to bridge this divide,” Mr Kini said.

MyDuniya also has a platform for enterprises and web portals to allow access to customers through the mobile phone. The company says the platform supports two-way interactions and can be leveraged to provide personalised information.

“The goal of the service is consumer convenience and the mobile market is our biggest market. We have launched our initial service on the SMS platform considering that SMS is the most widely used non-voice service” CEO Ganapathy Subramanian said.

With 260 million subscribers, India has the world’s second biggest mobile user base. The country has some 3.9 million broadband connections and about 32 million active Internet users.

BSNL to add 100 million landlines with 25 million in Karnataka circle by 2010

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) announced to increase the capacity of landlines by 100 million across the country by 2010, including 25 million alone in Karnataka, which is the maiden circle to have attained ISO 9001 : 2000 certification.


BSNL chief managing director CMD Kuldeep Goyal said that the company is in the process of inviting tenders for 93 million new lines. “We have decided to push the capacity building program and will plan to set up five million new lines for South India in the next six months”, he added.


Further the company is planning to add three million broadband users in the current year to take its market share from 42 percent to 50 percent, aiming to have 10 million broadband subscriber base.


BSNL also aims to hike its value added services revenue from Rs 700 crore during 2007-08 to Rs 2,000-crore by 2010, for which it is planning to introduce managed network services targeting the enterprise sector.

Reliance Leading the WiMAX Charge in India

The Indian Broadband market is expected to expand almost exponentially over the next five to six years according to a report published recently and it would appear that the use of WiMAX (short for World Interoperability for Microwave Access) is leading the charge with usage expecting to rise to over 21 million users by 2014. WiMAX where installed correctly is designed to provide greater efficiency, development and utilisation of broadband services.

This echoes further additional reports that confirm that the Indian economy is flourishing and the demand for telecommunications networks and services has finally outpaced the availability provided for by what are euphemistically described as conventional legacy wired telecommunications.

It would appear that within the Indian marketplace that vendors, operators and system integrators are all coming together to engineer a bandwidth revolution, the like of which has never been seen before.

Leading the charge in this particular telecommunications sub sector would appear to be Reliance Technology Ventures; the VC (Venture Capital) subsidiary of Mumbai based Reliance AD Group.

One of reliance technology ventures sister companies reliance communications is at present one of India's largest CDMA (code division multiple access) suppliers and is now serving its intention to move into the GSM marketplace.

It has achieved this by its recent funding of a large undisclosed investment in E-Band, a San Diego based manufacturer and designer of multigigabit wireless communications systems.

Given the current rate of growth within the Indian marketplace industry experts are predicting with current levels of investment and expansion we may be at the beginning of what could possibly be one of the world's top three WiMAX marketplaces.

At the forefront of this expansion have been major carriers such as Reliance Technologies who are already running commercial WiMAX services in Bangalore. Should these initial tests prove to be successful and if you want to go on initial criteria and that would certainly be the case, they are predicting that by 2014 the accumulated WiMAX subscriber base in India alone will reach 21 million.

Partly because of its rapid expansion equipment costs the general market costs are dropping whilst revenues are rising. Costs in India are being driven down faster than in any of the major worldwide marketplace.

At present industry analysts state the penetration of broadband throughout India at present lies at an extremely low figure of .2%. With the new technologies and investment rapidly being made available for the industry, experts are predicting the market to double within the next couple of years.

It cannot be denied that globally, investment in emerging wireless technology services such as WiMAX is growing certainly more than any other similar mobile technology.

It is one of those things that you can get a rough estimation of how mature technology marketplace is when you sit back and analyze the number of hardware equipment manufacturers who are prepared to "jump in with both feet," desperate to claim vital market share.

Elsewhere in Asia, WiMAX is expanding and it would appear that from other marketplaces, certain Asian telephone companies are planning to run controlled tests of these services based on WiMAX technology in the United Kingdom next year.

Certainly it would appear that the initial WiMAX tests run by Reliance WiMAX in Bangalore are going well and that the costs of the Reliance Data Card are expected to drop accordingly.

Stephen Morgan writes on many technical issues and more on the above can be found at Reliance WiMAX and http://www.broadbandforum.co.in

49 Million Indians Log on to Internet in 2008

NEW DELHI: Internet users in India have risen to over 49 million this year. Urban users account for a bulk of it, 40 million, with rural net users numbering 9 million. Regular net users, defined as anyone accessing the net at least once a month, number around 35 million (30-million urban and 5-million rural), says online research & advisory firm JuxtConsult’s ‘India Online 2008’ - an offline survey of over 12,500 households across 40 cities and 160 villages countrywide to gauge the online behavior of Indians.
The data indicate that every one in 10 urban Indians (12 percent) is now net connected. And interestingly, over 70 percent Internet users prefer to access the net in Indian languages, with English users dwindled down to 28 percent from 41 percent in 2007.
Internet penetration (as percent of population) has crossed double-digit mark in urban India at 12 percent, up 3 percent from 9 percent last year, and rural penetration stands at 4.5 percent, India’s net user demographics cuts evenly across socio-economic class (SEC) A, B and C, and extends beyond metros (which account for under a third, 30 percent, of all users now, down 6 percent from 2007’s 36 percent). A majority, over three-fourths of users (77 percent), are between 19 to 35 years of age, up 10 percent from 2007.
Surprisingly women account for less than a fifth, just 17.6 percent, of the 49 million odd Indian netizens. The females’ net representation is just marginally higher for urban India at 18.2 percent.
The survey says that over half of all net users (51 percent) in the country are salaried employees in the corporate world. The number of urban netizens has increased by 33 percent in the last one year, from 30 million to 40 million. Of the total number of urban users, 75 percent (30 million) are regular urban users while rest, 25 percent (10-million), are occasional users.

India to issue WiMAX and 3G guidelines in June

Speaking at a recent industry conference in Delhi, Raja said the licence conditions would allow for foreign participation. Under Indian law, up to 74 per cent of an Indian company can be held by a foreign company.

The Indian government expects the rollout of WiMAX and 3G networks to start by January 2009; it has also set a target of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010. The country currently only has around 4 million broadband subscribers.

The initial WiMAX plans laid out by the Indian government include the auction of three 2.5GHz WiMAX licenses with a 10MHz allocation each for the winners. State-owned BSNL has already been handed 20MHz of spectrum in the 2.5GHz band for mobile WiMAX rollout.

It is still not clear whether the 2.5GHz licence winners will be able to offer mobile services or not. However, the new guidelines should clarify this issue.

Despite all the WiMAX optimism displayed by the Indian government, Gartner is downbeat on the technology's prospects in the country. In a recent report entitled "Beware of WiMAX Hype in India", Gartner forecast there would only be 6.9 million mobile and fixed WiMAX connections in use in India by the end of 2011. Of that number, Gartner estimates the overwhelming majority will be for fixed and nomadic applications