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Intel achieves 50 Gbps throughput using photons
Intel has successfully achieved 50 Gbps throughput over photon based telecommunication equipment. This is 50 times faster than the 1 Gbps ethernet we have currently. Although it will still take a few years before this tech can come to our homes or offices, it is a wonderful breakthrough in terms of communication speeds.
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Olive telecom launches India’s first 3G tablet
Olive telecom has launched Olivepad-VT100 in India. Olivepad is the first 3G enabled tablet to be launched in India. The tablet will be powered by the Android OS and will support 3.5G HSUPA networks in addition to WiFi and Bluetooth. Weighing at 410 grams the Olivepad is powered by an ARM11 600MHz processor and is…
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Airtel introduces 50 Mbps & 30 Mbps broadband plans in India
Looks like Bharti Airtel is on a spree. The company announced today that it is introducing 30 Mbps & 50 Mbps broadband plans in India. This translates to 3.75 MBPS and 6.25 MBPS speeds respectively. Wow. It looks like we are finally catching up to the rest of the world in terms of broadband speed.…
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BSNL joins the bandwagon, offers new, lamer plans
State owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) does not want to stay behind in the lame tactics of ISPs in India. They have come up with plans going up to 2 Mbps, but with terribly absurd FUP. Here are the details:
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Airtel launches 4Mbps plans with absurd FUP limits
Airtel is desperate to woo in new customer. The company recently launched four new broadband plans offering speed of 4Mbps. However, the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) limit on these plans is completely absurd for a speed like that. Equally absurd is the post FUP speed of 256kbps! Here are the details:
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Airtel’s low rental GPRS plan
Airtel has launched a GPRS plan with a monthly rental of INR 98 with 2GB transfer limit. This is pretty cool as something which was available only to large corporate connections before is now available to everyone. Here are the details:
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Double your Airtel broadband speed with 100 rupees top up
If you are an Airtel broadband user, you can double your speed by adding a top up of INR 100 per month. Your speed will be doubled and you will also get an extra INR 100 calling value from your landline. Here are the plans on which the top up is available:
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BSNL launches 24Mbps broadband plan in India
Looks like folks at BSNL have finally started watching online porn over their 2 Mbps connections. And frustrated with the buffering time, they have decided to launch 24 Mbps broadband plans in India. Here are the details of the plan (BBG Super Speed Combo 9999):
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Mobile phones with fake or invalid IMEI numbers blocked in India
In the interest of national security, the Government of India had asked all the cellular operators to block mobile phones with fake or invalid IMEI numbers from their networks. The rule has been implemented starting Dec 01 2009. This means that people having unbranded (or Chinese) mobile phones without a valid IMEI number will not…
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Mobile numbers in India are now also starting with “8”
OK. I have been wanting to write about this since the last few days, so I am gonna spill it out directly. Mobile numbers in India are now (also) starting with the digit “8”. Apparently, all the “9” ones are used up, so, the Department of Telecommunications has allotted 100 million more number starting with…
