Tata Indicom Broadband Sucks

Posted On Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 By Ravi

It really does. They have all sorts of weird billing systems, and they dont provide you service. Their local server at Pondicherry sucks big time, and it never works. Yesterday all day my sites were not opening. Only the most popular sites like yahoo and msn were opening and nothing else really was. Torrent downloads seemed to be working though, but it was not a connection exceed problem or anything like that. The sites were not working even when all downloads were stopped. And today, absolutely no data is being transfered, and the modem lights are just standing still. I dont understand what sort of service they are providing, and how they are still managing to be in business. I wonder how well their datacentre is maintained. I know a lot of people are hosting their websites with the VSNL datacentre in various parts of India, and have heard that they normally dont go down, and if they go down, they wont come up for a couple of days. They dont accpet payments with credit cards, they dont accept cash. They only take cheques. In an advanced age where people are using only credit cards and electronic clearing systems to Continue Reading

Ratan Tata Not good at Communications

Posted On Sunday, May 11th, 2008 By Ravi

Tata may be a world leader in steel, automobiles and stuff, but his recent venture of acquirng VSNL from the Govt of India and running that as an ISP in the brand name of Tata Indicom Broadband doesnt seem to be very good. Not at all to the expectations. And his phones suck too. Both the landlines and the mobiles. The compnay mnages to survive since all Tata employees are given a free Tata Indicom phone and made to pay the bills. I got so pissed off with BSNL that I had to look for a change, and the other ISP that is available in my area is Tata Indicom. If only I had airtel here, it would have been really great. Tata Indicom installed the internet line yesterday at my home. It has a speed of 512 Kbps and is fully unmetered, that means I can download round the clock. The installation charges is about Rs 1650, and there is a security deposit of Rs 1000. So the initial setup fee is Rs 2650. And the so called Post Paid connection is billed in advance. Meaning we need to pay for the month of May right in the beginning Continue Reading