Anurag Bhatia

Anurag Bhatia

Potential of 3G in India

Many people (including me) dislike 3G for the fact that it has low caps, varying speeds, bit high latency and lastly super expensive. Well, all that is true, but still 3G makes lot of sense. How ? Today I had a very interesting experience where I saw a farmer siting … Read More

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Decline of landline in India

Two weeks back, a great-old cordless phone died at my home. It was just giving too many issues including poor voice, and no ringer sound. I just un-plugged it and added a backup old phone (the one we got from BSNL). It was just an “ok-type” replacement since no wireless … Read More

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Do We Really Need Fiber To The Home (FTTH) in India?

Carrying on with my previous post about broadband connectivity in India, I will be talking about FTTH i.e Fiber to the home. What is FTTH, brief introduction to technology behind it, and scene of FTTH in India. To get idea of fiber to home, we first need to understand basic difference … Read More

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Understanding Last Mile Connectivity

Continuing to my last post about why broadband is so poor in India.In last post I discussed little bit about “last mile”. There were few confusions, let me first clear them out before I end up topic about last mile.Someone left comment on last post and said The pvt. telcos … Read More

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Why Broadband Is So Poor In India?

You must have thought few times – why really speeds are so slow. If not slow, then you have “capping”. Fact is – most of broadband connections in India are “capped” in either speeds or in usage. When you can get 2Mbps speed for 250Rs a month plan, why speeds … Read More

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Blogspot-Airtel Problem: Our Analysis

There have been lot of news about Airtel blocking blogspot today. Well, did they really blocked it? It’s very hard to give a direct answer to that. Firstly, I believe that Airtel must have not intentionally blocked whole blogspot.com domain name (well they are a big ISP, and I don’t … Read More

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IP Telephony And India

You must have seen really cheap calling rates from IP telephony providers like Skype to US, and European countries. Infact for US, you can get an unlimited calling plan to all phones for as low as $3 a month. Why no such thing in India? One can call US phones … Read More

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