25Mbps UNLIMITED FOR 1449Rs Looks Interesting

[mgcarley]

below link

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam P&L A/C | Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd Profit & Loss Account, Financial Statement

while what you say holds true on the loss, the biggest expense is employee salary cost

See revenue vs expenditure on infra & bandwidth. Doesn't add up too nicely.

 

[devx101]

But in Beam hell lot of customers are there on B-MAX 10Mbps,15Mbps and 20Mbps who download like hell. So how cum Beam survives with marginally good profit score?? Are they really on profits ??

because beam is a professionally managed company.... They know their business well.

 

[Sushubh]

heh. let them expand nationwide and get a customer base that is comparable to national ISPs and then we would talk.

 

[Siddhartha Dutta]

yeah the speeds prescribed then will not at all be profitable as per high end low end user base ratio and beam will probably go bankrupt if they have a customer base like Airtel or BSNL at national level with plans like B-MAX 10,15,20Mbps
heh. let them expand nationwide and get a customer base that is comparable to national ISPs and then we would talk.


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as per my total data transfer per month I'm eating up the revenues of 6users from my ISP but still he is in profit as the user base of low end users is very very high.

 

[gtman]

See revenue vs expenditure on infra & bandwidth. Doesn't add up too nicely.

any link on the same. I found the below and still does not add up

http://mtnl.in/uafr122011.pdf

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below is a comparison link and the same too does not give info on FUPs.. like its swept under the carpets!!

Compare all broadband internet providers in India

 

[Jaymin]

^^^^See the segmental break-up of losses. Theres a segment "Basic Services" & another one "Cellular services". Now i think Basic services includes the fixed landlines & Internet connection on those lines. The losses in that segment is the highest. Infact it outnumbers the losses on Cellular business!

 

[gtman]

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See the segmental break-up of losses. Theres a segment "Basic Services" & another one "Cellular services". Now i think Basic services includes the fixed landlines & Internet connection on those lines. The losses in that segment is the highest. Infact it outnumbers the losses on Cellular business!

My friend, I have seen it (is part of the pdf file) that too includes the employee cost and that is the biggest component of the expenses - even segment wise.

 

[manu1991]

you do not go to a restaurant and order one curry dish if there are four people sitting on the table. you do not complain that one curry dish is not enough for four people. you order the amount of dishes that is enough for four people. and that is why you do not buy a 200GB plan if you are going to consume more than 200GB.
Buffet would have been a much more appropriate example. The only reason the restaurant offers you unlimited food in a buffet is that they expect you to eat a reasonable amount of food. If everyone started eating humongous quantities, they would have to stop it.

 

[Siddhartha Dutta]

Buffet would have been a much more appropriate example. The only reason the restaurant offers you unlimited food in a buffet is that they expect you to eat a reasonable amount of food. If everyone started eating humongous quantities, they would have to stop it.

does anyone have the stomach for that appetite??

 

[manu1991]

ok not eat. say waste a lot of food, take a lot and eat a little. You mentioned somewhere that on beam you could download hundreds of GB's of content. would you have the time/space to watch/store all that. in essence, a lot of it would be waste. can you seriously think of hundreds of GB's worth of stuff to download, each month, forever?