On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is the monopoly operator in India. That photo isn't due to a situation where there were numerous different providers, it's due to ONE provider with a monopoly, doing a half-assed job.
DoT is the regulator - kind of like the FCC The monopoly provider (still a very large one) was called BSNL [Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd - India Telecom Company, Ltd] as opposed to VSNL / Videsh ... (Videsh = Foreign) VSNL was privatized some years back as you all know .. and as for local phone service you can buy that from at least 4 or 5 nationwide landline providers, besides several cellphone providers. "Monopoly" is what there was like a decade back. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)