Now that the iPhone 3G is being brought to India, somebody had to say something….
“We are thrilled to be working with Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom company, to bring iPhone 3G to millions of mobile customers in India,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product in the hands of even more people around the world.”
Now, what else possible could they have said. I am sure that they’re working with so many telecom companies, that remembering the name of each one of them must be a pain in the behind. Agreed, AT&T will have a soft spot in Apple’s heart, but in the case other comparatively insignificant markets like India, why would they care.
The reason I’m calling India a comparatively insignificant market is because they think so. I mean, considering the number of mobile connections we have in the country, I think that we can say that we’re a strong contender.
But, they haven’t even rolled out the plain vanilla iPhone, and they’re already spouting malarkey about releasing the brand new iPhone 3G. Gimme a break…
Tags: Airtel, Apple, iPhone, News
Ahem, Arjun…you wanted a confirmation. Here it is. I didn’t edit the pic.
And you, Ankur, will be happy to know what the download is about! Whenever I need to break free to a zippy environment, Linux is my choice.
Tags: Airtel, Internet
Hmm, there seems to be some trouble with my internet service provider, Airtel. The point is that I earlier had a 128KBps speed unlimited connection. They later upgraded that to 192KBps connection.
But that was OK, now, today, I find that…
There isn’t a speed limit.
Yeah, that wasn’t a ghastly typo or anything. Speedtest.net is reporting my actual speed to be above 2 MBps, and rising. So, couple that with a faithful internet connection and a BitTorrent client. 
I’m loving it!
Tags: Airtel, Internet
Actually, India is becoming the “hub for global outsourcing” … so cliché. Anyway, the thing is that this outsourcing is actually only for *international* outsourcing, meaning whatever comes in from abroad. But, the country too needs its own fair share of call centres. Apparently, we’re just getting the scrapings of the barrel (and barrel it is – too many call centre “executives“)
Anyway, let me tell you my experience. Not the whole experience or anything, just one things I’d like to point out, which could’ve gotten him fired if he was working for a MNC abroad. I had called up the Airtel Call Centre, because my internet was on the blitz.
Tell you what, I’ll take it up in points.
- It took me two tries to get to the call centre.
- I had highlighted where the problem was, the modem, just needed to get that fixed, but the executive goes through the whole process. Kinda irritating.
- I got disconnected while he was transferring my call to the technical division. Had to go through the whole process AGAIN!
- The BEST part – I was exploring the depths of my modem firmware with the executive when he suddenly realised that I had a D-Link Modem. He goes like …
Oh SHIT, you have a D-Link modem.
No sorries, no nothing. Just shit. Could’ve gotten him fired. I think I should have told him…
Tags: Airtel
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