As an addendum to my previous response on the matter of the quality
of private services as in cell-phone, I would be remiss if I did not
share what I heard during my recent trip to Assam:
*** That service is uniformly bad thruout Assam. And the worst is
the darling of the private enterprise
advocates: Reliance; so much so that there was some kind of a 'Bandh'
against purported Reliance deceit of consumers.
I was loaned a cellphone from a new service provider by a relative,
which, amazingly worked from my native village at remote Namti, but
would not work from some of Guahati's most important localities such
as Beltola and Rajgarh.
*** Most surprisingly the cell phone service that generally is
acknowledged to be the most reliable across Assam is that provided by
the Indian Govt. operated BSNL, but at a cost. Apparently it is the
most expensive of cell phone services.
So much for the conventional wisdom about public vs. private
enterprise in India, specifically as it relates to cell phone service
in Assam.
At 5:06 PM +0000 11/18/07, Malabika Brahma wrote:
Cell phone services are available all over India at a very
reasonable rate with excellent service, however electricity is not.
This is because cell phone was considered a luxury and hence left to
the market forces whereas electricity was considered essential and
left for the government to provide.
Government always messes up whereas fair market dynamics does not.
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