Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, December 23 2009:
The state owned BSNL's broadband despite its introduction in this township some years back, resembles a farce as the number of days it was worth nothing supersedes its actual working days.
For the past one month or so, for reasons best known to the department, the BSNL broadband fails to constantly function for a day, and added to the subscribers' apathy was the constant degradation of it services.
The erratic broadband service of the state run BSNL has also forced many vernacular media houses in the district to run after private services such as Tata's Photon or SIM based GPRS providers.
As the private players are yet to introduce the speed resembling that of the BSNL and the high price they charge for their service, these houses including Cyber Cafes and individual surfers were affected the most.
Despite the proximity of the district to the state capital and all weathered road connectivity, the information technology that was supposedly assumed to break the barriers fails to connect the local populace of the district with the other world and the many complaints lodged with the telecom office here barely falls on the ears of two technical assistants that were simply entrusted by the irregular officers including the JTO.