All Mobile Operator Compatible 3G USB Data Card / Dongle Huawei E303c + E560 in India

December 29, 2011 · Filed Under Broadband, Mobile · 4 Comments 

Their can’t be a better news than the release of Huawei E303c and Huawei E560 3G USB Dongles for High Speed Mobile Broadband Access. Both are Network Independent Devices – Meaning Change your SIM and access 3G network of the new operator on the fly.

Huawei E303c This is a 3G USB Dongle Modem with which you can access 3G Broadband on your Laptop / PC / Tablets, etc irrespective of the Telecom Operator. E303c / E560 are compatible with Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Aircel and all other 3G Operators operating in India. Detailed Spec available here.

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Airtel Bucks the Trend – Raises Off-Net Tariff – Uninor + DoCoMo Offer Deals – Mobile Traffic Analysis

December 26, 2011 · Filed Under Mobile, Telecom · Comment 

India’s Largest Cellular Traffic carrier Bharti Airtel with 174 Million connections took the dare-devil step to arrest the falling Telecom tariffs by a 20% hike to 1.2 Paise/ Second, thus putting an end to 1 Paise / Second call regimeĀ  few months ago; other operators quietly followed.

Effective Today, Airtel has raised Off-Net [Airtel to other operator] Call Tariffs by 25%. What used to cost 1.2 Paise / Second will now cost 1.5 Paise / Second . However, this comes at a time when other Read more

LokSabha Website Security Compromised – Serving Malware / Badware like Indian Politicians

December 23, 2011 · Filed Under Web · 3 Comments 

It is no surprise that dozens of Indian Government Website security has been compromised for months / years, but who cares ? Oho! I did and approached the NIC Office near Bangalore GPO like an eminent citizen only to realize the Massive Red Tapism from top to bottom in the Hierarchy. That was the time when A. Raja was Minister for IT & Comm.

The Loksabha website that hosts questionnaire is serving malware / badware just like how most of our Politicians are serving the country ;-)

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Security Warning – Why Never Share / Use your E-Mail Passwords Elsewhere ? MyMakan Shutsdown Exposes + Entire User Database

December 19, 2011 · Filed Under Web · 1 Comment 

This Article has been in the Draft for quite sometime because the Webmasters of MyMakaan.com took long time to take the mortal remains of their website offline. Thought I’ll push it out. Their used to be a site MyMakaan.com operating in the Real Estate Classifieds category. The Site was very poorly Developed & Deployed, I should say. Searching for something made me land here and I was able to download most of the source code as well as Database of Users thrown wide open on the Internet. Too Bad!!!

  • Mortal Remains of Perl Code of MyMakaan is here.
  • Here is a sample list of Users and their Passwords [ I hope I am not doing any blunder here to be able to identify the user as Google once did exposing AOL Queries]
  • Number of Users who had “mymakaan” as their password is 4938 of which Read more

Wireless Data / Broadband – Percentage of Total Revenues + Risk = Caution to Reliance

December 8, 2011 · Filed Under Broadband, Mobile, Telecom · Comment 

Before I write about the M&A in Indian Telecom, I’d like to write a little more on the evolution of Wireless Data / Broadband services.

Investment Bankers and Strategists at Telecommunication companies are pitching that Data as the next Big driver for the sector, especially with the advent of cheaper access devices. Let us study the Rise of Data as Percentage of Revenues for Telcos in Asia Pacific – Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Malaysia. All these markets are ahead of India in the Telecom revolution and thus they have a lesson which Reliance / Mukesh Ambani and others can peruse through to learn from. Read more

Can Reliance LTE / 4G Disrupt the Indian Mobile Market ?

December 7, 2011 · Filed Under Mobile, Telecom · 1 Comment 

Reliance / RIL LTE / 4G the $8Bn Project has sent feelers that it will disrupt the Indian Data / Broadband services market with mere Rs 10 / GB tariffs when rolled out next year. But will this disrupt the Voice Telephony ?

RIL’s LTE / 4G StrategyRIL will focus on data and offer cheap (or free) voice calls on VoIP technology as a loss leader strategy to build a subscriber base. RIL would be better placed than the incumbents to offer higher data speeds, which it is likely to leverage to drive down data pricing. In addition, Read more

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