As you may well aware, BSNL has partnered with a private company for managing email services offered by it to its broadband clients ( @dataone.in). The email solution of this private company is branded as XGEN. This partnership raises many issue.
1) To promote this service, BSNL is resorting to unethical :redirection: policy to redirect users to its promotional page www.mail.bsnl.in. This is discussed widely in many forums as well here BSNL Broadband is randomly redirecting users to their webmail service‽ | Page 7 • BSNL Broadband • India Broadband Forum.
2) Can BSNL offer its subscriber base to a private company? Most of the bsnl subscriber go to bsnl just because it is a public sector company. But, BSNL ignoring this sentiment itself goes to a private company.How fair and safe is this arrangement?
3) If at all, this is ok, the next question is how do they select their partner. Among all the available similar e mail solution companies in India, how did they select this particular company?
4) The copyright is held by the private company. I have not heard a public sector company promoting a privately copyrighted product anywhere-else.
5) Even the fevicon on the address bar that appears with www.mail.bsnl.in shows that of the private company icon/logo XGEN, not BSNL. This is outright takeover of BSNL by a private entity on virtual world.
6) The BSNL broadband users do not have any knowledge of the agreement/ terms etc between BSNL and this private entity,
I would like forum members to share their opinion on this.
1) To promote this service, BSNL is resorting to unethical :redirection: policy to redirect users to its promotional page www.mail.bsnl.in. This is discussed widely in many forums as well here BSNL Broadband is randomly redirecting users to their webmail service‽ | Page 7 • BSNL Broadband • India Broadband Forum.
2) Can BSNL offer its subscriber base to a private company? Most of the bsnl subscriber go to bsnl just because it is a public sector company. But, BSNL ignoring this sentiment itself goes to a private company.How fair and safe is this arrangement?
3) If at all, this is ok, the next question is how do they select their partner. Among all the available similar e mail solution companies in India, how did they select this particular company?
4) The copyright is held by the private company. I have not heard a public sector company promoting a privately copyrighted product anywhere-else.
5) Even the fevicon on the address bar that appears with www.mail.bsnl.in shows that of the private company icon/logo XGEN, not BSNL. This is outright takeover of BSNL by a private entity on virtual world.
6) The BSNL broadband users do not have any knowledge of the agreement/ terms etc between BSNL and this private entity,
I would like forum members to share their opinion on this.
