Sify Broadband fries a customer’s laptop
Sify Broadband continues to provide broadband services through LAN cables which travel on rooftops, trees and electric poles.
This means that the LAN cables sometime comes in contact with the electric wiring resulting in electricity traveling to customer’s computers through the network cables.
A member on the India Broadband Forum reported that [...]
~ Creates awareness on Global Warming in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai ~
Chennai, Thursday, 27th March, 2008: Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq Global Markets: SIFY), a leader in Consumer Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities, is campaigning in four Indian cities and encouraging businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple [...]
F-Secure offering now covers nearly half of all of broadband customers in India through leading Internet service providers
Hyderabad, India -Jan 10, 2008 — F-Secure Corporation today reached a significant milestone in enabling the online wellbeing of broadband users in India when it announced its cooperation with Sify Consumer Broadband to provide data security to the [...]
How to take on ISPs when they fail to provide acceptable services
TATA Indicom (VSNL), Sify, Airtel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance… all have a long way to go in providing good services to the consumer in India. All need to be made accountable for what and how they do things – and that, my friends, will [...]
Sify Broadband users continue to suffer from poor wiring
I personally remember the time when I was a Sify Broadband customer. The service was pretty bad and there were massive downtimes.
But the worst memory related to Sify Broadband remains of the time when I saw one of their network switches submerged in rain water inside a [...]
Satyam sells entire stake in Sify
One of the most recognized software companies in India Satyam Computer Services Ltd. has sold its entire stake in its former subsidiary Sify Limited. They sold the remaining share of around 31.61 percent in Internet firm Sify Ltd. to U.S.-based Infinity Capital Ventures Ltd. for $62.62 million.
Infinity Capital has also [...]
Is Airtel Broadband really Broadband as per TRAI?
TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) released a documentation quite sometime ago which laid out the Recommendations on Accelerating Growth of Internet and Broadband Penetration. The document clearly defined broadband as:
Broadband is an “An always-on data connection that is able to support various interactive services, and has the [...]
Just caught this on Neowin… McAfee have released the latest update to the Stinger antivirus, which is apparently sold in India for INR1500. The product specification mentions:
Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and [...]
I just got informed that Hutch has arrived in Chandigarh and is offering GRPS internet connectivity at 99 bucks a month. Which I totally find unbelievable. Airtel is offering same connectivity at 600 bucks. Since, I do have a GRPS enabled mobile handset (Panasonic GD 88), Why not use it instead of Sify Broadband which [...]
