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DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton doesn't just stand by...she actively works to offshore American High-Tech!

DAILY REMINDER: Hillary Clinton supports the offshoring of American High-Tech! Fuck you, Hillary!

Reliance is not India's first CDMA network. Others have already deployed networks that are showing signs of growth; in places like Chandigarh, for instance, the number of mobiles have outstripped the number of landlines for the first time in India. Reliance Infocomm's troubles are only partly because of regulatory concerns; the other more significant problem is that its distribution network for the phones is showing signs of failure.

Not that the telecom regulatory rules are okay, (here's a very interesting and candid interview with the telecom minister on the tussle and other aspects of reform), but let's not write off Reliance that easily. They are one of the largest Indian companies around and have succeeded even during the (socialist, insulatory) Licence Raj period in the petrochemicals industry, traditionally considered closed to private sector participation.

They've had some massive lobbying effort in Indian political circles; Roads and Buildings Dept employees often complain how they get calls from their political masters in the middle of the night because they threatened to go against Reliance Infocomm's country-wide road-digging and laying of optical fibre network (a process which, while admittedly professional and impressive, apparently bends a few rules here and there).

Let's face it:- these people are powerful enough to make rules for themselves. They won't give up so much investment without a fight.

Calcutta Telephones (or Kolkata Telephones) is a part of BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited), that was formed when part of the Department of Telephones, Govt of India was corporatized last year.

DIAS is not yet popular but is one of the new initiatives by this corporate entity to fight against the private telephony operators in Calcutta like VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited), earlier Govt company but now owned by the Tatas after privatization. Baby steps in the ultimate aim of being a completely independent private entity. So I don't think such a company will be considered by anyone as being a government entity. Also, people and corporations in India, unlike in US, blame individuals for their acts, not the government. BTW, India has one of the best governance model in the world, only to be let down by nepotism and corruption in all government sectors. However, inspite of that, the fact that India still exists and is successful as a country is because of its liberal and adaptable constitution.