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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (3342)	12/4/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

VSNL too cuts internet rates NEW DELHI, DEC 3: State-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limted (VSNL) today cut down internet tariff by 30 per cent, in the face of stiff competition from private service providers following the opening up of the internet market. VSNL has revised tariff for TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol) that allows users to surf internet with own software and without the help of local telephone carriers and offered in a new package named "flexihour". expressindia.com As per the flexihour tariff, a VSNL TCP/IP access for the first 100 hours would cost Rs 3000. The user can renew the account at a tariff of Rs 3500 for 250 hours or at Rs 7000 for 500 hours at the rate of Rs 14 per hour, according to VSNL.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (3342)	12/4/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Shooting the breeze with Ashok Trivedi,Co-Chairman,MASTECH Corporation. Excerpts. 'Any government would have given us the red carpet; instead we got red tape! ...................... 'The significance of being Ashok Trivedi can be understood by analysing just one truth: Outsourcing is the source of India's software riches. Here is a reality that is too good to be false: Dearth of software talent and consequent wage bill inflation drove Americans to dip into India's large pool of code-writing and English-speaking workforce. But this is Wisdom 1.0. Since its release a little over a decade ago, every dog in the streets of Bangalore has learnt it backwards....' rediff.com