India Broadband

parshanth

Free Browsing @ Night Become a reality......................in the days to come iam waiting....................

Rameshjeee

Will sure be a reality......may be in next 2~3 years to come....

Admin

I am sure in a couple of years time we will have 8mbps and faster connections with unlimited usage at very affordable prices

The situation you see here in India is exactly how broadband took off everywhere in the world minus the bad service and downtime we have here...

In th begining say 2000-2001 in UK a 512kbps unlimited connection used to coz 50 pounds a month which is about Rs4500 and now you get a 24mbps unlimited connection there for less then Rs1500

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just4kix

Absolutely. In 2003-04, I was in UK (Woking, Surrey) and I had 512 kbps unlimited connection from BT Broadband and I used to pay £24.99 per month (~ Rs. 2000). Now the speeds have jumped to 6 mbps and above.

Comcast, the leading cable broadband provider in USA, provides the following plans (all unlimited usage):

a) 6 mbps for $19.99 pm + tax for first six months, $32.99 pm + tax later
b) 12 mbps for $42.99 pm +tax
c) 16 mbps for $52.99 pm + tax

BSNL was giving 256 kbps for Rs. 900 + tax pm till 31-Mar-2008. The same plan is now costing Rs. 750 + tax pm.

My guess is that we should see another price cut next year or bandwidth increase. Right now there is a lot of infrstructure and leasing cost. Once the cost is recovered we should see the usage limits lifted and higher speeds available. Give another 3 years.

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Admin

It would be great if the government of India gave all ISP's a tax break of 5 years. Our government needs to understand that this internet is no luxary ... its a need and everyone should have access to it like land line phone, mobile phones and television.

For those who dont know ... UK has more internet connections then India If you take into consideration the total populations of these two countries... its a massive gap in internet penetration.

relton

Well, it better be sooner. , The connections, is what I meant about!

nakasht2

I really doubt so. Cause according to a recent survey, the number of broadband connections in India, as of now is only 1.3 connections/100 people. And according to the analyst's prediction, with this rate, there maybe only 3.24 connections/100 people in 2012.
But I really hope so that we get 8 Mbps connection as soon as possible. I was shocked to hear that people abroad are getting such high speeds and I used to think 512 kbps was as fast of lightning

whitestar_999

in sweden people in some places have 2gbps home connections(that's right!gbps not even mbps).in japan & korea 100mbps connections are now available at various places for home users.

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boneless

yes and when the whole world moves from gbps to tbps....we will advance from kbps to mbps....and when and if a time comes (some 50yrs) here we move to gbps probably the world moves to some new technology and we still keep whining about our gbps connection.....give it up guys our country no matter how much it progresses will still lag behind other countries and we never stop comparing our isp's with other ips's of the world.....a never ending story

just4kix

Absolutely incorrect. We leapfrogged in mobile phones. The mobile market in India is growing much more rapidly that any place in the world. The same can happen with Broadband also.

The problem is PC penetration. Any person can use a phone but not everyone is computer savvy. It is a demand and supply situation. When demand increases, supply also increases (in an open economy). New players jump into the void that exists. When there is a lot of users the overall cost comes down and that plus competition drives the prices southward.

I do not understand why you choose to take a defeatist and negative outlook of the country. Things change but change does not happen overnight.