Broadband going to get better (???)

[blackpearl]

Come January, Indian consumers will be treated to very high speeds of internet downloads with unlimited broadband being made available to them, promises the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr Dayanidhi Maran. "Goodbye 256 kb," he said on Monday, on the sidelines of a meeting here.

The public sector telecom companies, BSNL and MTNL, are working towards "proactive pricing". He spoke of "unlimited broadband" to be made available, but when pressed for details he said, "that is all I am allowed to say at the moment."

The question is : How much can we trust him?

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...2805170400.htm

[Tech Geek]

It wud be just done to some of the impotant cities of india. I wudn't trust in that crap at all.

[AshishSharma]

^^^ I completely agree with you but still welcome the notion ....

At least they'r thinking abt it ... It seems they have some brains but donno how to use it ... lets hope something good comes out of this attempt towards real broadband

[ashu_dps]

I too agree, we have seen many such announcements in pasts bt hardly have any realised in their mentioned time-frame or even materialised!
We can jus keep our fingers crossed n hope for the best

[NucleusKore]

I think the private sector should do first and give them a run for they're money

[outlaw]

yeah rite ; when it comes to bandwidth the indian private sector sucks
they just keep the same tarrifs as bsnl even for lower bandwidth ,so i guess bsnl is gonna give the private sector a run for their money

[NucleusKore]

Well in my city Airtel Broadband was the first with 256 kpbs always on connections. BSNL only came later with their 900+ plan

[sabret00the]

As far as Calcutta is concerned there is unfortunately only one true broadband DSL service provider which is BSNL with their dataone service.I have been using the 256kbps/1GB connection for almost 2 years now.But I feel competition is the name of the game.As soon as private players come into the picture the story might change.But then again mobile broadband might just take sometime in India.Currently providers like Hutch claim that they provide EDGE but the speeds are as bad as dial up.Now that the Government has decided to open the spectrum for 3G things might change.....Also read this: Soon: Mobile Broadband Internet

[JGuru]

Hope we get 1 MB or 2 MB/sec unlimited plans in the future at an affordable price.

[sabret00the]

^^^ this aint US of A bro.......

[deepak.krishnan]

the Govt. has been making many offers. But I would like to see how far this is going to work

[Apollo]

Originally Posted by JGuru

Hope we get 1 MB or 2 MB/sec unlimited plans in the future at an affordable price.

I echo that. Maybe within the next couple of years...

[outlaw]

i wann a 1mbps UL for 250 rupees !!!! LOL

[goobimama]

Btw, the Goa government recently had a full page ad on how they are going to implement a 10 Gbps line (actually a couple of these lines) throughout Goa. This is going to be completed somewhere by december 2007 throughout Goa (including rural areas).

Right now I'm more than satisfied downloading on this 2Mbps line that we've got in the office (I'm working for the International Film Festival...). Gonna be hard to let go in another three days.

[AshishSharma]

10 GBPS .......... Big Joke ....

[ravi_9793]

I want atleast 1mbps (unlimited)at a cost of 1000/- buks per month.This can be thought.

[hard_rock]

I think 256kbps Unlimited Connection for Rs.500(If possible much lesser than that) is much better than 512Kbps with download limits..

[manas]

when maran said 256 kbps is the minimum speed for broadband, bsnl did that.Now lets see what maran does next..512kbps minimum speed???

[vasulic]

agree with outlaw

[soham]

I think the ideal thing would be to upgrade the 900 Unlimited plan to something around 1Mbps keeping the rate same. Also a 2 Mbps connection at something around 1500 to 1800 would be great.
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512 Kbps is the minimum speed for broadband in the UK. Dont know about US but true high speed broadband has to be nothing short of 2 Mbps.

[caleb]

If Maran actually delivers what he speaks than that would be a great welcome change to the current scenario...I agree with hard rock.

[gg_3000]

It seems that the definition of broadband is going 2 be modified.. Services of 512Kbps and above would be defined as a Broadband Service!!! Currently 256Kbps is min..

[goobimama]

that 10 Gbps line that I'm talking about is not 10gbps per home, but its gonna be split among households.

2Mbps to 100mbps lines per household (this is one 10gbps line)
1gbps for government offices (another 10gbps line and so on)

They seem pretty convincing...

[ax3]

LOL ......... dont trust these guys unless U have THE connection speed .........

[Ricky]

Well, I would like to present one important fact here which no one noticed and thought about.

In India we are having biggest limitation that on BSNL & other landlines that you can use only thier own aDSL on it but in other countries.. Landlines are open to anyone ie. if you live in UK and you hv service from BT (BT is name of a landline telephony provider there) then you can get Adsl from AOL, even from BT itself..
there are lots of other ADSL provider who can give service on same line. I donno much detail because I still need to know that how do they do ie. overcome few technical complications in this scenerio.

So they charge Customer for BB as well a negligible amount as rent to the original landline company.

If such setup can b implemented in India then I think will be easier for more company to get in as well as we will have lots of competition = best prices for customer.
In UK 8 unltd is available for Rs. 500 ie comparing to Indian economy (its not a price conversion)

Hope my point is clear.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

NOW Broadband will go like Mobile revolution in India. Soon it will one of the cheapeast and fastest on the Planet.

Jai HIND

[ilugd]

would be nice if we could have connector jacks at the local bus stands, so that we can just plug in our laptops and browse while waiting for the next bus. And 100 Mbps connections. I am drooling...

[wizrulz]

Originally Posted by ilugd

would be nice if we could have connector jacks at the local bus stands, so that we can just plug in our laptops and browse while waiting for the next bus. And 100 Mbps connections. I am drooling...

ANOTHER 5 years for that bus stand thing to happen...or may be 10

[Ricky]

ilugd!!
Thats very common ie. if you have heard about WiFi hotspots !

@SukhdeepsinghKohli.
Did you read my post carefully ? I am saying that if that can happen ie. Landline open to any ADSL provider then would be so but its not like that .. not even any sign of that .. hope you got my point. ie. there is no such revolution going to start if you are taking my point in concern.

[caleb]

Originally Posted by ilugd

would be nice if we could have connector jacks at the local bus stands, so that we can just plug in our laptops and browse while waiting for the next bus. And 100 Mbps connections. I am drooling...

I'd like that too but it's not feasible with the kind of destructive ppl in our country like the ones who destroyed trains & buses today in mumbai over a silly reason.