Alliance vs Jio Fiber : Tariff Comparison

West Bengal’s top broadband provider, Alliance Broadband has expanded their coverage outside Bengal. It is now available in Bangaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. 

For the uninitiated, Alliance Broadband has became the top broadband player in West Bengal for last 7-10 years, beating the state-owned BSNL. Technically Alliance was offering cable broadband while BSNL relied on ADSL technology initially, but both now have moved to Fiber in most of the areas. Fiber offers faster data than cable or ADSL, and maintenance charge is also low. For last some years the cost of rolling out fiber has been declining due to huge deployment across the globe. 

At present I have both Jio Fiber and Alliance Fiber connection at my home. Downtime is rare with Jio, while Alliance has some 30hr+ downtime in my area, thanks to local operator. Also during thunderstorm Jio never goes off - making it seamless internet experience. 

Jio Updates: Jio Enters into Satellite Internet Biz

This update which came in February, 2022 is actually a big update, though Jio did it silently - Jio enters into satnet biz by founding Jio Space Technology Limited (JSTL) by creating a JV with Luxembourg based SES (Société Européenne des Satellites). 

Jio owns 51% of the JV, while SES holds the remaining 49%. SES is already an established player in satcom business and newly formed entity will use multi-orbit space networks that is a combination of geostationary (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellations capable of delivering multi-gigabit links (upto 100Gbps) and capacity to enterprises, mobile backhaul and retail customers across the length and breadth of India and neighbouring regions.

EV Boom in India, Nexon EV vs Nexon EV Max

India is getting its EV boom in the 4-wheeler car market. Lead by Tata Motor’s flagship Nexon EV the car market is bound to change in coming years. Though luxury car makers like Audi, Jaguar, Porsche have their EV models, but these cars never are aimed for mainstream. And it would be shameful not to mention Tesla, which may have 1/3rd of EV car market in America and Europe, is yet to be present in India. 

Tata Motors has launched their upgraded Nexon EV as Nexon EV Max, and will roll out Tiago EV soon. They already have another EV - Tigor EV. That would make Tata Motors with maximum EV offerings in India - 4 EV cars. At a point Tata Motors can be India's answer to Tesla. 

Other EV cars in India are - MG ZS EV (from Rs 20.88 L), Hyundai Kona Electric (from Rs.23.71 lakh), Mahindra e-Verito, Mahindra e2oPlus.

And those are already in the list to be launched are, Mahindra e-KUV100, Nissan Leaf, Mahindra XUV300 EV, and Tata Tiago EV.

Interestingly top automaker in India, Maruti Suzuki is yet to be join the EV race. As per reports, Maruti Suzuki is working with Toyota for a mid-sized EV SUV, codenamed YY8. 

Shoes in India for Men - Top Brands & Websites.

Though Emizentech's data of 2021 shows nearly 70% of internet users use mobile apps for shopping and more than 50% of internet traffic generating from mobile devices, I still like the desktop browsing. 

This is a list of shoe brands available in India. These links are useful to check the official price, but mostly I would find them cheaper on big giants of Indian e-commerce portals like AJio, Amazon, Flipkart or Tata CliQ. 

Jio Updates: Jio's Tower Arm Got New Branding under New Ownership

It is a late update #1 on Reliance Jio. 

Back in December 2019, Jio announced Canada-based Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP and its institutional partners (including Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC) would bought Jio's telecom assets through some complex deal. The valuation was Rs 25,215 cr. In September 2020 DoT cleared the transaction.

Summit Digitel Infrastructure, which is the new name of the tower arm of Jio Infratel under new ownership, currently has 1,51,000+ operational telecom sites. 

Website of Summit Digitel: https://www.summitdigitel.com/

Facebook page of Summit Digitel: https://www.facebook.com/SummitDigitel/ 

In March 2022, BSNL has inked a pact to use Summit's passive infrastructure assests, while in April Airtel did similar agreement with it. 

In December 2020, Summit Digitel joins Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA). 

TAIPA has members like: Indus Towers Limited, ATC Group Companies, Tower Vision, Ascend Telecom Infrastructure, Sterlite Technologies, Space World, Coslight, Suyog Telematics, Applied Solar Technologies, iBus Networks and Summit Digitel Infrastructure.

TAIPA did a makeover in September 2021, as Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA) (https://dipa.co.in/). The rebranding came in the time to reposition itself as the representative body for digital communication industry players while aligning with future industry requirements.

List of India's telecom tower companies - here.

The article is a part of tracking Reliance Jio. 

Windows 11 Experience - Issues and How to Solve it

This year (2022) I bought a new laptop - HP 14S - running on AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics 2.1GHz, which comes with Windows 11 Home version. 

This article is made to list the issues faced with Windows 11. Back in 2005, I was on Windows XP on my first desktop, when many computer users were still stuck to Windows 98. Windows got smarter but I skipped next generations of Windows, and again back to Windows with Win 7 with new laptop in 2008. Win7 is stable experience on the oldie. But had to move on to a new laptop, as I have transition to Windows 11 in 2022. 

Noting down my experiences on Win11, as follows. 

Mavenir Backing Open RAN Aggresively & Curious Case of India's 5G

Way back in September 2020, I wrote up on Open RAN networks and how it is reshaping future of telecommunications globally. After 1.5 years that O-RAN is very much alive and getting more traction from the industry. ORAN is now widely accepted globally. For those are uninitiated, Open RAN (Radio Access Network) offers the flexibility to the service providers to use hardware and software solutions from different companies in multiple layers. It's something like to use open source software.