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O, Calcutta!

We might not immediately think of Calcutta as a lucrative market for telecommunications, but the author of this piece for Voice & Data thinks otherwise. Far from being the "dead city" it was declared by Rajiv Gandhi, the once-squalid former British trading post is now "fighting to find its position on the technology map of India." Phone service has improved dramatically with increased demand in recent years, while the number of Internet subscribers in the city has grown five times over in just two years. Are there companies eager to overcome old stereotypes and leap into this market breach? You bet! Read on and see.

Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:42:35 -0800