Mysorean

Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL ), the country’s largest telecom player, is coming out with an offer bundling PC and a broadband connection for a monthly EMI of Rs 500-Rs 650 in a move that may spur PC penetration in the country.

So, BSNL has been doing more good work than the others in its field. This move must help BSNL achieve the numbers that Dayanidhi Maran wants them to by the end of 2006. Maran wants the internet connections to reach the 1 million number a la telephone connections. Noble intentions. All the best to Maran and his ministry and the BSNL to achieve this.

My idea of the future is that every Telephone Service provider will slowly get into providing broadband [well yeah, that's the present!;)]. And since the cap on broadband is decided by the PC penetration, they will look to bundle PCs alongwith their broadband connections like BSNL is doing now.

The dealers will realise they are benefiting most out of this kind of arrangement and lobby more for the schemes such as BBPC (BroadBand + PC). But customers, who are not technically skilled, will realise they are not able to use their PCs much. There will be a high downtime because of virus attacks, etc.

This is where Novatium's Nova NetPCs will play a role. It fits in perfectly. Any support necessary will be available at a phone call. Once the grid is ready it is just a matter of plug and play! :)