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So if IBM failed to acquire Sun, someone had to do the job. Looks like Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems for a total of $7.4 billion. The deal has been approved by Sun’s board of directors. With this acquisition, Oracle is set to become a major player in the cloud computing business giving a tough competition to rival IBM.
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Airtel Broadband has launched 16 Mbps high speed broadband plans for it’s customers across the country. Airtel was earlier providing a maximum speed of 8 Mbps on it’s ADSL network. There are two tariff plans that come with the speeds of 16 Mbps. Both of them cap your data transfer limit to 20GB, 50GB and are priced at Rs. 3000 and Rs. 5000 respectively. Apart from this the tariff plan also includes free calls worth Rs. 100. However the 16 Mbps speed is dependent on technical feasibility. It’ll be sweet if you’re located close to an exchange.
To me this comes as a surprise especially after a lot of speculations regarding Airtel Broadband’s fair usage policy coming into existence. It’s now confirmed that the fair usage policy has been implemented in Delhi/NCR as well.
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Reliance has recently launched it’s high speed wireless broadband service called Netconnect Broadband Plus in India. Reliance claims that Netconnect Broadband Plus is India’s fastest Internet service. It offers a download speed of around 3.1 Mbps and an upload speed of 1.8 Mbps. Seems pretty decent knowing it’s a wireless service. Netconnect Broadband Plus is available in 35 cities with some 20,000 towns across the country.
The service is powered by the Reliance CDMA network. Currently Reliance is offering two plug and play devices for connectivity. These USB modems are priced at around Rs. 3500. The subscription plans are somewhat flexible and starting from Rs. 299. There are night unlimited packages as well as 24X7 unlimited data transfer packages available as well. Users can buy these USB modems and subscribe to the service from March 17.
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