@kanishka will you please shut your trap?
if things go how you say, then we'll be getting 2 mbps unlimited only in the year 2015 or 2020. good thing you're not the telecoms minister or we would still be in the jurassic ages using 32 or 64kbps for 1000Rs a month.
think more practically. we are in 2009 like the rest of the world and not in 2000 or 2002. if the ISP's decide to give broadband speeds to us like in the US or European countries, they can, if they had thought like you we would'nt have 8mbps or even 2mbps.
our ISP's are just looting us and feeding us shit.
you better wear clothes made from leaves and go back and start living in the caves kanishka.
:rofl:
i agree :urock:
I am well aware of what ISPs in the UK and Europe offer - I have recently moved to India from Finland (and before that France).
As nice as such a scenario would be, there are several things preventing this for the immediate future:
1. Most content accessed in India is on US-based servers. As such, this places stress on our international links - which are not cheap. At a 1:50 contention ratio, just to cover the cost of a 155Mbps pipe (just short of USD33000/month), we would need to charge at least USD34/Rs1,700, and even then, in effect, this means 7750 users would be sharing a 155Mbps line.
If you wanted that at 1:30 (4650 users) or 1:8 (1240 users), you'd be looking at USD56/Rs2,800 and USD210/Rs10,500 respectively - and thats assuming no-one wanted to make any profit or pay salaries to workers, and doesn't count other things like license fees to the TRAI or infrastructure.
2. There is not much hosting done in India itself. Unlike the US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Japan and Korea where there are significant amounts of locally hosted data and large data centers.
3. Even with locally hosted data, there is the issue of a little organization called NIXI, who currently have a formula whereby ISPs are charged at Rs 50 per gigabyte incoming (although outgoing subtracts Rs 50 per gigabyte from the bill, so effectively the end price is still about Rs 35 per gigabyte).
If I had as few as 1,000 customers downloading say only 80GB of traffic per month each through NIXI, I would have to pay 80000*50 or 40 lakhs per month, minus say 20GB of upload traffic (so minus 10 lakhs), I still have to pay 30 lakhs. 30 lakhs NOT including the 16.5 lakhs per month for a separate 155Mbps line equals 46.5 lakhs per month - so for 1000 customers, thats Rs 4,650 by itself.
Bad
business, especially considering an 8Mbps connection has the potential to allow 2,000GB every month, and some people MIGHT abuse this.
4. In Europe, there are several other benefits available, mostly that the European equivalients of NIXI are far less expensive, as last time I checked, they don't get charged by the GB, and secondly buying international connectivity is cheaper due to distance. With the international cables here, you pay by the kilometer, so a link from Mumbai to Singapore works out at about USD400k per year.
Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany or UK, however, is significantly less than half the distance of a BOM-SIN route, therefore far less expensive to lease. All have very large data centers and internet exchanges, especially Amsterdam and London as well, which really helps.
My ISP will be offering an 8Mbps plan for an as-yet-unfinalized price, but it will be more than Rs2,500 - although we plan to allow 80GB of international downloads (and unlimited in-network), which we think is reasonable (I am looking for opinions on this - PM me).
Additionally, NIXI have told me that the price is being reduced, but by how much and when they have not mentioned.
very informative. thanks
I have Home500 plan. I would like to see it changed to 10GB limit instead of a mere 1.5GB along with the 2-8am free usage.
Or if anyone brings a plan similar or better
dance
i would happily change. but it would be a waste if it had numerous disconnections like in BSNL.
https://www.speedtest.net
