BSNL Broadband's new revolutionary (lol) broadband plans with minimum 2mbps speeds (lol)

I think currently people are happy with true UL 512 Kbps but surely they're going to get pissed off big time when 2 Mbps upto 1 GB will be put into place. A few suicides are on the cards :russianroulette:
 
chromaniac said:
read a bit about how global internet works. most of the content we end up accessing (including this website) is hosted outside india. so you have to fetch data through international pipelines. there are a lot of complicated factors here which i tend to avoid reading into like internet exchanges (nixi is supposed to be an evil entity). it is very unlikely that we would ever get fup free high speed internet. i pay 1250 for 3.5mbps unlimited on reliance and it seems like a miracle to me considering the amount of data i end up consuming every month on it. bandwidth costs money. international bandwidth probably costs a bit more. things could get better if we had more data centers in india hosting content we access and international traffic would not be involved and government could fix the issues with nixi and other related bodies... but things are not looking good.

in the end, the only thing that can improve things in india is competition. i have no idea if you have heard about act broadband. it provide services in three cities right now i believe and in all the three cities both airtel and bsnl have been forced to offer better plans (compared to rest of the country) simply because consumers have a better option to move on to.

a lot of us are hoping that reliance 4g lte would do that on a larger scale. force airtel and bsnl to offer better plans. airtel has already started changing packages to focus on data instead of speeds. killer pricing by mukesh ambani could change things overnight when jio launches later this year (hopefully).
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I get what you are saying.A few years back when EA tried to host their gaming servers in INDIA but government as usual asked ridiculous amount of money.

How will we get any data centres if government itself isn't doing anything about it.

Why did after 10 years and i repeat 10 years we are still stuck at 512 Kbps.

Even Pakistan will get better bandwidth in two years(probably still has).
 
General Al Capo said:
Why did after 10 years and i repeat 10 years we are still stuck at 512 Kbps.
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Only last year has TRAI raised minimum broadband speed from 256 kbps to 512 kbps. And in 2007 TRAI had set minimum broadband speed at 256 Kbps. We probably had 128 kbps as minimum broadband speed before 2007.

So we're not stuck at 512 Kbps since 10 years. 512 kbps is a luxury we just got last year.

Many people don't remember that TRAI wanted to set 2 Mbps as minimum speed since 2009. They recommended a road map by which 2 Mbps had to be made minimum broadband speed by Jan 2015. But all they could do was raising the minimum broadband speed to 512 kbps in 2014.
 
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