I am going to tell you my experience of worst Internet Service Provider on this planet. The people who take bad service to a whole new level!!! Tata Indicom Broadband.

After moving to Bangalore in October, 2006 from New Delhi, I applied for a broadband connection from Tata Indicom (big mistake).

After applying, I was told that the connection will be provided to me within a week, but I got the broadband connection after 4 of those “so called” one week.

Even after paying the advance rental for 4 months to avoid paying the installation charges, I was charged the installation charges. Took some shouting and abusing from me for them to return the installation charges, which took around 2 months to get processed.

Now the real horror started, which I can term as a big pain in ass and waste of time. The connection used to be down most of the time of the month and the major chunk of my mobile phone bill was going on calls complaining and abusing people at the customer service of tata indicom broadband.

This did not happen on one occasion but numerous occasions throughout my broadband service term with tata indicom. I have even forgot counts of the problems which I had.

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Yesterday I happened to visit my friends place and found out that he had downloaded a very new movie. I asked my friend to give me the movie. I took his memory key or the thumb drive and then copied the movie on to it and went back home.

When I reached home, I put it in my PC and went into My Computer. When I double clicked the memory key/thumb drive icon, nothing happened and it did not open. Just at that moment, I had a hunch that I had activated a virus or worm from the memory key. Obviously at that particular moment, I was un-ware of the the problem. I scanned the thumb drive from Mcafee Antivirus but it was unable to detect any threat on the thumb drive.

At that moment, I just went ahead and watched the movie. By the way, it was really a good movie, loved it.

After few minutes, I thought of going online to check email and my orkut account. I usually use Mozilla browser as the primary browser on my PC.

The moment I double clicked Mozilla… a message popped open…

I DONT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE… with the title of the dialogue box as USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE.

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