I've never been confronted to an indian phone conversation yet.

I hear more and more about those problems about not understanding them well. But I read in the newspaper that this should change soon. There's supposed to be classes in India to change accent of those working on the phone in India.

>I'll have to remind myself of his comments the next time I speak to a MSFT rep from India who can barely speak English. Thrice I have hung up on an individual after giving up attempting to communicate. Even yesterday a MSFT sales rep phoned and I could not understand her. It took 15 minutes to determine it was only a sales call! :o) Maybe that was MSFT's goal? :o)
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>>An american from the U.S.A. came to visit the other day.
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>>We talked about outsourcing to India. I told him why I thought that was'nt really good for the local economy affected.
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>>But his anwer was that outsourcing is good because it gets the stupid jobs to India while in the meantime guys from USA can do more intelligent things.
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>>So considering that outsourcing is just beginning and that we could expect the worst to come in that area, how do you feel about that affirmation? Are USA'ers really that bright?