Serendipity : Musings of an Islander

Solution to poor internet connectivity in the offing : TRAI launches M y S peed app to assess service quality of operators across I ndia Debkumar Bhadra         |        Musings of an Islander   |        South Andaman A recent news item in local dailies took the islanders by surprise which read B harat S anchar N igam L imited (BSNL), A ndaman & N icobar C ircle has been awarded the B est P erformer's award by the G overnment. Islanders who have been having a tough time dealing with prolonged poor telephonic and below par internet service set social media afire, expressing their anguish at the proposition that came from the CGM himself. Some termed it as “shocking” some said it is “ J oke of the Y ear” someone wrote “it amounts to adding insult to injury” while a few rejected it for being “fake” and “fictitious”. There is one more statistics that ...

CALL DROP : BANE FOR A CONSUMER - BOON FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDER TRAI seeks comments from stakeholders on Compensation to the Consumers in the Event of Dropped Calls By Debkumar Bhadra  | Musings of an Islander  | South Andaman The issue of frequent call drops has put telecom subscribers at the receiving end for long. In the absence of suitable safeguard, telecom subscribers are penalized for no fault on its part whereas T elecom S ervice P rovider ( TSP ) who is apparently at fault ends up richer with every instance of a dropped call. It is therefore no surprise that TSP’ s did precious little to resolve the issue in the past and continues to look the other way in the present. However this is not going to last any further since continued inaction on the part of TSP’s had ultimately caught the attention of regulatory authorities. Recently while reviewing the status of mobile connectivity in the country, P rime M inister S hri N arendra...