Airtel

After switching over to HTC Touch, I did have a tough time configuring MMS on the handset. Matters were made worse by Airtel's "amazing" customer care service. Initially I was told that the settings would be sent to my phone and that this would avoid the pain of doing the manual configuration. The settings never came; after few more calls to the customer service, I realized that my old Sony Ericsson phone was still registered in Airtel's database and they were trying to send the wrong setting. I finally was able to manually configure the settings not with the help of Google but with little assistance from NowSMS. So if you are stuck with configuring MMS for Airtel on a Windows ...

Anyone who has visited or stayed in Bangalore would have definitely experienced the horrible traffic while commuting within the city.

Bangalore Traffic Police in association with Mapunity and Airtel have come up with a comprehensive urban traffic information system for Bangalore city know as Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS)

Mapunity Information Services is a Bangalore-based developer of geographic information systems primarily for government departments, civil society organizations, and development initiatives of commercial ventures.

With BTIS:

You can get real time information about the traffic conditions within the city.

There are

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On March 1st I requested Airtel to switch my current 256kbps unlimited plant to 2Mbmps limited (3GB) plan. (For more details on Airtel new plans, check this post)

After making multiple calls to Airtel customer service, the plan switch is finally done today.

Nice to see downloads happening at 1.5-1.8Mb/second and nice to watch YouTube videos without any "buffering" :)

However access to my blog is still hopeless !! I guess I should switch to a better hosting !!

By the way anybody knows about a good bandwidth tracking tool ? With my previous unlimited bandwidth plan, I didn't have to worry about usage, but with the current 3GB limitation I ...

BSNL has slashed tariffs on Broadband services which is effective from 1st Jan 2007 The highlight of the new tariff plan is the 2Mbps bandwidth being offered across all plans. However there is also a disclaimer in the form of this statement - Wherever technically feasible ! Unfortunately I use Airtel Service and I am hoping that they will also revise the tariffs soon !

With the advent of DSL, Internet access speed in India has improved a lot. There was a time when I used to download files at 1/2 KB/s and now with my 256kpbs broadband connection, I can get a maximum of 30KB/sec.

The best connection a normal consumer can get as of today is the 512kbps connection which translates to around 60KB/sec download speed. Airtel and BSNL are the major players in the DSL arena.

However from the past few months many are finding it difficult to get a DSL connection and both Bharti and BSNL are saying that they are upgrading their infrastructure to support more users.

This post in Hindu gives a good analysis of what the

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