On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). >
Actually, a rather amusing afterthought: seems that the government is perfectly happy if subscribers use their Bluetooth phones to tether their broadband 3G/Edge/EVDO connections to anonymous users. HDSPA anyone? _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
