Broadband - Voip

The government of India has yet again decided to keep the benchmark of 256kbps intact to differentiate broadband from slow internet services. There has been numerous proposals to change the limit to 512kbps like many other developed countries in Europe and North America have right now.

The governments decision comes in saying that they are trying to increase broadband connectivity in the country and dont want to restrict the isp’s in any way for the time being.

This decision comes as a defeat to the customer of isps in India and I am hoping that this decision is reconsidered very soon and the minimum limit is changed to 512kbps as soon as possible.

According to yahoo news the India broadband forum has completed two years and has achieved many milestones in the last two years and has become an object of envy for rival forums although the quality and reliability of the India broadband forum remains unmatched. A number of people have tried to write untrue remarks about me in the past but that is something that happens to everything that is famous I like it when people talk about me be it good or bad free publicity always helps

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Hindustan Times has reported clashes between Hindu and Muslims in Rajouri during celebrations of India’s victory in cricket. The Hindus were celebrating and Muslims were objecting. This heart burning of Muslims despite the fact that two well-loved persons in the final teams were two Pathan brothers. Who contributed significantly toward India’s win? See the difference in the attitudes we have people of all faiths in our team and we are proud of it. Pakistan had one Dinesh Kaneria, a Hindu whose name was reoriented to Danish to make it look Muslim. Then there is the case of that idiot Yussaf Yohana who was told that to become the captain of the Pakistan team he has to convert. The captainancy is still eluding the poor Mohammed Yussaf.

Bose is pretty costly in India as compared to Dubai and UK even where VAT is at 17.5% but India beats them all and for a basic home theatre system your pocket will loose a whooping Rs115000 but I believe its still worth it coz it comes with a one year warranty and the quality of sound is just exceptional if you are using a good cd. I owned a few music systems but Bose is a class of its own with excellent sound quality, which cannot be described in words.

Do you know that during the last week of May this year it was found that all nine planets in our solar system would come exactly in a straight line in the cosmos. Everyone could see this stellar happening provided the night sky was clear of clouds and dust. Every one of us is privileged enough to have a chance of viewing such a magnificent stellar occurrence. It was told to be a simple stellar phenomenon. Somehow few of the astrologers still were of the view that the phenomenon will definitely affect the people in general due to the fact that more of the planets remaining affiliated to a few of the zodiac combinations. Surprising, right!

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd Chennai Telephones plans to upgrade 25 District Telegraph Offices (DTO) across the city into one-stop outlets providing a range of telecom services on the lines of customer support centres.

In the initial phase, six DTOs have commenced online transactions relating to BSNL fixed line and mobile bill payments. These multi-tasking centres are located at Adyar, Anna Nagar, Koyambedu Market and CMBT, Ambattur and Anna Road.

Soon, they will be equipped to accept applications for connections, telephone shifts and other fixed line services, a BSNL official said. They will also issue CellOne SIM recharge and top-up cards.

Dayanidhi maran has done a lot in the last one year to communications industry in India and has not left any stone unturned in a bid to get the nation connected with the world wide web in a big way.Its Maran’s party leadership who got worried due to Maran’s success as a cabinet minister which led to problems for him.India would have got free broadband access for every one by years 2009 but some bunch of idiots dont want this nation to progress.Well I will still take it positively and say alright let them be poor for ever.. I am from an alright doing family so its a smooth road ahead for me

Entertainment media industry giant Walt Disney has said that they would soon start testing a “watch-and-chat” feature on their ABC Family Channel Web site.

This new feature edition would let the members to watch TV shows on the Internet and chat about them at the same time.

Interestingly, the company was the first one of the major television studios to offer free streaming videos of its prime-time shows on the Web. Now, they plan to enhance the service by adding social networking features.

Paul Lee, president of ABC Family Channel said in a statement that they have chosen their series Wildfire for this test as its audience of predominantly 14- to 28-year-old females is “the most passionate audience of any show on the network.”

He added: “There is a new generation here …. They are changing the way people watch TV or use other technology. When you link (social networking) to TV programming, it’s almost like word of mouth on steroids.”

Following the recent 3GPP industry standardization of EDGE Evolution, Ericsson has restated its commitment to launch EDGE Evolution, as software upgrade of existing infrastructure, by 2009.

EDGE Evolution will boost data speeds by up to 300 percent and will significantly improve latency, coverage, and spectrum efficiency. This improved data performance in GSM will serve as an important complement to high-speed WCDMA/HSPA networks, meeting the growing demand of data bandwidth and mobility.

Ulf Ewaldsson, Vice President and Head of Product Area Radio at Ericsson, says: “Ericsson EDGE Evolution builds on 3GPP’s industry standardization of agreed technology improvements and reflects Ericsson’s prediction that the current trend towards EDGE-capable GSM networks and terminals is set to continue.

“Ericsson is committed to offering improved data communications such as mobile broadband, and we will leverage our expertise evolving fixed and mobile infrastructure to provide future-proof investment in Ericsson GSM networks.”

In order to encourage competition between Internet carriers of telephone traffic and traditional telephone the European Commission favors an EU-wide light touch approach to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.The European Commission launched a consultation on the treatment of Voice over VoIP services under the EU regulatory framework. Based on the conclusions reached in this consultation, the European Commission expressed its intention to promote the development of VoIP services rather than develop detailed guidelines for VoIP. Moreover, VoIP providers often face difficulties to provide guaranteed access to emergency services due to technical limitations. However, rather than impose strict obligations, the European Commission has encouraged market players to collaborate on possible solutions for the provision of emergency access services.

The main objective of the European Commission is to harmonize the legislation in EU countries through directives, regulations and decisions of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission. In June 2004, a consultation on the treatment of VoIP services under the Regulatory Framework was launched by the European Commission. The purpose of the consultation was to clarify the application of the Directives to VoIP services. In February 2005, the European Commission opted to refrain from developing detailed guidelines for VoIP services. Instead, the Commission merely expressed its intention to promote the development of VoIP services. Further, in order to allow innovative services and market structures to emerge, the Commission urged National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) to take a light touch approach to regulation of VoIP. To this end, the European Regulator Group (ERG) has issued guidelines in some areas of VoIP, but NRAs have been free to develop their own approaches to the treatment of VoIP.

VoIP providers often face difficulties in providing guaranteed access to emergency services due to the technical limitations involved in processing such services. One main difficulty is the provision of a means to identify caller location if VoIP services are provided nomadically.

Yahoo has similar broadband deals with major phone companies Verizon Communications and BT Group Plc and Canadian cable Rogers Communications.

The Wall Street Journal highlighted how rivals Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp. in the past year have struck a series of high-profile deals where they pay major computer and media companies for the privilege of marketing services to their partners’ customers, reversing the trend of five years ago when AT&T and others agreed to pay Yahoo.

“Yahoo is likely in jeopardy of losing its AT&T deal, or at least a reworking of the deal that could materially scale back the relationship,” analyst Scott Devitt of broker Stifel Nicolaus warned in a research note to clients issued Friday.

But the source close to the talks said the existing broadband contract includes a provision that AT&T customers who have signed up for the service would remain Yahoo customers for ads and Web services, whether or not AT&T chooses to renew.

“AT&T and Yahoo’s ongoing partnership is rooted in the open and ongoing dialogue we maintain about future opportunities,” he said.

The two partners introduced advertising on the front page of their joint broadband marketing site earlier this year. Later this month, Plungy said, Yahoo is introducing advertising on their co-branded e-mail service for high-speed customers.

Further mobile ties remain under negotiation.

“We are discussing ways to expand our partnership in the mobile arena, now that AT&T has 100 percent ownership of Cingular,” he said.

Yahoo shares closed down 5.2 percent at $29.12 on Nasdaq. AT&T closed up 4 cents, or 0.1 percent, at $36.55 on the New York Stock Exchange.

AT&T, formerly known as SBC Communications, struck a broadband marketing partnership in 2001 in which SBC pays Yahoo a small cut for each high-speed Internet access customer in return for Yahoo building and managing Web services for customers. The deal covers AT&T customers in the 13 states where the top U.S. phone company offers local phone service.

Microsoft sees the shift by business organisations to Web-based phone systems running on software to generate “billions” of dollars in revenue for the company, a top executive said on Tuesday.The move to Web-based phone systems will gain momentum during the next three years and Microsoft’s new server software will transform the telecommunication system industry the way its Windows operating system changed the computer industry, said Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s business division.

“You’re going to see history repeat itself,” said Raikes in an interview ahead of a keynote speech at VoiceCon Spring 2007, an industry conference for Web-based telephony.

Microsoft’s strategy in addressing the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business market differs from that of Cisco Systems Inc.  which is selling fully-integrated systems incorporating its network equipment with its own software.

On the other hand, Microsoft aims to create a distributed business model like the PC industry with its software at the centre. Last year, Microsoft and Nortel agreed on a broad alliance to address the VoIP market.

The software segment of a transformation to VoIP will grow to a $35 billion (18 billion pounds) to $40 billion market, according to Raikes, and Microsoft plans to get a piece of the action.

The capital of India is all set for the all new wimax technology and soon I will be able to stay connected no matter where I go in Delhi as wimax is to be rolled out in a few month by a lot of companies, well atleast three of them are confirmed to roll our commercial wimax offerings.

The trials conducted by bsnl and some other companies have been very succesfull so we hope it will be a lot better then the adsl technology.Its expected to be as fast as 70mbps.

I applied for a reliance broadband connection as part of a review attempt for indiabroadband.net but since the day I applied for thier broadband connection there has been no communication from thier side and nor has anyone turned up at my place as promised.

I will have to say that reliance broadband is not a company which you can rely upon if you have any set dead lines as the staff there doesnt have anything to do with this word called customer service and the sales team is getting paid for doing nothing…

If I was a normal customer and if you ask my views about reliance broadband I would say just stay away from them.

The staff at sbi uttam nager in New delhi is very rude and I found out today that none of them is ever willing to work and keep passing work from one table to the another and things just get piled up and stay there for ages.

I went there to see if my cheque which I deposited a few weeks ago have been cleared and the queue was pretty long so I just went to cash counter and thought I would take it all out and put it in my ICICI bank account and when it was my turn every thing seemed ok and the lady told me to wait for some time and after that it was all waiting and waiting and just waiting for 4 hours and thats how much time it took to find out that the funds havent arrived in my account.

I am going to close my account with SBI or may be just leave it to rot after taking out all my money.Will stay with icici as they are a bit more customer focused and this nonsense doesnt happen at thier branches.

Cordless phones are going to be combined with landlines phones and VOIP. You will be able to use up to 8 cordless handsets to make and receive calls via VOIP and a regular landline connection. You may think that getting VOIP may stop you from getting the advantages of a landline, but Globarange Hybrid 2-Line Cordless Telephones allows you to have VOIP service as well as benefits of a landline. These Hybrid phones also have the facilities such as call waiting, handset speakerphones, caller ID and many more features.

BSNL has taken another step forward by starting Broadband services using Wimax in 10 cities and towns which include a few rural areas in Haryana aswell.

Bsnl is planning to roll out wimax broadband services in over 5000 villages across the country and furthur strenghten thier position of being the largest isp in India.With the wimax solving the last mile connectivity problem in remote areas broadband is destined to gorw in India and so is the internet penetration.

Some private operators has been lobbying to get bsnl to unbundel thier last mile connectivity but bsnl has denied any plans for doing so in the near future so private operators will have to find thier own way into a customers house.

The online search data reveals that average number of calling features included in VoIP provider plans ranging from $1 to $30 per month has steadily increased from 23.2 in April to 26.71 in November 2006. Typical VoIP calling plans features include caller ID, voice mail, number portability, call waiting and 911.

With pricing at $25.46 per month in April and $25.18 per month in November 2006 the average price of unlimited long distance home plans with 911 has remained somewhat consistent.

VoipReview.org offers the most complete comparison shopping and information source for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or broadband phone service for both residential and business VoIP services. The site claims to have helped more than 3 million visitors find, compare and purchase broadband telephone service based on VoIP reviews and ratings, availability, features and prices.

IOL Broadband has confirmed that they are now going to work with government owned telecom company BSNL to launch its IPTV services in India.

They have already started the trials of this service on the BSNL Broadband network in Bangalore.

This collaboration was confirmed in a notification sent to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

BSNL broadband is one of the largest broadband service providers in the country with around seven lakh broadband ADSL subscribers all over India. They recently upgraded their network to provide speeds of up to 2 mbps to their customers.

IOL Broadband added that they have also signed a revenue sharing agreement for its IPTV Service with Anytime. Anytime is a consortium of major Hollywood Studios including Disney, FOX, Warner, and Universal. This would allow them to broadcast unreleased movies on IPTV services.