A smaller ‘hole in the wall’ you cannot imagine. A small fading sign
on the top saying “Cellphoon Reapars” barely visible through the
street vendors crowding the Juhu Market in Mumbai. On my way to buy a
new Blackberry, my innate sense of adventure (foolishness) made me
stop my car and investigate. The ‘shop’ was not more than 6 feet by 6
feet. Grimy and uncleaned.

‘Can you fix my Blackberry?” I asked the young boy.

‘ Of course I can, show me”

” How old are you”

‘Sixteen’

Bullshit. He was no more than 10. I am not handing my precious
Blackberry to a 10 year old in unwashed and torn T shirt and pyjamas!
At least, if I buy a new Blackberry in a proper Store, they would
extract my data for me. Something I have been meaning to do for over a
year now.

‘What’s wrong with it?”

‘Well, the roller track ball does not respond. It’s kind of stuck and
I cannot operate it”

He grabs it from my hand and looks at it

“You should wash your hands. Many customers have same problem. Roller
ball get greasy and dirty, then not working’

Look who was telling me to wash my hands. He probably has not bathed
for 10 days.

I leaned across to snatch my useless blackberry back.

” you come back in one hour and I fix it’

I am not leaving all my precious data in this unwashed kids hands for
an hour. No way.

“who will fix it ?”

‘Big brother’

‘ How big is ‘big brother?’

‘big …. umm ..thirty’

Then suddenly big brother walks in. 30 ??? He is no more than 19.

‘What problem ?’ He says grabbing the phone from my greasy hand into
his greasier hand. Obviously he never got trained in etiquette by any
up-market retail store manager.

‘Normal blackberry problem. I replace with original part now. You must
wash your hand before you use this’

What is this about me washing my hands suddenly ?? 19 year old big
brother rummages through a dubious drawer full of junk and fishes out
a spare roller ball packed in cheap cellophane wrapper.
Original
part? I doubt it.

But by now I am in the lap of the real India and there is no escape as
he fishes out a couple of screwdrivers and sets about opening my
Blackberry.

“How long will this take?”

” Six minutes ”

This I have to see. After spending the whole morning trying to find a
Blackberry service centre and getting vague answers about sending the
phone in for an assessment that might take a week, I settle down next
to his grubby cramped work space. At least I am going to be able to
watch all my stored data vanish into virtual space. Unknown strangers
crowd around to see what’s happening. I am not breathing easy anyway.
I tell myself this is an adventure and I literally have to stop myself
grabbing my precious blackberry back and making a quick escape.

But in exactly six minutes this kid handed me my blackberry back. He
had changed the part and cleaned and serviced the the whole phone.
Taken it apart and put it together. As I turned the phone on there was
a horrific 2 minutes where the phone would not come on. I looked at
him with such hostility that he stepped back.

‘you have more than thousand phone numbers ?”

‘yes’.

‘backed up ?’

‘no’

‘Must back up. I do it for you. Never open phone before backing up’

‘You tell me that now ?’

But then the phone came on and my data was still there.
Everyone
watching laughed and clapped.

This was becoming a public street show. A six minute show.

I asked him how much for his effort and the new roller ball part.

‘500 rupees’ He ventured uncertainly.

People around watched in glee expecting a negotiation.

Thats $ 10 dollars as against the Rs 30,000 ($ 600) I was a about to
spend on a new blackberry or manage a couple of weeks without my
phone. I looked suitably shocked at his ‘high price‘ but calmly paid
him, much to the disappointment of the expectant crowd.

‘Do you have an Iphone ? Even the new ‘4? one ?

‘no, why”

‘I can break the code for you and load any ‘app’ or film you want. I
give you 10 film on your memory stick on this one, and change every
week for small fee’

I went home having discovered the true entrepreneurship that lies at
what we call the ‘bottom of the pyramid’. Some may call it piracy,
which of course it is, but what can you say about a two uneducated and
untrained brothers aged 10 and 19 that set up a ‘hole in the wall’
shop and can fix any technology that the greatest technologists in the
world can throw at them.

I smiled at the future of our country. If only we could learn to
harness this potential.

‘Please wash your hands before use’ were his last words to me.

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According to our previous post here, the attacks were one of the worst in the history and it moved whole world.

My take on it?

Well, firstly I would salute Indian soldiers and police team who fought continuously against the terrorists for hours and the verdict is definitely a token to their hard work that they have put in. Secondly, Ok fine Kasab will be hanged.. but When ? I mean it took over a year for them to decide what is to be done and now it’ll take one more to punish him? I mean I know Indian courts are not  punctual, cases go on for generations.. but cases like these should be taken foremost..

And finally taking about Kasab, I think he shouldn’t be hanged? Yes I am in my senses when I write this. I mean he doesn’t deserve death so easily. He should be tortured so much that he begs for death (a typical Hindi film dialogue, but still feels perfect punishment for such terrorist). I think that he should be given such severe punishment that no other terrorist even dares to think about it.

Anyhow, alls well that ends well. Lets see what happens next. Patiently waiting for the next update on this

Jai Hind

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Its a year older and 12 months mature

Hope to get it bigger and bigger !!

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Amidst the rising Bareilly communal violence for which she has been criticized in New Delhi, Mayawati gave a hard hitting answer by taking out a Rs 200 crore rally (Rs 2000 million), trying to prove that her people are all united and stand one for her. She has been in criticism for quite a while for the violence that erupted in Bareilly. Since the passing of Women Reservation Bill, she and her party has been protesting for the fact that there is no separate quota for the Dalits in the bill. She calls all the other parties who approved the bill as Anti-Dalits.

This massive rally took place on Monday on the 25th anniversary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and was attended by a million people. The entire event costed a whopping 200 crore rupees (or 2000 million rupees)! Besides the regular arrangements, a 30 bed hospital comprising 200 doctors and around five hundred paramedics was build exclusively for this event. For the decorations, a 1000 quintals of flowers were brought from various parts of the country. Nearly 1600 government buses and five thousand private buses were arranged for the transport of public to the event. In order to dress up the city in blue color (which is the color of BSP), 1 million LED lights were utilized. And God knows what all was done for this event.

But where is that unique stunt from this politician? Every politician takes out rallies so whats so different this time? Guess what! Besides this rally being expensive, a special Garland was presented to Mayawati which was made up of Indian currency notes. It was made out of thousands of 1000 rupees notes, totally amounting to few million rupees. Now that’s the latest stunt from Indian politician!

Even though the event was a massive success, it angered the public at large. The entire event was conducted at the cost of Public money. Although Income Tax Department is already on its way to probe the funding, Mayawati clearly says that this money came as donations from the supporters of her party and her people. There was a huge “Dog fight” in the parliament today, with congress and BJP demanding for probe into the funds spent on this event.

In a country that is neck deep in debts, poverty stricken, wounded by communal violence etc, such events in which public money is flaunted for self advertising only shows what kind of people are running the country. Are these the politicians we select by giving our vote?

I was just calculating, if one state can generate Rs 200 crores from public donations, then imagine how much would 35 states (i am including the 7 union territories) generate? It’s simple Math. 35 X 200 crore = Rs 7000 Crore! That’s nearly Rs 70,000 million which comes to around $1.5 Billion!

So what would India prefer doing? Advertise these politicians or clear of its Debts? Isn’t it easy to clear of our debts with the World Bank?

Hope the World Bank doesn’t read this post

It’s high time that people begin to excise their vote properly. If they cannot find a proper candidate to vote, just don’t vote! Atleast you will not regret selecting the wrong candidate. All the Taxes that we pay go into the fat bellies of these politicians.

Jago India Jago..

Jai Hind

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Is Metro a success?

No second thoughts on whether Delhi Metro is a success. Every Delhitie will proudly say YES. You can see hundreds, no thousands of people traveling via Metro each passing day. Kashmiri Gate comes and the train gets filled up, gets empty on Rajiv Chowk

Kashmiri Gate is the largest metro station till now. Metro is going to be extended upto the NCR region soon and Delhities are eagerly waiting for it.

Why Metro is success?

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Fully Air Conditioned
4. Connects major places
5. Secure

Problems?

The Metro is constantly becoming popular, but Govt is not able to cope up with this. The security checks are good, but lose sometimes. The trains are late and late (actually on time according to Indian punctuality).

If you are interested in reading more, try reading

http://www.delhimetrorail.com/commuters/whats_new.html

I’ll keep updating on Delhi Metro when Common Wealth approaches.

Jai Hind

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1. You eat rice for breakfast.
2. Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
3. You remember or still use “the bowl” for haircuts.
4. Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
5. You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
6. Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
7. You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
8. You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
9. Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
10. You never made the school football or basketball team.
11. You have two middle initials instead of one.
12. You have an inherent “fear” for bamboo feather dusters.
13. Your “hot” date is going to your parent’s house to have “jook”.
14. Your living room sofas have covers on them.
15. You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
16. You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
17. You sneak in snacks at the movie theater.
18. Your grandmother smell like mothballs.
19. You’d bring home a Caucasian friend and “popo” would be cooking something that smelled like it had died a week ago.
20. You were told you all look alike.
21. You know how to pinch someone with your toes.
22. You graduated from UCI or knows of someone who did.
23. You would drive around the block 10 times rather than pay for parking.
24. You have a hard time pronouncing “aluminum” and “lobster claw”.
25. You truly believe that your neighbor could use that old sweater rather than throwing it away.
26. You would take that sweater if you were your neighbor.
27. You would stand in line for hours and hours for a free gift whether you needed it or not.
28. You have clothes in your closet that is coming back in style.
29. You’ve seen every Bruce Lee movie.
30. You still have your old slide rule.
31. You never order chop suey or egg foo young.
32. You have a relative or friend who works as a waiter or cook.
33. You prefer your chicken and shrimp served with heads and feet still attached.
34. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
35. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table (that’s why you need a vinyl tablecloth).
36. Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.
37. You buy on sale 100 rolls of toilet paper and store them in a closet or in a vacant room when your adult child moves out.
38. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas when its 50% off.
39. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
40. Your stove is covered with tin foil.
41. You have stuff in your freezer since the beginning of time.
42. You have never used your dishwasher.
43. You use your dishwasher as a dish rack.
44. You boil water and put it in the refrigerator.
45. You keep a thermos of hot water available at all times.
46. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
47. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
48. You eat all meals in the kitchen.
49. You bring oranges or other produce with you as a gift when you visit peoples homes.
50. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
51. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully to save and reuse wrappings and bows.
52. You feel like you’ve won the lottery if you didn’t have to pay tax for an item.
53. You starve yourself all day before going to an all you can eat buffet.
54. You stop dialing 411 information when they started to charge for each call.
55. You only call long distance after 11 PM.
56. You suck on salty preserved seeds for a sore throat.
57. You keep a stash of Li Hing Mui at home.
58. Your eyes resemble dime slots when you laugh.
59. You know what the term “FOB” and “ABC” means.
60. You laugh at Martin Yan’s jokes not because he’s funny.
61. Your parents have a glass jar of preserved limes aging on top of the roof.
62. You own a wok.
63. You know what a “bow” is…and it doesn’t mean to bend over.
64. You never eat fried foods when you’re sick (it creates phlegm and hot air).
65. You would prefer your fish entree staring at you on the dinner table.
66. You never discuss your love life with your parents.
67. Your parents still use a clothes line.
68. You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you’re never going to use them again.
69. You keep most of your money in a savings account.
70. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.
71. You’ve joined a CD club at least once.
72. You keep used batteries.
73. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
74. You’re always late.
75. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don’t eat the last piece of food on the table.
76. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
77. Your dad thinks he can fix anything.
78. You live with your parents and over 30 years old (and they like it that way). And if you’re married, you live in the apartment next to your parents, or in the same neighborhood.
79. Your parents house is always cold.
80. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
81. You never use measuring cups.
82. You reuse tea bags.
83. You tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.
84. You never call your parents to say hi.
85. You always cook too much.
86. Your parents always ask you if you’ve eaten, even though it’s midnight.
87. Your parents send money to their relatives in China.
88. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay inside when you’re sick.
89. You have a drawer full of used pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
90. You know all the waiters at your favorite Chinese restaurant.
91. Your parents never go to the movies.
92. You notice at dances, a wall of guys standing together trying to look cool.
93. You iron your own shirts.
94. You play a musical instrument.
95. You don’t own any real Tupperware, only used margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.
96. You never leave any leftovers on the table in a restaurant. You have it put in boxes or finish it.
97. Your ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard in the refrigerator are all “Price Club-size”.
98. You have an assortment of condiments and utensils from fast food takeouts stuffed in a drawer.
99. You never order for room service.
100. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine, or law.
101. Your parents are never satisfied with your grades.
102. You own a rice cooker.
103. You buy rice in 50 pound sacks.
104. You wash rice 2 to 3 times before you cook it.
105. You steam something on top of your rice while its cooking.
106. You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
107. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.
108. You always carry a stash of food when you travel like preserved plums, beef jerky, or dried cuttlefish.
109. Your parents vehemently refuse the sack of gold coin oranges that their guests brought to be courteous.
110. You know what MJ means.
111. You pick your teeth at the dinner table, but you cover your mouth.
112. You have a piano in the living room.
113. You live in an apartment and your parents always want you to come home.
114. You have a rice cooker to check in at the airport when you travel.
115. You grow your own bean sprouts in the kitchen.
116. Your mother made you peel water chestnuts and snow peas.
117. You have an lonely unmarried relative who frequently drops by during dinner time.
118. You received little red envelopes containing money on special occasions.
119. You use the underside of a porcelain bowl to sharpen your knives.
120. You cut your own hair…or had someone in your family do it.
121. Your grandmother has a lot of gold teeth…especially in front.
122. You keep fresh garlic and ginger in the kitchen at all times.
123. You know what the term “lemon” or a “banana” means.
124. You only have to shave every other day (maybe).
125. You tell your friends that you’re starting a new mustache when you really had it for several months.
126. You wash and reuse ziplock bags.
127. You save your children’s halloween candy and give it out the next year.
128. You either love or hate “mooncakes”.
129. You know at least three people named Alan Wong.
130. Your parents constantly complain you use too much toilet paper when you go to the bathroom.
131. You hated that black herb medicine that your parents forced you to drink when you were sick.
132. Your parents have kitchen towels made of old cloth rice bags.
133. You never drank milk after eating cherries.
134. You’ve swallowed those tiny “BB’s” with hot tea for a tummy ache.
135. Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm.
136. You’ve asked your parent’s help on one math problem and 2 hours later they’re still lecturing.
137. You shop at 99 Ranch Markets.
138. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friend’s kids.
139. You’ve had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
140. You’ve had to eat parts of animals that they don’t even put in hotdogs.
141. You have piles of shoes and slippers blocking the entrances to your home.
142. You have no eyelashes!
143. Your idiot friends try to impress you with pathetic imitation languages, like the ever so popular “ching chong woo bok chi”…etc.
144. Your biology lecture on marine life (seaweed, octopii, sea cucumbers, etc.) was last night’s dinner.
145. You have at least one family member who wears black wire or plastic framed glasses.
146. You have several relatives who wear glasses…thick glasses.
147. You like $1.75 movies
148. You like $1.50 movies even more!
149. Your parents never kissed you…your parents never kissed each other.
150. Your friends ask you to translate the scribbles on chopsticks (like you really know what it means!).
151. You call all your parents friends “auntie or uncle”.
152. You get nothing if you do well in school, but get in big trouble if you don’t.
153. Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees…you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
154. Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can “grow” into them and wear them for years to come.
155. Your family always cheer for the Asian athlete competing (eg. Michael Chang, Michelle Kwan, etc).
156. Your parents or relatives have goldfish swimming in an aquarium.
157. Your first generation relatives have a statue of an obese, bald-headed man surrounded by children.
158. Your parents collect jade jewelry.
159. Your friends from China think anything from the old country is considered “good stuff”.
160. You know not to eat the oranges or tangerines arranged in a little pyramid.
161. You always drink tea after a meal.
162. Your dad owns at least one bird.
163. Your parents grow vegetables in a garden.
164. You use doilies to decorate your furniture.
165. Your friends automatically assume you’re good at math.
166. You are good at math!!! (the hell with humility).
167. You know how to pick out the meat in watermelon seeds with your teeth.
168. Your grandmother rapped your knuckles with her chopsticks while reaching food with your fingers.
169. You are now planning to Email this list ASAP to another Chinese friend!

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If you see the many payment processors they are having little tough time of making money. Many pyment processor like moneybooker.com , alertpay.com are struggling to take the market share. But paypal made a million $ profit from indian market in just 10 days that to from only Indians.

you can see one blog post about paypal tactic of making money by holding users money in bank and enjoying the interest of that money.

Here is a sample transaction from my paypal account

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -$200.00 USD

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Cancelled Transfer Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details $185.22 USD

i lost 14.78$ for their crappy processing system

so just imagine how much money they have made from this kind of scam from all paypal indian users.

when we withdraw they gave currency rate 44.7817

now when they adding to amount they want 48.35 ( even now it is 46 )

so basically it is a well planned scam from paypal company.

After these lot of idiotic moves this company not given any explanation still. Because it knows how effectively scam users withouth being caught in the legal way.

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22. Use Nope for No and Yep for Yes.

21. Tries to use credit card in road side hotel.

20. Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.

19. Sprays deo such so that he doesn’t need to take bath.

18. Sneezes and says ‘Excuse me’.

17. Says “Hey” instead of “Hi”.
Says “Yogurt” instead says “Curds”.
Says “Cab” instead of “Taxi”.
Says “Candy” instead of “Chocolate”.
Says “Cookie” instead of “Biscuit”.
Says ” Free Way ” instead of “Highway”.
Says “got to go” instead of “Have to go”.
Says “Oh” instead of “Zero”, (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven
Zero Four)

16.Doesn’t forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.

15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)

14. Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible (but deep down the heart multiplies by 43 times).

13. Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk pocket.

12. When need to say Z (zed), never says Z (Zed), repeats “Zee” several times, if the other person unable to get, then says X, Y Zee(but never says Zed)

11. Writes date as MM/DD/YYYY, on watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY, says “Oh! British Style!”

10. Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and Indian Road Conditions.

9. Even after 2 months, complaints about “Jet Lag”.

8. Avoids eating more chili (hot) stuff.

7. Tries to drink “Diet Coke”, instead of Normal Coke.

6.. Tries to complain about any thing in India as if he is experiencing it for the first time.

5. Pronounces “schedule” as “skejule”, and “module” as “mojule”.

4. Looks suspiciously towards Hotel/Dhaba food.

3. From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of Airways by which he traveled back to India, even after 4 months of arrival.

2. Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India, tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.

Ultimate one:
1. Tries to begin conversation with “In US ….” or “When I was in US…”

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Dear SENDER,

Your payment of $XX.XX has been returned to you. If you sent the payment with a bank account, the funds will be returned to your PayPal balance. If you paid with a credit card, the amount will be credited back to your card.

We returned the payment to you because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may resend the payment to the seller by following these steps on the PayPal website: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment, such as a gift to a friend or family member, then we request that you find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,

PayPal

Now, thats really unfair on Paypal’s part. People are contacting paypal with literally no good support apart from copy pasted content.

Here is the digital point thread – http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1681660

If you want to raise your voice against the discrimination, spread the word!

Here is paypal’s comment on this – https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/personal-payments-and-local-bank-transfers-in-india/

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Airtel’s shares plunged over 6% on Friday. With the latest round of tariff cuts impacting the financials of all companies, Bharti Airtel’s CEO Manoj Kohli talks to ET NOW on the road ahead and how India’s largest telecom company plans to respond to competition. Excerpts:

Bharti Airtel’s shares crashed close to 7% despite posting profits. The stock has closed at year’s low and has lost 18% this year. Are you concerned?

At Bharti, we don’t look at our performance based on the reaction of the stock markets. We look at the real market and we are satisfied that we have improved our marketshare even as competition is heating up.

But, your market share has fallen over the past 12 months…

When we refer to market share, we refer to revenue share. Bharti accounts for about 32.7% of the mobile sector’s revenues. This indicates the quality of our customers are better and that their usage is higher. Over the next few quarters, our primary objective is to improve our revenue market share.

How long do you expect the ongoing price war to continue? What is Bharti’s strategy ?

The tariff war is set to continue for the next few quarters. This will lead to a natural and spontaneous consolidation in the Indian telecom industry. It is very difficult to predict as to how many operators will survive the price war, but the larger operators will emerge stronger. Also, tariff war is not a new phenomenon — we have seen several such rounds in the past. We will not get into offering irrational pricing or free minutes. Our response will be segmented. We will rollout specific tariff plans for select geographies and certain segments of our customers… The company has a three-pronged strategy for growth. The first is to remain the leader in market share — both subscribers and revenues. We are also working towards creating new revenue streams. Bharti is already one of the lowest cost producers of telecom minutes in the world and our objective is to become the most efficient operator in the world.

Is the honeymoon period for Indian telecom sector over considering all the recent developments?

I do not agree with that. This sector remains robust and offers a great growth potential of touching a billion mobile customers. The tariff war is a temporary phenomenon as we have seen similar incidents in the past. The sector will bounce back soon — in the medium to long-term perspective, telecom holds massive opportunities for growth.

Bharti has cash reserves of over Rs 6,000 crore. The base price for pan-India 3G spectrum is Rs 3,500 crore and even if the bids were to go up to as high as Rs 5,000 crore, Bharti can meet it from its reserves. Does this imply that you will not be required to raise funds for the upcoming auctions?

Probably yes, but I cannot comment on that. We will definitely participate in the upcoming 3G auctions and this opens up a new revenue stream for us. Yes, we have cash in our balance sheet, but for strategic reasons, we cannot reveal as to how much of it will be utilised for the 3G auction. We maintain our earlier position that Bharti will rollout 3G services by October 2010, if the auctions are held on time.

There has been a freeze on 2G spectrum allocations for the past couple of months. This may continue for the next one or even more quarters. Bharti’s adding close to 9 million new customers every quarter. Can you sustain this growth without additional spectrum allotments?

It has been several months since we and the industry have been allotted 2G spectrum. This sector requires regular flow of spectrum to support growth as well as the quality of services. Since airwaves allocation has stopped, we have been forced to install more towers and take other steps that have increased our capex. A majority of the growth is coming from rural India and we are not confronted with a spectrum scarcity in these regions.

Personally i would like to put up a question.The 4g has been introduced abroad.THEN WHY THE HECK DON’T WE DIRECTLY SWITCHOVER TO IT INSTEAD OF IMPLEMENTING 3G?

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