I have a Sify connection, and would not reccomend it to anyone.

Please see this very nice article for an intersting take on Sify:

http://tehelka.com/channels/Columns/...p?e_name=Sonia
%20Faleiro&dat=12012004

I am reproducing a brief snippet of it below, follow link for full story:

’’King Con

In India a contract is never binding. Forget a verbal promise, even the written word, signatures, an advance payment, the word of law, the stamp of integrity mean zilch. Nada.
In the past year I have signed innumerable contracts, written substantial cheques, and thereafter waited long, dark, infuriating hours for the goods and services promised to me to make an appearance.

But time in India, rather like a contract, is deemed of little value. Hours spent in making phone calls?baffled, conciliatory, and threatening?prove futile. Once the money is in the hands of the service provider, it is although a mechanism in his brain (the one which controls the honour gene) shuts firmly, refusing to allow honesty, integrity and self-respect to have their way.

Yesterday, while lambasting a gentleman representing Sify Broadband...’’