[Assam] Broadband--Connectivity--Pre-election Pep-talk,

Chan Mahanta cmahanta at charter.net
Sun Feb 22 06:46:30 PST 2009


That will help, won't it :-)?








At 11:43 PM +0900 2/22/09, Priyankoo wrote:
>On a lighter note, I hope in India they deliver electricity through those
>broadband lines.
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>On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>>  Exactly!
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>>  What good will the greatest of software  do, when the connectivity does not
>>  exist?
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>>  What should come first?
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>>         *** How will broadband connectivity be created in India's backwoods?
>>   Cable?
>>         Fiber optic/DSL ? Satellite? Or those decrepit and dysfunctional
>>  phone lines?
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>>         *** Compare that to use of existing electrical power lines to
>>  provide the connectivity.
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>>  So, Aiyars  big talk is just that. It has no substance and demonstrates a
>>  lack of fundamental awareness of what needs done. It is all about show.
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>>  At 1:34 PM +0530 2/22/09, mc mahant wrote:
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>>>  <Sorry, I didn't find enough to compare.
>>>  The first piece talks about the software side and the second piece is
>>>  about hardware.Aiyar did not talk about hardware at all.
>>>  Please clarify your question for the simple minded like me.
>>>  Thanks,Dilip>
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>>>
>>>  CLUES:
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>>>  The first pc. PROMISES new HARDWARE- does not mean anything more--The
>>>  Panchayats, NDA -time -CMC's are all  just surviving in some office-nobody
>>>  uses. Broadband never reaches Indian villages- certainly no Assam village.
>>>
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>>>  Obama -time "Enabling-all -homes" is bringing  the Broadband to Dixie and
>>>  to Hillbillies' HOMES--.
>>>
>>>  This will ENABLE ALL rural local economies-- net contributors in the
>>>  reviving.
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>>>  Surely  a lot more can /should be discussed.
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>>>  mm
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