India, Jio, and the Four Internets

Post by known » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 10:15 AM UTC

castevictim wrote: post #234

KorematsuFred wrote: post #221

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I see that claim being thrown around a lot but it does not have much merit IMO. India is very corrupt but then all companies know that already. There is nothing special that Reliance can offer that Vodafone or Airtel wont. In fact during the Congress government India saw the largest scam ever perpetuated by non-Reliance players. Reliance is also not a winner always. Reliance industries has burned its hands on retail,…

>People assign too much competence of current BJP government. That is mistaking its competence to get votes, retain power to competence in governance, the latter should have been very clear when it demonetized the currency plunging millions into poverty and economic turmoil from which the India has never recovered from. We are telling BJP is criminal, racist, and fascist political party(Its parent RSS directly borrow…

Post by ece » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 2:15 AM UTC

castevictim wrote: post #202

I think the lack of geographical proximity to Jio, didn't give Mr. Ben the complete picture of the forces at play. The story of Jio (Reliance) cannot be told without the political-corruption-nexus in India, by investing in Jio - Facebook, Google, Qualcomm etc. not only acquire stake in 'The Enterprise' of India but also guaranteed of political favors apart from access to data from millions of Indians through a single…

Post by sk0g » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 2:51 AM UTC

vijaybritto wrote: post #192

sk0g wrote: post #175

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Is it? A few replies here are mentioning being happy with ~40 Mbps in bigger cities, meanwhile the last time I ran a speedtest in a busy CBD in Australia I got 600Mbps or so on 4G.

Yeah cause this is a developing country and what we got was a few kb/s prior to this. This is a massive leap for us

Post by sassy_samurai » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

naruvimama wrote: post #239

castevictim wrote: post #234

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>People assign too much competence of current BJP government. That is mistaking its competence to get votes, retain power to competence in governance, the latter should have been very clear when it demonetized the currency plunging millions into poverty and economic turmoil from which the India has never recovered from. We are telling BJP is criminal, racist, and fascist political party(Its parent RSS directly borrow…

Fanta, Autobahn & Volkswagen are also products of the Nazis. One of the reasons Modi/BJP's opponents failed is because of the level of ridiculous accusations they level against them. An one point even staunch communists and Congress supports lost faith in their politics. I really do not understand how much people can hate the success of others. Contrast Reliance with the likes of Karunanidhi dynasty or the Gandhi dyn…

Post by mola » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 10:41 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #72

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A lot of infrastructure. A lot, industry is not tech. The world is not the US.

The article is specifically talking about internet-based companies, aka "tech". It seems to me you're confirming an absence of them, which to me invalidates your comment of 'who said unicorns are good?', because the absence suggests that the current model isn't working. It's true the world isn't the US -- can you point to successful internet-based EU companies that are big in both EU and some other part of the world?…