After having a completely free rein of internet in Delaware, I am back in Mumbai now, and back to reality. Thud. The Mumbai office is heavily websensed-the websensed categories include the company name, what more can I say.
Anyways, so that means no IMs, no sites that fall under Finance, Travelling, Shopping, Entertainment, Social Networking, yadda yadda. Even checking emails is a pain, cos every other page takes you back to the 'blocked' message.
I shifted home a year back, and getting broadband was always on the to-do list. I had been pretty casual about it so far, as the places I worked with so far never really had a 'policy' regarding internet usage. And ofcourse, as a usability engineer/web developer, the internet was my playground.
All that changed when I got back to office this month, and therein began my hunt for an ISP who would give me broadband. The ISP of choice, Hathway, refused connection to my building-cable guy monopoly! MTNL, has this rule, where your application gets cancelled automatically if you are not available when the friendly-phone-guy drops in. So the form I had filled last october had been anulled even before I knew, and it took me a year and a half, inspite of living in the financial capital of the happening IT place that is India, to get a broadband connection.
Anyways, hopefully, the wait has ended. The connection is pretty fast, and all that I need to know now-is how much it will cost me EOM. Will keep you posted. Till then, happy surfing!
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