The telecom war!

Its been in the papers.... on the news channels..... even to the Prime Minister... the telecom war - Reliance vs Bharti / Vodafone.

Reliance (or Ambanis) - scoundrels of our country - the bribery masters due to which the Indian politicians are so well corrupted. Fact is while the other family businesses grew over a century, Reliance (the most unreliable) grew over a decade. Whats the catch? Other industries thrived international competition while India was still progressing from agriculture based economy to an industrial economy. In this era, Reliance Industries requested "protection", corrupted the politicians by offering bribes, evaded custom duties, manipulated enough to become a monopoly and drive competition out. Imagine, with this background Anil Amabni actually has the shame to say that the other GSM players are encouraging unhealthy competition and evading taxes /fees payable to the government. His claim that the GSM players are depriving the government to earn high revenues from the telecom sector by way of license fees are baseless and faulty prima facie. For once, Relaince Communication has a CDMA license and it wants to enter GSM with this license - itself shows that they are evading license fees. An over night submission of license fees for entry into GSM worth a few thousand crores of rupees is astonishing! How did Anil Ambani know that he's got the license without any press release of the same by the DoT? Why is he hell bent on the number portability feature in the metros only for GSM? And when he talks about healthy competition, why at all favour number portability out of the blues? The TRAI had suggested number portability 20 months back - why is this decision taken by the DoT over night without any intimation and transparency? Fact remains that Reliance wants to drive out all the existing GSM players and fancy its name in being India's largest mobile service provider. They did this earlier with the textile industry and now GSM. What is surprising is that they entered CDMA with a huge flop, and now their target is GSM. At the end of the day, it does not suit him declaring that there should be healthy competition. All that Reliance wants is monopoly. Reliance Comm received the worst customer service for this CDMA services! The DNA - mumbai newspaper has claimed that he has bribed the DoT and probably all the Lok Sabha members with more than Rs 200 crores for just getting an easy entrance into the GSM sector.
An old school time joke - 3G CDMA stands for 3 Gujrati Chor- Dhirubhai, Mukesh, Anil


Did you know? Reliance Industries - run by Mukesh Ambani - does not allow its employees to use Reliance Comm cell phones!


An acquaintance working for Reliance Industries told me " they charge me for my evening tea at office" He further added "They retained Rs 1 lac from my salary annually to be payable after 3 years of service!" This is the state of the largest industry in our country!

And to think about it, the Ambani brothers are the richest Indians - corruption jindabad!