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Government own telecos, BSNL and MTNL are going to start selling high speed Internet in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangalore, Madras and Hyderabad on January 15, 2005. The 256 kbps service will cost $11 a month. Packetology analysts say that MTNL is buying from Ericsson and BSNL is buying from Huawei and UTStarcom. Continue »

Esme Vos: “To make it much easier to pass anti-municipal broadband laws, someone has drafted and passed around ‘model legislation’, a sort of DIY, fill-in-the-box document to various state legislators who can introduce it as a bill to prevent municipalities from deploying wired and wireless broadband networks.” Continue Reading.. Continue »

Voice over IP software/softswitch company, Syndeo Corp., is said to be out of business. The news comes from prety reliable sources, though I have not been able to confirm the news with the company. I sent an email to the company PR lady, but it bounced back. The company had raised a total of $98 million in venture capital funding from the likes of Redpoint Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital, large cable operators, and others like Sumitomo, Sun Microsystems, Meritech Capital, Intel Capital, Scientific Atlanta. Continue »

I am not sure if it really means anything but, 26.7% of GigaOM readers are using Mozilla or some variant as their browser, while Internet Explorer is at 21.46%. Among the feed readers, Feed Demon is #1 with 7.65% share of the RSS traffic, while Net News Wire is #2, and NewsGator is #3 followed by Sharp Reader. 54% users are on Windows, while 13% are on Mac OS. Rest are on Unix, though everyday 24 or so use their Web TV browser to connect. (Those readers are hard core, for they have to put up with slow downloads and bad browser experience!) There is a new OS called “unknown” which is used by 28.97% of GigaOM readers. Continue »

The New York Times: Microsoft does have one suggestion for those who cannot use the latest patches in Service Pack 2: buy a new personal computer. By the same reasoning, the security problems created by a car’s broken door lock could be solved by buying an entirely new automobile. The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. “It’s like buying a car,” he said. “If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model.” Continue »

Siemens sold about 13 million Juniper shares for about $344 million based on selling 13 million shares of Juniper stock at a price of $26.50 per share. Siemens share is now down to 4.2% or 22.8 million shares. In case you were wondering, the company got stock when it sold Unisphere to Juniper in 2002. “Siemens rivals (in areas such as VoIP/telco access equipment) could have fewer reservations about deals with Juniper ultimately yielding financial benefits, or at least fewer financial benefits, for a rival,” says CurrentAnalysis. Continue »

Andy: After a few days of periodic usage of the Broadvoice WiFi phone, I’m missing both Vonage and CallVantage. Next trip up I’ll try VoicePulse the same way. Sure it works, but the handset just doesn’t sound as good and I’m finding some termination to cell phone issues as the party on the other end has asked what phone I’m using. Clearly people who one regularly speaks with can tell the difference. Continue »

MobileTracker: Just weeks after Siemens announced it was working on technology to transmit 1Gbps wirelessly, NTT DoCoMo has gone and done the same. While these are not the only technologies. There is a lot more other technologies which even higher speeds, like Flarion’s OFDM and IP Wireless’ technologies. Continue »