Mukesh Ambani sort of promises a price war in the broadband market in India

[ashish]

All i want is a simple wired high speed BB plan which currently seems nowhere in their plans as they want to bundle up host of services via wireless through their tablets with a contract

 

[Sushubh]

Well I just want them to launch widely with attractive plans. I do not plan to get their services as I am not really a fan of wireless broadband. I just want them to push the competitive to drive down prices to stay competitive.

 

[rak007]

Any chance they are talking about 4G LTE ?

 

[mgcarley]

I have no hopes. These companies are all cartel, like Mexican drug cartel, Indian Cartel.We need some Heisenberg to our rescue.Yes i am mad at broadband scene in this country.

You really want me to go around killing the people that are in my way? Probably not the best idea.

All i want is a simple wired high speed BB plan which currently seems nowhere in their plans as they want to bundle up host of services via wireless through their tablets with a contract

I don't think RJio is too interested in wireline as a delivery mechanism - if nothing else, that might be standing *too much* on the toes of RCOM.

 

[Deleted member 13033]

Rcom does't even have proper towers in Delhi and ncr. Connectivity is next to 0 and what ever towers other telecom co. had have also been sealed in many areas.

 

[WizZ]

RCOM dosent even have proper infrastructure to provide resonable service to its current broadband customers.. Mukesh Ambani is going to be sorry for trusting RCOM

 

[mgcarley]

RCOM dosent even have proper infrastructure to provide resonable service to its current broadband customers.. Mukesh Ambani is going to be sorry for trusting RCOM

If Mukesh was trying to utilize Anil's last mile, you might have a point, but that's not the kind of deal that's been struck here - he's bought a bunch of bandwidth on FLAG (and an IRU for I think 10 or 20 years for a fibre pair on one of Bharti's cables).If he's smart, that'll have multiple 40G wavelengths on it (100G would be better, but it's probably not going to be that - at least not initially) meaning his International capacity should rival or possibly be even more than RCOM's. This combined with the domestic RCOM dark fibre deal (which I would hope he plans on running 100G wavelengths), he should have plenty of capacity available to get from A to B both in and out of India.The trick, though, will still be delivering that to the end user - I've said it before and I'll say it again: wireless, no matter which flavour, is a finicky bitch - and I suspect that this is where the bottleneck will be, even using the latest and greatest LTE equipment.In my opinion, he's best to sell data at decent rates, not have ludicrous overage charges and don't bugger around with any of this unlimited/fup stuff - but this is India and what worries me is that this is exactly what will happen; and yet another operator will fail to learn that unlimited on wireless is widely recognized to just be a bad idea.