India broadband

Broadband availability is still an issue in UK as I am not able to get the best broadband connection available in UK when it is first launched and I have to wait untill it is launched in my area but there is a way to keep track on what all broadband providers are available in your area by using this broadband availability checker. The first ever broadband connection I had in UK was from BT and the speed used to be 256kbps for which they used to charge £29 per month and after using it for six months they doubled everyones speed and I got my first 512kbps connection. It was called BT Yahoo back then which had some goodies from Yahoo in the package and then after a year or so they came up with 2mbps connections and I must have been one of the first ones to get their 2mbps connection which used to make me feel as if I had the fastest connection around which was true to some extent as I am talking about 2003 when broadband was still a little new not just in UK but all around the world including the United states.

Cable broadband was something I had never tried so I switched to Blueyonder and got their 4mbps connection which was again a great deal faster then adsl and unlike adsl the connection never used to drop although speeds were not as much as I would like. In 2005 Blueyonder (Telewest) came up with 8mbps connection and it was priced at £55 a month which included my television and phone line as well but I never got speeds more then 4-5 mbps except for when I used to do broadband speed test which showed speeds of more then 7mbps which is not bad considering the fact that you dont ever get the promised speed as they write it as upto 8mbps. Telewest was later merged with NTL and I being a broadband speed freak I switched again and got a connection from Bethere which is a 24mbps connection and to be honest I have never experienced anything better, probbably because there isint any other company providing faster connections then 24mbps offered by Be there broadband and it is priced very reasonably.

Mobile broadband is catching up really fast in UK as evident from Google trends and almost every one I know has a data card and I use a t-mobile data card which has made my life so easy as I can stay connected while travelling in trains or sitting at a coffee shop somewhere in London It does make a lot of sense to get just a mobile broadband so you can use it at home and outdoors if you are not a very heavy downloader as I am as most of the mobile broadband service providers have capped bandwidth usage ranging from 1GB to 10GB a month and some hide under the umbrella of fare usage policy and other fine print.