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Received following article from a friend (anonymous coward) ;).

Maharashtra: Indian state bans Orkut

Rumours of massive big brother system planned in India

The worst assumption I have heard everywhere in the world about India is that its a free country. The parts of public life in India are only free because those in power didn't see it existing in a big way until now e.g. the Internet. People who visit India only feel free because parts of the system can be bought and it is possible to wholly live out of the big brother system that affects every part of life of a normal law abiding, tax paying Indian individual.

hi guys....

same story repeats here again, "you" big on promises zilch on delivery, and not to mention their world class "customer service"...non existent... am attaching copies of the various emails i sent to their customer service email addresses, faxes sent to their corporate office and also of course the calls to the call centre, i'm yet to hear from them....
"thinrhino" dude, got to hand it to you, keep up the good fight, would be highly obliged if you could fwd the CEO's contact details, hey another suggestion, would getting in touch with their big bosses in the US of A..if nothing else their customer service would improve... it needs a big kick anyways... any suggestions/contact info would be welcome...

Amarendra posted following article on newsgroups, which I thought is worth sharing with everyone :)

The entire construction business is a total *fraud*. There are no
benchmarks, whatsoever, for prices/sq.ft.. It is totally upto the
builder lobby to fix the prices, and the excuse of steel and cememt
prices going up is absolute laughable.

Unfortunately, the builders' are not the only people to be blamed -
the consumers' are more responsible for this. Why are we ready to pay
any price demanded by the builder? We conveniently forget all the
frauds' done by the builder to us, just because we wish to own an

Saw good number of articles on YOU telecom, so thought of sharing my experience too.

Mine is with TATA INDICOM.

I feel like they have recruited some +2 passed kids for there customer support center

Case1: (~37 calls)
I asked them to change the user info; it was in the name of my roommate. I wanted the bill in my name so that I can get it reimbursed from office. It took my some 37 calls to there call center to get name right at least on bills
On account info the name is still old & there engineer call me by old name only.

Case2: (~13 calls)
ICMP was not working one day; I called up & told them.

28th September, I get a call from Mr. Satish. "Sir, we are changing the loop of your connection and hence your IP address will change. May I go ahead." I give him a go ahead. After sometime, I get a new IP Address and the speed has improved from the previous ~5 to 10 kilo Bytes per second to now around ~20 to 25 kilo Bytes per second. I told him, I shall monitor the speed for one week from now and then revert back to you. A similar feedback was sent on e-mail to Mr. EVS Chakravarthy.

29th September, in the afternoon I receive a call again from Mr. Satish, "Sir, can we come over to your office to see the connection speed?" I answered affermative!