Current State of broadband in our country; Ruled by Evil Empires!

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Ask any telecom commentator in India about the success of the industry in the country and he will probably start extolling the reach of mobile telephony in India — 500 million active connections and 15-20 million new ones being added every month. Interrupt him to ask the number of Indian broadband Internet users and the voice often turns into a mumble — *7.5 million.

not only does India have among the slowest Internet speeds in Asia (other countries have speeds ranging from 1 Mbps-100 Mbps; the most common one in India is 512 Kbps), the prices paid by Indians for the same are the highest.

Traditionally people have controlled landing stations by forcing expensive cabling and interconnects onto buyers, stuff which isn’t technically expensive but made so commercially by operators

there is no shortage of submarine bandwidth in India, therefore addition of new capacity will not affect current prices all that much. This is born out from data compiled by TRAI, showing a total capacity of 18.6 Tbps across all existing submarine cables reaching India. A mere 0.5 percent of this capacity was used in 2008.


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Read report on state about state of Broadband,its speeds and highest prices worldwide. I am pissed at Govt/trai for not making any kind of rules regulating prices of bandwidth in India and these evil companies are looting us and also slowing down overall economic growth.
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Isn't there anything we could do other than silently watching? and occasionally ranting about it? :o
 
Complain about the companies is all we can do! And hope!
 
well the fact remains... Reliance and VSNL (Tata) are both giants with access to shit load of bandwidth. it is their fault that the bandwidth is not sold in the retail market at cheaper rates. and that is why it is still a luxury for most of us. both of these companies i believe supply bandwidths to international customers as well as indian... they are fully capable of driving the broadband revolution in india. but i guess they are still trying to milk it as much as possible before broadband too goes the way of mobile services here.
 
^^+1Recently i read in a regional newspaper that Tata and Reliance are among the World's Top 10 ISP's(w.r.t Bandwidth)!!!But look what we have here in practicality...Reliance Broadband hardly exists..I don't understand why they are saving the bandwidth.
 
they are not saving it. they are just focused on the corporate sector and of course international clients...

reliance owns FLAG and VSNL owns a similar large entity... both of these are huge in the international broadband market. :)

Tata Communications Limited, formerly known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited or VSNL, is India's largest telecommunication company in international long distance, enterprise data and internet services. Part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications is based in Mumbai and has operations in over 80 cities spread across 40 countries. Through its subsidiary Tyco Global Network, it is also one of the world's largest submarine cable bandwidth providers and has the world's largest network of submarine cables. Other subsidiaries of Tata Communications include VSNL International Canada, formerly known as Teleglobe while it is the majority share-holder of Neotel, South Africa's second national operator (SNO) for fixed line telecommunication services.


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Flag telecom started in 1990 as leading provider of international wholesale network transport and communication services with under sea cables of 50,000 Km. In 2001 Flag filled for a bankruptcy under chapter 11. In 2002 it emerged out of bankruptcy. In Jan 2004 Reliance Infocom acquired Flag Telecom for a valuation of US$ 211 Million for a control of 100% equity of the company. Flag at its peak in stock market had a valuation of US$ 7 million. Post marger Flag was renamed as Reliance Globalcom and manages the Global Telecom operations of India’s largest Integrated Telecom Service Provider.

FLAG Telecom, owned and operates the world's largest private undersea cable system, spanning 65,000 route kilometers and four continents. FLAG had an established customer base of more than 200 leading services providers, content providers, and channel partners. This extensive network serves as a Global Service Delivery Platform connecting 37 key business markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the U.S. through an overlay low-latency,global. MPLS-based IP network. FLAG offers a focused range of products, including Managed Bandwidth, IP VPN, IP Transit, Global Ethernet, and Co-location services. FLAG's Global Ethernet service is a fundamental enabler of its Global Service Delivery Platform, providing a next-generation, multi-service, wide area network (WAN) to transport voice, video, and data traffic reliably, conveniently, and economically to global destinations using Ethernet technology.

FLAG Acquisition
 
I feel it is the high time for TRAI to concentrate on broadband. Simply naming 2010 as the "Year of broadband" is not going to do any good for the industry or the consumer.When 3G services will start, we can get ~>3.6mbps(3.6 to 7.2mbps)..and we have similar or lower speeds on wired broadband(forget abt unlimited tariffs for a min)!!The equation should be like, if we can get say 5mbps on mobile, we should atleast have "access" to 50mbps on wired(pricing and data limit is a different story altogether).
 

well at least we have a deadline now. 3g by private operators should be available before the end of 2010. and 4G within the next 2-3 years. :D of course, still no promises.
 
The ITES business takes a large amount of bandwidth. And India being the back office of the world, I am sure most of the bandwidth of both TATA and Reliance goes to corporate sector. Even the government would likely prioritize corporate sector, as its far more important for the economy than household broadband connection. India would likely need far more bandwidth than any other country, because of all the BPOs and IT companies. Ordinary public are only going to get what remains of bandwidth after serving the corporate companies. IMO that's actually the correct policy
 
I am pissed at Govt/trai for not making any kind of rules regulating prices of bandwidth in India and these evil companies are looting us and also slowing down overall economic growth.
Be thankful they have not been regulated or there would have been ever lower availability of broadband than present. Regulating is evil.

Instead the govt should make it easier for more companies to compete. This is the only sustainable route to lower prices.

The reason bandwidth prices will come down, feels Bedi, is the entry of global telecom players like AT&T, Cable & Wireless and BT into the bandwidth resale market in India. But the very same companies were also reported to be complaining about high wholesale bandwidth prices to TRAI in December 2009, asking for some form of price regulation.

Here are future competitors asking for the landing operators to lower their prices to break the monopoly of sorts that they have. Yet this had to be tolerated to recoup their initial investments in the first place or we would still be on 56k dialup today.

Prices come down once those initial setup costs have been recouped..how long has it been now ?
 
Any idea when these companies would start broadband operations in India. Hoping atleast AT&T and BT could revolutionise the broadband market in India.
 

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