India broadband

  The government of India is proposing to provide free 2mbps broadband to the entire nation by year 2009 and this is likely to be provided jointly by BSNL and MTNL broadband as MTNL broadband coves Newdelhi and Mumbai and BSNL broadband covers the rest of the nation.Government is proposing to connect the entire population with fiber optic cables and is going to allow resale of bandwidth in the near future.

This has cheered up the entire nation but the telecom operators and isp’s are biting thier nails in dispair.Telecom industry will see a huge decline in my opinion as I dont see any one using telephones when voip is the new C word.I would imagine even mobile operators would get burnt with advent of wifi phones which are already in use abroad.

Cant wait for free broadband:)Â Please feel free to leave your comments.

 VSNL has announced that they will be offering roaming facility to thier customers and they will now be able to use hotspots at twenty five countries without having to buy any credits abroad.India now has only about 1000 hot spots and wifi deployment is in its infant stage but things are picking up.vsnl is now a member of Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) which is a global consortium of  leading wireless internet service operators  of the world.VSNL wifi customers will now be able to stay online at hotspots at US, UK and Italy among number of other countries.

VSNL’s broadband will now be a seperate company as they are planning to seperate thier other communication business from broadband and make it a seperate entity.

         I have been a fan of wimax technology ever since I found out about it about a year ago and have always been looking farward to get a wimax connection.I have been in India for the last six months and the only reason I some times miss UK is the 10mbps cable internet connection I have there, Now that I have hopes of soon getting a wimax connection here in Newdelhi which hopefully will be more then atleast 2mbps or may be upto 75mbps as some companies plan.

Bsnl has been running wimax trials across the country at ten different locations which they say have been very succesful and plan to roll out commercial wimax connections some time later this year with prices at par with thier adsl offerings.

For NewDelhi wimax would be an ideal solution as 80% of Delhi is so unorganised that no other mode of internet connectivity can beat the ease of wimax which doesnt need any wires.The population density also makes it more lucrative for wimax deployment as very few towers will be able to cover the whole of Delhi and the cost of infrastructure per connection will go down considerably which will hopefully be passed on to the consumer.

In the next article I will write about details of wimax technology and how it works including details about the equipment used to deliver and recieve data.

I am eagerly waiting for wimax, are you?  If you have any comments please feel free to share with all of us.