Rumored Reliance Jio Fiber Broadband Plans

Back to broadband, would urge you to read more. As mentioned in one of the previous posts, the 95 mbps number is inflation due to high speeds in limited areas, and barely 5-10 mbps in most of the country (in the ISPs defense, US is a huge country, population density is low in many areas, and thus laying a fiber is not the cheapeast option). The ISPs lobby hard against getting competition in their area, heck even Google Fiber had to withdraw from some areas due to political and lobbying pressure. Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are some of the most hated companies in the US. And here I quite like Airtel, and to some extent, even Jio. Local ISPs in my area are also pretty good, with low downtimes.

Yeah we shouldn't be comparing to the US as it is not very advanced in broadband area. We should compare more to eastern/asian countries like South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong etc who are the real front-runners in speeds and pricing.
 
I'm sure 1 gbps is very relevant and useful for people with certain usage.

Like for example I hear video games these days are like 50 gb packs and what not. Plus cloud online storage if someone is a photography/video afficionado and has lots of pics/videos to upload/download to cloud storage.

Earlier with ADSL broadband you wait hours for your data transfer to complete now with 100 mbps it is a few minutes. With 1 gbps it will further drop down to few seconds waiting time. Imagine the productivity boost for busy people.

Even though I am very satisfied with 100 mbps speeds, I would also take up a 1 gbps plan if it is affordable and maybe even a little bit higher priced for my budget for the low waiting times to upload/download things like windows/linux ISOs and what not.

Oh damn ! I forgot my photography uploads. They sync both with iCloud and Google Photos, and does take a good part of the space.

I disagree. I am one of those people for whom speed is more important than FUP :D

Same here man. Stoked that we are hitting near platter based HDD speeds.
 
/rant starts

So I did not want to go this route, but since you brought other metrics in the system, I would say US is one of the shittiest places to live. Gun ownership laws are fucked, you can be killed in a cafe, in a school, in a movie theater and a host of other places even when you have no grudge with anybody (unlike India when most of these shootings happen due to politics, land, money, and are rarely mass shootings etc.).
Add to that the insane abortion laws (I'm in the medical profession, so I've an insight into this) where a would-be mother cannot even chose whether she wants to have a baby or not (even after rape in many states, yes sire !), and you have a country whose currency is the only thing going for it. They have a heavy military presence everywhere, and arm twist most of the other countries into agreeing with them. The day USD losses it's shine, the country will resemble a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

/rant end

Back to broadband, would urge you to read more. As mentioned in one of the previous posts, the 95 mbps number is inflation due to high speeds in limited areas, and barely 5-10 mbps in most of the country (in the ISPs defense, US is a huge country, population density is low in many areas, and thus laying a fiber is not the cheapeast option). The ISPs lobby hard against getting competition in their area, heck even Google Fiber had to withdraw from some areas due to political and lobbying pressure. Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are some of the most hated companies in the US. And here I quite like Airtel, and to some extent, even Jio. Local ISPs in my area are also pretty good, with low downtimes.
Safety in the US, their foreign policy etc are irrelevant to this discussion. Only an ignorant or totally biased person would argue that the US is not richer and technologically more advanced. There is nothing wrong in wanting to get ahead of the the US in certain areas but to not even objectively compare and understand the situation won't do any good.
 
People are having unrealistic expectations with Jio here. I would be highly surprised if 1 Gbps plans are priced anywhere below 4 to 5k per month. 1 Gbps users are niche customers, not mass customers.

ACT Giga gives 3TB FUP @ Rs 3000 per month, but we have to consider here the fact that ACT has limited availability whereas Jio Fiber has pan-India plans. Also, the fact that Jio has no competitor in this segment. Jio face competition in 50/100 Mbps bracket from local ISPs, not 1 Gbps.

So my guess is 1 Gbps would be starting at 5k per month.
 
monthly an effective rate of 885/- but you have to pay something Rs 21,000 upfront. Fuck that shit

Again, spectra is limited to a few areas of NCR, really not a concern for Jio.
 
There thing is majority of the market is still happy with basic plans from MTNL BSNL and Airtel. So Jios main market is the market using these niche services. Of course TriplePlay if available at launch gives them some advantage especially with landline portability. Lots of people are just not interested in switching because they don't want to lose their decades old number.
 
Airtel offers landline portability but few people knows this. I only found out through a post on this forum.
 
I am expecting no FUP plans from JIO. Otherwise there won't be any differentiation between them and other ISP's.
Ideally the plans should be like
699 for 100 mbps
899 for 200 mbps
1099 for 300 mbps and so on..

Or if they also want to play the FUP game
699 for 100 mbps - 500gb
899 for 200 mbps - 800 gb
1099 for 300 mbps - 1TB
And so on..
 
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