gregory house
philosopher-in-chief
3 years ago? I am still on dial up (much faster than the VSNL-BSNL crap I used to have, though).
TRAI got the competition heated up and thats lead to us having the cheapest telephone services any where in the world.
The govt. basically allowed an oligopoly to come into place when it limited the number of players in each circle. That is why people were paying 16 rupees a minute. It is only after Mukesh Ambani came in that things started moving.
The TRAI is near-useless as far as consumers are concerned. Couldn't even settle the Tata-Sky Sun dispute. They had to go to TDSAT. If they hadn't reached a compromise, it would be another two years before we had a sunrise. A catalyst is only required if a thing can't burn on its own. If the government pours water when a thing ignites, what is the point of even having a catalyst?
But without TRAI and a sensible Govt things can only get worse
TRAI, I might (I stress might) be able to live with. But a sensible government is an oxymoron. Have never seen one and have no hopes of seeing one.
Unbundling of the last mile won't turn crooks into hermits overnight (Valmiki was a once-in-a-lifetime incident). Tata, Reliance, Sify or the others are not suddenly going to be customer friendly. They have no idea of what customer is. I have a theory which goes like this - any organization with over 100 employees automatically starts behaving like a government department - and nothing that I have experienced has made me change my view.
I agree with you about the defense services coz we in Pune have faced similar problems over the setting up of an international airport for more than 15 years now. Even the existing domestic airport is tightly controlled by them. Maybe they should thing of shifting the Southern Command to a sparsely populated area instead of situating it bang in the middle of a growing city.
Unrestricted competition with zero entry barriers is the only way things can be good. Companies will provide good service only when they are frightened-to-death of mass customer migration to a competitor.
TRAI got the competition heated up and thats lead to us having the cheapest telephone services any where in the world.
The govt. basically allowed an oligopoly to come into place when it limited the number of players in each circle. That is why people were paying 16 rupees a minute. It is only after Mukesh Ambani came in that things started moving.
The TRAI is near-useless as far as consumers are concerned. Couldn't even settle the Tata-Sky Sun dispute. They had to go to TDSAT. If they hadn't reached a compromise, it would be another two years before we had a sunrise. A catalyst is only required if a thing can't burn on its own. If the government pours water when a thing ignites, what is the point of even having a catalyst?
But without TRAI and a sensible Govt things can only get worse
TRAI, I might (I stress might) be able to live with. But a sensible government is an oxymoron. Have never seen one and have no hopes of seeing one.
Unbundling of the last mile won't turn crooks into hermits overnight (Valmiki was a once-in-a-lifetime incident). Tata, Reliance, Sify or the others are not suddenly going to be customer friendly. They have no idea of what customer is. I have a theory which goes like this - any organization with over 100 employees automatically starts behaving like a government department - and nothing that I have experienced has made me change my view.
I agree with you about the defense services coz we in Pune have faced similar problems over the setting up of an international airport for more than 15 years now. Even the existing domestic airport is tightly controlled by them. Maybe they should thing of shifting the Southern Command to a sparsely populated area instead of situating it bang in the middle of a growing city.
Unrestricted competition with zero entry barriers is the only way things can be good. Companies will provide good service only when they are frightened-to-death of mass customer migration to a competitor.
let the Multi Billion corporations break each others necks and slug it out in court trying to kill each others 
