[133925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Dec 20 08:34:19 2010
In-Reply-To: <4D0F1795.1020902@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:04:07 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is the monopoly operator in India=
.
> =C2=A0That photo isn't due to a situation where there were numerous diffe=
rent
> providers, it's due to ONE provider with a monopoly, doing a half-assed j=
ob.
DoT is the regulator - kind of like the FCC
The monopoly provider (still a very large one) was called BSNL [Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Ltd - India Telecom Company, Ltd] as opposed to VSNL /
Videsh ... (Videsh =3D Foreign)
VSNL was privatized some years back as you all know .. and as for
local phone service you can buy that from at least 4 or 5 nationwide
landline providers, besides several cellphone providers.
"Monopoly" is what there was like a decade back.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
