On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 October 2009, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> in-line :- >> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 21:52, Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]> wrote: >> > http://dot.gov.in/miscellaneous/publicnotice.pdf >> > >> > and also see this >> > http://www.medianama.com/2009/10/223-indian-government-wants-telcos-to-re >> >gister-wifi-users-within-60-days/ >> >> This is definitely bad news for potential users of technology (including >> me) >> >> Also, you apparently find it difficult to understand the notification. >> Nobody is interested in users having passwords to log into private >> networks, the notification asks for all users to be centrally >> registered with the ISP. This is a backdoor method to empower ISPs to >> begin identifying subscribers on the basis of numbers of users per >> subscription ID, and the logical next step will be differential rates. > > The poster has got it wrong. The notification asks "All internet and Broadband > users using WIFi connectivity" to register with the ISP. That is if you have > an internet / broadband connection (that would include ADSL / LL / Dialup), > AND use a wifi router, you have to register AGAIN. To get an internet > connection you have to register anyway, nothing new there.
Not quite. Here is the extract from the notification received by Tata Communications, and hosted on their website (and quoted in the MediaNama article): [I.a.iii: Licencee (Telco) shall ensure that unique user IDs and Passwords do not have provisions for simultaneous multiple logins. Licencee may give more than one use ID and Password to a single subscriber for multiple for his Internet account I.a.iv: Licencee shall put a clause in Subscriber Agreement of new subscribers that any WiFi connectivity deployed by subscriber has to be activated only after it is registered for centralized authentication with the Licencee.] This means not only that the subscriber has to register again (naturally, as Mr Kaiz of MediaNama comments fame notes, you won't mind spending that extra time, effort and paise to save your loved ones from being, like Napoleon, blown apart), but that she must also ensure that all her users (family members, guests) must also be registered. Or else she gets the chop, chop, chop, in four months, and the ISP can laugh all the way to the bank. In fact, this gives a superb excuse for the ISP to cut off services to customers at will (not that they really need excuses). -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
