Shortly after writing a detailed response to why the article http://telecomtalk.info/do-we-really-need-fiber-to-the-home-ftth-in-indi... is wrong, the author of this post has begun some "investigative journalism" and published an article to try and expose Hayai as being a fraudulent company and myself as being a fake http://telecomtalk.info/authenticity-of-hayai-broadband/65462/

Now, since my posts to TelecomTalk get moderated and rarely published (because apparently calling someone a fake and not allowing them the dignity of a response is what constitutes fair and even reporting), I've published my comment to the latest article in full here:

@Anurag – Are you annoyed because I so frequently go after the false information you post in your articles that you now have to accuse me of being fake?
1. Testing was done briefly in order to prove the concept. There was something like 9 months between the time of testing and the time where I wrote that no-one is testing Hayai, in other words, the closed “beta” was finished already. Legally we could not let people continue using the service.
2. We disclosed our relationship with HNS at the time. In the 18 months since that time, situations have changed. For the record, the loss on a fiber-optic network between the data center and the home.
3. Originally we were going to be doing a license-share with HNS but that is no longer happening and we have applied for our own – today I have met with the MHA for the security clearances and on the 7th will be some of the final sign-offs allowing us to operate.
4. I have a company in India whose MoA and AoA state that it’s purpose is to serve as an FTTH ISP. The fact that the service has not launched yet is not relevant.
5. Due to the way that APNIC delegates resources, we can not be given our own set of IP addresses until such time as we can prove the need for them. With no customers as yet, we are unable to fulfill this requirement. Our peering with Google is through our relationship with HNS, in other words, because Hayai and HNS will share traffic (in order to reduce the cost per megabit), the resources appear to be the same.
6. Our office is in Mahim, Mumbai. To lay fiber only requires an IP-1 license, not a full ISP license. All this is not subject to the aforementioned security clearances. You can see the same on the DoT website.
7. There was a CPE problem – failure to deliver. Now we are purchasing from Alcatel who I have just met today. Sushubh from IBF even picked me up from their office.
8. Unfortunately if I name the investors, I could get sued (breach of contract), and obviously as they have more money than I do, I would be in rather a lot of trouble. And actually, it’s remarkably easy to find investors with 100+ crore.
9. Airtel etc are not interested in the consumer market. It costs a lot to support. They are interested in the Enterprise. Considering that they end up getting paid whether they have the retail customers or whether we do, why wouldn’t they take some money from us for doing, essentially, no work?
10. The business case for building a last-mile network is mine to justify.
11. I do not know why BSNL has not done such a thing, but we are not the only ones to have such facilities on our network. Many cable ISPs around the country offer the same facility, albeit not as fast.
12. I’ve never said that BSNL pays more than I do. I definitely pay more than they do – last I checked they had a tender of about Rs900/mbit which works out to about Rs3/GB. This is less than we pay.
13. As for Hayai being “not a real company”, I think my directors and staff would beg to differ. In fact, most of them will be at a company meeting on Saturday, I’ll be happy to prove everyone’s existence. As for launching our services, assuming that the paperwork has in fact gone as smoothly as I had hoped, it’s entirely likely that you’ll see us in Mumbai and Pune by about Diwali.
While I appreciate the skepticism and whether you believe we will launch or not that you must please be patient with this. Even Mukesh won’t be launching his LTE service before January. Granted, that’s a shorter time from inception to launch than us, but he also started with a few billion dollars more than I did.
If you continue to have any doubts that I am anything less than genuine, I can make myself available tomorrow (6th May) in Delhi/Noida or on Saturday evening for a few hours in Mumbai (preferably Bandra or nearby).

To make things worse, he's gone ahead and reopened an old thread on geekzone.co.nz which now has NZ'ers thinking I'm a phoney.

Oh, and did I mention that he insinuated that I (or someone from Hayai) attacked/hacked telecomtalk.info on Twitter?

Bad move.

Unfortunately I have some bad news for you, Anurag, apart from the glaring inaccuracies in his "articles" (not just about Hayai, but about many things to do with Broadband in general):

Hayai does exist in both countries
Hayai is building a network in both countries
Hayai is launching
and as much as I hate this fact, Hayai does have lawyers (which we'd rather not use if we can avoid it, but if we do, we would probably go after the sponsors of TelecomTalk.info as well).

Interestingly, this is at the bottom of the article in question:

Disclaimer:

This post is not meant for any personal attack towards MG Carley or to Hayai Broadband,In Nov last year we also did an interview of MG thinking that the tall claims he made are possible in India but after some analysis and research we have came across a conclusion that his claims seems fake.

We approached Mathew couple of times via e-mail and we dint got any satisfactory answer from him regarding license .We are also not against FTTH service in India we would be more than happy if any operator comes with FTTH affordable rate ..

We would be more than happy if Mathew proves our analysis wrong not by comments by launching its service to end users.

I think the tone of the article suggests very much otherwise.

As for approaching me via email, here are those emails:

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Hello,

Please find my replies inline.

Mathew

On 4/05/2011 14:41, Tarun wrote:
> Hello Mathew Sir,
>
> Sir i hope u r enjoying a gr8 trip in India just have some few doubts u have any plan to visit Chennai or Cochin ?
>
I was in Chennai in mid-April. I'm not sure when I will return.
> Sir one more thing in http://www.mathew-carley.com/cms/content/hayai-fraudscam-thing i have a small doubt in ur recent blog post in which u have mentioned regarding license operating in both countries so can u throw some lights over Indian license ,
I can tell you all about the license, but I don't get what specifically you want to know.
>
> It will be gr8 if u share any legal doc frm any GOVT of India Body like DOT or TRAI which shows u have been allocated license service to operate in India ..
>
There are many restrictions wrt foreigners operating in the Telecom sector - subject to security vetting and all of this, and since Hayai is my "baby", they're looking at me extra carefully in order to make sure I can perform the necessary tasks involved in such a venture and ensure that we will not be a national security threat. All of this is being addressed with a visit to the MHA which is happening in a matter of hours. When I have a result I can let everybody know simultaneously.
> sir one more thing what is the current status of launch of Hayai in India ..
>
We're waiting on all of this paperwork to be completely fixed. Assuming all of that is completed smoothly, it's likely that we can launch some time around Diwali.
> Hope 2 c u soon ..
>
>
> Regards,
> Tarun.P.K
> Founder & Chief Editor | TelecomTalk.info
> 999-411-2939 | [email protected] |
> Gmail: telecomtalk.info | Twitter: @telecomtalk
>
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Please find replies inline

MC

On 5/05/2011 10:02, Rudradeep Biswas wrote:
> Dear Mathew,
>
> Recently I got some mails saying Hayai does not have ISP license in India.
>
> I like to say to you to publish the company name under which you got the ISP license or you can show the scanned document of the license in public.
>
Once all of the paperwork is 100% sorted and we're allowed to operate, sure.
> We also like to know Hayai's investers' name, provided no privacy is hampered.
>
Unfortunately most of that information can not be disclosed for contractual reasons.
> As I followed IBF threads, Hayai is coming to Mumbai, Pune and Delhi at first stage. When we can expect Hayai rolled out in Kolkata? Any guess?
>
Correct. As for Kolkata, we don't know yet.
> I know you are today in Ministry of Home Affairs office, I am waiting to know something positive from you regarding Hayai launch!
>
This visit pertains to our licensing as well and once a response is received and I know what's happening I can share the necessary information.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Rudradeep Biswas
> Telecomtalk.info
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> Twitter @rudrodyp
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So what responses did you want? Most of the answers were "I don't know yet"!!!

Then I noticed this.

Note:- Please Note we are not going to approve anymore misleading comments from Mathew.We will entertain only some solid proof like license from DOT or launch of Hayai broadband for “Real” end users.

Really? What misleading comments? Your article is misleading, however it still got published. Your previous article on FTTH was misleading and that got published. I've offered to prove things as and when they happen, and you call this misleading?

FUCK YOU. You're a sniveling little **** who can't take it when someone corrects you on the facts, with the erasure of comments making said corrections and all. I'm sure you'll get a great job on FOX news or something with your kind of bias. I bet you wouldn't even have the cojones meet me in person if I came to your city.

Now. I can do 2 things. I could seek an injunction against TelecomTalk.info (in the bad/evil corporate style) for use of my name, slander/libel, use of Hayai's logo etc.

Or I could ignore Anurag and his bullshit as he misinforms his poor readers with bad grammar, semantics and syntax... and bad information - most of which I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt (not just from this article, but from others, too).

What to do, what to do...

And while I'm at it, management reserves the right to refuse services to certain people.