The fact that there is free enterprise in India in businesses like cell phone
,cars and information technology, itself tells you that the political systems
are changing and paradigms are being broken.
I agree India is not yet at the point where impatient netters want her to be
but think of all the impediments against progress. It is amazing that the trend
of India's progress is steadily upward by all counts.
If someone has a magic formula to fix India's problems in an instant, I am
sure GOI would be willing to listen. We would also be interested in hearing it
firsthand.
Dilip Deka
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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!!! }
mm
---------------------------------
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0600
To: [email protected]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Assam] Indian Cell Phone Myths
.ExternalClass blockquote, .ExternalClass dl, .ExternalClass ul, .ExternalClass
ol, .ExternalClass li {padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;} 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
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now.
_______________________________________________
assam mailing list
[email protected]
http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
---------------------------------
Post free auto ads on Yello Classifieds now! Try it now!
_______________________________________________
assam mailing list
[email protected]
http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now.
_______________________________________________
assam mailing list
[email protected]
http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
_______________________________________________
assam mailing list
[email protected]
http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
_______________________________________________
assam mailing list
[email protected]
http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
