RailWire Broadband Tariffs
The Good:-
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Their un-limited pricing plans sound reasonably priced ( by Indian standards).
Plan No. Port Speed* Plan Rental** (In Rupee)
iRW002 256 Kbps 320
iRW004 512 Kbps 620
iRW006 1 Mbps 920
iRW008 2 Mbps 1220
iRW010 4 Mbps 2120
iRW012 8 Mbps 3620
iRW014 16 Mbps 6920
iRW016 32 Mbps 13520

*Port speeds are on 1:4 contention ratio
**Plan Rentals are exclusive of applicable taxes and levies
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Anyone knows what is the experience like ?

Its available in a very small part of Bangalore though
Area where RailWire is available
The bad:-
1. You can only use it on a single PC and authentication is bound to the MAC address.
2. Its available in a very small area.

Atleast one major free hosted e-mail provider(read Gmail) which now provides POP downloads from a specific date and the option to move your e-mail into the big e-mail folder for "All e-mail" cares about allowing e-mail consolidation at a hosted location. It is really nice to see the e-mails sent through SMTP ending up in "Sent Items" in Gmail.

How difficult is it for their competitors to provide an outbound e-mail archiving. Since most of the people who use POP/IMAP also tend to use same ISP's SMTP for sending out e-mail.

On an un-related note a lot of clueless/mean ISPs actually block outbound port 25 as a part of their offerings so maybe all hosted providers should make it a point to accept e-mail at atleast one higher port other than port 25.

What incurs more energy expenditure? "Transferring" moving image (video) or physically moving to a place.
This means environmentalists would do well to advocate laying more fiber than getting expensive Mass Rapid Transport systems for cities.
Ideally if people can stay at home in their villages/small towns and find work at virtual workplaces rather than moving to polluted megapolises or "foreign" nations with annoying visa regulations and corresponding taxation annoyances.
In our country(India), big clueless ISPs worry about collecting rent for international bandwidth (as mere resellers) rather than helping make domestic bandwidth more uselful and inexpensive. The government monopolizes generation and distribution of electicity, preventing environment friendly local generation and distribution. The growth of ISPs is hampered by old world telecoms and bureaucrats at clueless organizations like TRAI.
Are we not wasting money trying to buy up large oil companies instead of making our nation ape the wasteful west. We don't need more cars,buses, trains and aeroplanes, we need more fiber(and wireless) networks and a governmental system that provides all the facilities without the need to move away from the computer monitor.
I do not envisage elimination of all forms of travel, but the most frequent and most wasteful of them all "the daily commute"