Looks like you were ill-informed. India atleast in the last 2 years is awashed with fibre optic cable, most of them are lit and serving the booming outsourcing, BPO and the local wireless carriers. Almost all software companies are connected thru multiple paths (optic fibre, satellite links, leased line). Bangalore is connected on the fibre to almost all the major world wide optical links (FLAG, SAME, SEMEWE etc). The primary links are Bangalore to Chennai and Vizag then onto Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and ending up on US West coast, and through Cochin and Bombay with connections to Europe, Gulf and Africa and Eastern US. Many local telecom providers have laid dedicated ocean cable connections: India to Singalore, Gulf Regions, Sri Lanka, Mauritius connecting to numerous world wide fibre routes which land in those respective locations.
Incidentally the biggest owner of undersea fibre cable in the world is an Indian Company! go figure..
The phone service has definitely improved tremendously, in particular the wireless service, almost all providers have excellent coverage and call quality is excellent and unlike in US the call drops are almost no-existant and to top it all they have a great CDMA service, which would put Sprint/Verizon to shame in terms of service quality.
Well, this was being done earlier. But since the early 80's, Indian students came over to US,UK for their higher graduate degrees, worked with US companies gained insight into the US/UK 'way' of doing business. These are the folks who are heading back. The middle management kinds. Traditionally the Indian disapora is spreadout pretty far and wide working under several different local business conditions.
The Quality of the students is definitely
dependent on the curriculum, atleast that is how
most of the top schools in US would evaluate
the credentials for the Master's program.
Switching tracks, I have had first hand experience with Australian Masters degrees which in terms of curriculum are behind the US. In most cases an Indian Bachelor of Engineering degree is almost a bachelors and 1/2 of US master's degrees combined. There are several universities in Australia too where one can get in by buying a place, and except a few (Univ of Melbourne, Monash, UTS Sydney, ANU) most universities have mediocre ratings.
I am not convinced by your statement In the US you mostly buy a place Agreed you can pay yourself through an expensive school, but getting in is pretty tough especially to the top rated schools and in terms of standards the US Masters degree is definitely onpar or if not higher than most Australian and European degrees and definitely they are uptodate with the prevaling market trends and technologies....
Hard to love CDMA service by Sprint PCS, the coverage is lousy even in metropilitan areas. I have seen the phones change from Digital -> Analog Roam -> No Service etc etc, all while walking *slowly* from the front door to the kerb about 20 ft away!.
First they need to fill holes and provice better voice coverage before heading into xG...
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Looks like you were ill-informed. India atleast in the last 2 years is awashed with fibre optic cable, most of them are lit and serving the booming outsourcing, BPO and the local wireless carriers.
Almost all software companies are connected thru multiple paths (optic fibre, satellite links, leased line). Bangalore is connected on the fibre to almost all the major world wide optical links (FLAG, SAME, SEMEWE etc). The primary links are Bangalore to Chennai and Vizag then onto Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and ending up on US West coast, and through Cochin and Bombay with connections to Europe, Gulf and Africa and Eastern US.
Many local telecom providers have laid dedicated ocean cable connections: India to Singalore, Gulf Regions, Sri Lanka, Mauritius connecting to numerous world wide fibre routes which land in those respective locations.
Incidentally the biggest owner of undersea fibre cable in the world is an Indian Company! go figure..
The phone service has definitely improved tremendously, in particular the wireless service, almost all providers have excellent coverage and call quality is excellent and unlike in US the call drops are almost no-existant and to top it all they have a great CDMA service, which would put Sprint/Verizon to shame in terms of service quality.
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Well, this was being done earlier.
But since the early 80's, Indian students came over to US,UK for their higher graduate degrees, worked with US companies gained insight into the US/UK 'way' of doing business.
These are the folks who are heading back. The middle management kinds.
Traditionally the Indian disapora is spreadout pretty far and wide working under several different local business conditions.
The Quality of the students is definitely dependent on the curriculum, atleast that is how most of the top schools in US would evaluate the credentials for the Master's program. Switching tracks, I have had first hand experience with Australian Masters degrees which in terms of curriculum are behind the US. In most cases an Indian Bachelor of Engineering degree is almost a bachelors and 1/2 of US master's degrees combined. There are several universities in Australia too where one can get in by buying a place, and except a few (Univ of Melbourne, Monash, UTS Sydney, ANU) most universities have mediocre ratings. I am not convinced by your statement In the US you mostly buy a place Agreed you can pay yourself through an expensive school, but getting in is pretty tough especially to the top rated schools and in terms of standards the US Masters degree is definitely onpar or if not higher than most Australian and European degrees and definitely they are uptodate with the prevaling market trends and technologies....
Hard to love CDMA service by Sprint PCS, the coverage is lousy even in metropilitan areas. I have seen the phones change from Digital -> Analog Roam -> No Service etc etc, all while walking *slowly* from the front door to the kerb about 20 ft away!. First they need to fill holes and provice better voice coverage before heading into xG...
In fact the mLife offers TDMA phones as part of their promotion, so looks like ATTWS got completely confused waht the actual aim of mLife promotion.