Have we reached a saturation point for broadband speeds in India?

[Kyle Crane]

all of this reminds me of "shinning cable" from the 2014 movie sonali cable
in the movie anupam kher is a big ISP and starts buying out every little ISP in Mumbai and where people once took connections from LCOs

Once the LCO is bought then the original owners are kicked out, and customers are given shitty services lol

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Kaiju404 btw reliance owns hathway broadband

 

[Rhishav]

Hathway, GTPL and Den as well @Kyle Crane

 

[Kyle Crane]

man idk how long will my local isp continue, they are dominating this place for last 20 years now and have a history to doing "daga giri" to airtel ,hathway or any operator trying to enter wherever they operate

 

[Rhishav]

And that will continue don't worry. These people also have local political backing.

 

[Kyle Crane]

yep yep and they somehow seem to be catching up all the time to whatever new shi jio and airtel are doing

granted they dont have online payment support and u always need to talk to someone on whatsapp for anything

 

[f0r3he4d]

if you wanna see real dadagiri look for gated community ISPs. I'm currently in Hyderabad in a gated community and they only have one ISP for the whole community. It's some Pioneer Elabs broadband never heard of it. I have been calling them to get ipv6 address they saying "is ipv5 working?". Pretty much non existant support clearly thriving on no competition from outside markets.

 

[Kaiju404]

whatever happens in these services market, it is the end consumer who gets the bamboo

 

[markiv]

@Rhishav its very true because of many reasons like housing societies charge normal player, but political connections and negative profile helps in expanding and laying underground fiber moreover 26% of tax encourages them further to collect in cash to avoid it. as per my understanding local players are good for this sector as they optimize cost. Jio and Airtel can only survive with bundled services in broadband sector, also they can bring in new tech to revolutionize market which will be later adopted by LCO(After prices drop considerably).

 

[Lucifer_King]

In my area, from last month, Jio has started the LCO model. Let's see how it goes.