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To: DanD who wrote (38662)	12/31/2003 10:34:54 AM
From: straight life	Respond to of 197013

Wired broadband, is my take. "Reliance has invested about $2.85 billion in a 85,000-km fibre-optic network criss-crossing the country and offers services in 700 towns and cities. "We are on track to expand our network to cover more than 3,000 towns and cities in about a year," said Bajpai. The group is also aggressively wooing users with high-speed mobile data services such as video downloads and Web surfing. "This is going to be our key initiative for the next few months. We have hundreds of applications in the waiting room," said Bajpai, who listed gaming as a high-growth service. By early 2004, Reliance plans to offer its broadband services to businesses in 30 cities. "We are doing pilot launches and have almost reached the final stage," said Bajpai." "This involves wiring up about 200,000 buildings through which we are targetting close to a million customers," he said. Reuters

To: DanD who wrote (38662)	12/31/2003 10:36:20 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 197013

"Wiring up" in this context sounds more like installing base stations that are accessible to 200,000 buildings. The Reliance system, which uses a wireless local loop, requires wired lines interconnecting the base stations. Many of these lines are part of the existing infrastructure. The last wired link would be between the base stations and the wired infrastructure. Art

To: DanD who wrote (38662)	12/31/2003 12:36:38 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 197013

Reliance IndiaMobile is one year old. IndiaMobile is part of Reliance Infocomm, which is one of ten or so divisions of Reliance Group, which accounts for a big chunk of India's exports and of the government's tax revenues. (There's also a small Reliance Telecomm division with vestigial GSM service) The vision is of an integrated telecommunications/ infocomm network. Rx: ril.com Seems like only when you've got people and business used to having (dependent on/addicted to) high-speed data available that 3G attains orbit. Always has been all about ubiquity. Fiber, DSL, WLAN... all impetus toward liftoff.