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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (7226)	9/26/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12475

Congress will emerge single largest party: Exit poll New Delhi, September 26: The exit poll conducted by Marathi newspaper Lokmat has predicted that the Congress and its allies have emerged as the single largest group with 201 Lok Sabha seats, surpassing the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) 200 after Saturday's penultimate round of Lok Sabha polling. The poll conducted by Lokmat-IMS-CMCR had predicted 201 seats for Congress and its allies against 200 seats for the BJP and its allies. The reasons cited are the slide in the fortunes for the NDA in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and improved chances for the Congress. A Lokmat-IMS-CMCR release said that in the fourth round of polling, Congress allies will secure 42 out of 74 seats that went to polling on September 25. The study claims that BJP's allies in the NDA continue to retain their tally of 70 Lok Sabha seats while the BJP suffered a loss of 30 seats it held in 1998. The BJP, the studies said, will have to be contented with 29 seats in Uttar Pradesh against its tally of 43 of 54 seats in 1998. The Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal are expected to pick up eight of 24 seats that went to polls on Saturday. The Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are expected to mop up the remaining four seats. The NDA is expected to be ahead of its rivals in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh while the Congress will 'open its account' in a big way in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh. The exit poll was conducted in 83 constituencies with a sample base of 19,875 voters in 11 states in all the four phases. india-today.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (7226)	9/26/1999 8:37:00 PM
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Lucent Sees E-Commerce Potential In India By Uday Lal Pai India Correspondent (Internet Asia) [September 24, 1999--MUMBAI] The US telecom major Lucent Technologies is entering Indian Internet market with its Inter-Networking Services (INS) division. It will focus on India as a strategic e-commerce market to provide solutions and systems to infrastructure builders. Lucent has already bagged contracts from some ISPs for its faster and cost effective digital subscriber line (DSL). "We are negotiating with Videsh SAnchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited and other major private players," said Hirendra Gupta, country manager, INS. Meanwhile Mike Butcher, president and CEO (Asia-Pacific) of Lucent Technologies, who was in India recently, informed that India has been identified as a strategic market since the country needs a one-stop provider of entire telecom and e-commerce solutions. "We are looking at the increasing opportunities and the huge infrastructure planned here as we have presence in communications systems and solutions, optic fibre cables and business enterprise solutions" Butcher said. However, the newly formed division - INS - hopes to tap 60 per cent of the market share in near future, claims company sources. Gupta refused to divulge the details of the contracts it bagged. INS was formed in July after telecom major merged its Internet operations with the operations of Ascend technologies, another US telecom major, after it was bought for $ 24 billion. Though the merger was announced in January and completed in July. According to Gupta, ISPs in all three segments have evinced interest in the DSL technology, which will provide 64 K, and 120 K connections at one tenth of the existing charges. "Some of them are already providing the service using our technology which will further revolutionalise the connectivity and service operations in this segment," Gupta added. Besides, the DSL technology, the INS division will market their Remote Access Servers (RAS) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches to ISPs and other telecom companies in India through the vast Lucent network. Lucent technologies has recently entered into a marketing alliance with Electronic Resources India Limited (ERIL) - a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Electronic Resources Ltd - for distributing the company's Systimax structured connectivity solutions and WaveLan wireless connectivity solutions in India. Incidentally, Lucent has established a Bell Labs R&D centre in Pune to develop software for its business communications systems and Octel messaging division. This undertake key changes in technologies to suit particular countries. In India, the company has strength of 1400 employees.