Re:Whoa! Behind the times! (Score 1)

Looks like you were ill-informed. India atleast in the last 2 years is awashed with fibre optic cable, most of them are lit and serving the booming outsourcing, BPO and the local wireless carriers.
Almost all software companies are connected thru multiple paths (optic fibre, satellite links, leased line). Bangalore is connected on the fibre to almost all the major world wide optical links (FLAG, SAME, SEMEWE etc). The primary links are Bangalore to Chennai and Vizag then onto Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and ending up on US West coast, and through Cochin and Bombay with connections to Europe, Gulf and Africa and Eastern US.
Many local telecom providers have laid dedicated ocean cable connections: India to Singalore, Gulf Regions, Sri Lanka, Mauritius connecting to numerous world wide fibre routes which land in those respective locations.

Incidentally the biggest owner of undersea fibre cable in the world is an Indian Company! go figure..

The phone service has definitely improved tremendously, in particular the wireless service, almost all providers have excellent coverage and call quality is excellent and unlike in US the call drops are almost no-existant and to top it all they have a great CDMA service, which would put Sprint/Verizon to shame in terms of service quality.

-Cheers!