Sunil Tagare's Personal Views on the Telecom Industry

Industry watch on the telecom industry focusing on submarine cables, peering, bandwidth, data centers and technology

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Freedom Cable 2X Cheaper Than The Reliance Jio BBG Deal

  Let us make some liberal assumptions here.  Let’s assume Reliance Jio got the BBG deal for net free.  Let’s assume Reliance Jio put in $35 million in BBG for which it got 6.5 Tbps of end-to-end capacity (Dubai toaaa

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BBG Cable: There is More to The Deal Than Meets the Eye

  Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it is impossible for me to believe that there is no side-deal between Reliance Jio and Vodafone.  Show me one deal that Reliance has done since its inception where it has invested inaaa

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The Roaming Mafia

  I guess I am a really good Procurement guy because I absolutely cannot tolerate the common man being taken for a ride and whenever possible, I try to do something about it — no matter how difficult the problem.aaa

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My Advice to Google: Open Your Global Network to All Content Providers

  You got to read this very interesting article in Forbes mirroring some of the things I have been saying for years on my blog.  The crux of the article is that the current Internet infrastructure is the equivalent of everyaaa

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Great News for Submarine Cable Developers

  The biggest news coming out of Suboptic is that Xtera has built a new optical repeater for submarine cables.  So why is this such a big news?  Because there is lack of true competition in the submarine cable vendoraaa

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Let’s Meet at ITW

  At ITW, I will be 100% focused on trying to get carriers signed up for the Freedom Cable as well as Cable Barato.  So any carrier who wants a face-to-face, please contact me asap as the time slots areaaa

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The Big Hunt in India Just Ended

  So what was the most common thing between the Freedom Cable, Sea-Me-We-5, BBG and AAE-1?  All of us were pursuing the biggest catch of all times — Reliance Jio, the nationwide 4G provider in India.  Just like I paidaaa

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If You Pay More Than $1/Mbps, Call Me

  I have figured out how to get you Internet bandwidth really cheap — at or less than $1/Mbps which includes transport as well as IP Transit.  So if you are paying more than $1/Mbps including both at the wholesaleaaa

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Announcing Cable Barato

        Which is one of the most neglected regions of the world from the perspective of submarine cables?  Most people think it is Africa.  But with the recent wave of projects in Africa, it is now quiteaaa

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I Rest My Case

    Credit: Peter Savodnik, BloombergBusinessweek — April 11, 2013   Click here to see the source   Looking to buy EIG capacity urgently — 10Gbps          

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