The Indian telecom regulatory authority TRAI has finally spoken against the monopolistic practices of the state owned BSNL. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Pradip Baijal has cautioned the BSNL against any possible measures it might take to monopolize the infrastructure that can be used to give broadband a greater push.
Baijal was speaking at a broadband seminar, organized by Bharat Exhibitions in New Delhi. He blamed BSNL for not letting the private players use their network for expanding the broadband network throughout the country. This is seriously slowing down the rate of broadband availability in the country.
He also talked about the measures taken by the Andhra Pradesh government, which took an alternative way to launch their own alternative cheaper broadband fiber optic network through private-public partnership. They had to take this step after the government owned BSNL quoted high rates for usage of its fiber line for this purpose.
This is ironical considering BSNL’s network has been developed using the public sector money contributed by the citizens of the country. It would be interesting to see how the story develops in the coming days and if the government takes any serious steps to make sure that, the public funds are used in a proper manner to help the common man vying for decent broadband connectivity in this country.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
TRAI blames BSNL for stagnating broadband connectivity in India
Posted by DesiBaba at 1:56 AM
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I had a different experience with BSNL, I had their broadband connection in Bangalore which I got with an investment of about Rs.5500 (installation, modem purchase, deposits, etc). Then I shifted to another house in the same area - and asked BSL to shift my connection. It has been 4 months since I did that, they have not done anything yet. Airtel came 3 months ago, dug up the road one day, laid the cable and put the box the next day and came from door-to-door offering broadband for just 500 bucks (refundable!)
Now BSNL is saying that the Corporation is not giving them permission to put the cable since the distance is more than 200 meters from their pillar. One official told me that the Corporation has 'siezed their tools'!
So the private operator seems to have done his job quickly and swiftly while the govt agencies are fighting with each other!
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