I do not take issue with the proven efficacy of REAL competition and
FREE market forces. But the keywords are REAL and FREE. In a land
where the make-believe is readily accepted in lieu of the real thing
by its intelligentsia EVEN when the truths are open for all to see
and that need to tell the world they are no push-overs as far as
modernity is involved, the nuances of the REAL and the FREE takes on
huge importance. One only needs to look at the ENRON saga. Are there
Enron like goings on in the cellphone industry in Assam? I don't
know. But from the comments I heard from users from Guahati to
Dibrugarh to Namti to Tawang--I have to suspect there is.
The fact of Dhubri's or Guahati's or Namti's lack of paved roads,
reliable electricity or potable water or sanitation systems and the
governments' failure that it points to ought not to be issues to be
forgotten or
explained away as mere ideology rooted failure of governance and
thus implied that it could be all remedied by the 'free market gods'
is where the fallacy is.
That Indian governance is dysfunctional has little to do with
ideological hang-ups but everything to do with deeply faulty systemic
and institutional structures that Indian intelligentsia has neither
been aware of nor have been willing to tackle.
At 9:07 PM +0000 11/19/07, Malabika Brahma wrote:
Soon Reliance and others will be forced to improve their service if
they want to survive and prosper.
But they have achieved to provide at least rudimentary service in
5/6 years of operation (in cell phones) which government failed to
provide for (take electricity) in last 60 years.
My village in Dhubri district does not yet have regular electricity,
paved roads and clean water supply (we rely on wells) after 60 years
but does receive NextTel cell phone signals.
People who never had land phone lines had cell phones as the first phone.
mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE:
10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Cellphone Cos are like "Indian IT
Miracles".
Each one is a Benami shadow of likes of
Eriksson/Siemens/Nokia/Motorola.Even screws are imported.- mostly
from China. Customs do not hold them for Minutes. And they were/are
being milked for Upfront+Below the Table n000Crores@ time for
licensing CeNtrallyat Delhi
Remember Pramod Mahajan's Brother fuming and shooting him dead
-----"You took 5000 crores and did nothing to US?"
Currently there is something bigger happening-all Hush Hush:
Reliance trying to corner huge Spectrum(allowed to be a cOuntry's
right by ITU rules)and all the other players crying out loud"You
cannot do that".
So they can Cheat the Economy as they like--Licensed to Kill.
{Compare mine --a few Welding/Sawing machines not released by
Kolkata Customs"Where is it written--the address of the Party to be
Notified?"And of course I have to be penalized for Demurrage that
longer.As per Rules. Nedfi--Oh they are Busy Developing Look
East!!! }
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0600
To: [email protected]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Assam] Indian Cell Phone Myths
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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.
Utpal
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