The price of Broadband in India is very high compared to Europe or other parts of Asia, with a 1 Mbit/s connection costing between US$20
[44] and $30 per month
why is this so ?aren there the same international connectivity issues ?
That's pretty much it, yes. India is geographically isolated, and has neighbours it doesn't really like (and as such, doesn't have cables going across borders). Unlike Europe, where aside from much of the bandwidth being intra-continental, peering is cheap as chips: I'm talking 1,200 euros a month per 10gbit/s interconnect or even less. Compare this to NIXI where it's 3 lakhs per year for 1gbit/s plus usage charges.
Also what is the price of bandwidth at international level , not TO INDIA price , in general what is the price of say 1mbps/month ?
It's calculated per kilometer (point to point) and depends 1. on the route/cable system 2. on the amount of bandwidth being purchased and 3. the contract term (or IRU term). Purchasing 100mbit/s for 12 months won't get you any discounts but purchasing 10 or 100gbit/s for 5 or 10 years will.
Price is okay as of now in India, I mean pretty much okay with my isp 2mbps ul for 1000bucks If you compared to Countries like UAE its 3,500 per month for the same thing..
Don't even get me started with the UAE. It's a horrible horrible comparison for Internet/Phone services, and even more restricted - partially since they only have the 2 government operators - no private players at all. But also, the purchasing power is much greater there too: the Dirham is strong and it's favourable exchange rate against the INR makes it seem expensive.
I think mgcarley has clearly discussed this already, due to LLU and due to the price of the equipments being low.
1mbps in France is around 100 Bucks If i am not wrong, although i dint find 1 or 2mbps in their dictionary!
Well, more accurately it's less than US$1 per mbit/s, but you can't actually get just a 1mbit/s connection. These days, what they consider to be basic service is something like 50mbit/s delivered over fibre, with
TV and VOIP phone bundled for 30 euros a month (in most cities, like Paris, Nice, Bordeaux, Lyon etc that is). The same can be had for the same price on
ADSL or VDSL if FTTB/H is not available. So actually compared to that, I'd say that 2mbit/s unlimited for Rs1k is not really very good value at all!
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Don't worry India is on a data center rocket. A lot of new datacenters are coming up which will greatly reduce the need of intl. BW in India.:angel_not:
though at present biggie's pay very less fr that, it is more of an
business issue. biggie's are bleeding heavily due to competition in telco sector and hardly have an interest in lowering margins in BB or more importantly spending money on infra upgradation:sleeping:. They are leaving that for the govt. as of now or if that fails they will share newly built networks by third parties for lowering last mile costs just like mobile backhaul sector.:biggrin:
Actually, I'd say it's mobile competition that's bleeding them. Broadband... not so much. If the broadband sector were as competitive as the mobile sector, you'd all have much better service!
as of now).