vishalrao
The Global Village Idiot
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- Location
- Pune
- ISP
- Tata Play 1 gbps, Microscan 500 mbps, Jio AirFiber 100 mbps. Prior PDPL 300 mbps and BSNL 300 mbps.
Back to broadband, would urge you to read more. As mentioned in one of the previous posts, the 95 mbps number is inflation due to high speeds in limited areas, and barely 5-10 mbps in most of the country (in the ISPs defense, US is a huge country, population density is low in many areas, and thus laying a fiber is not the cheapeast option). The ISPs lobby hard against getting competition in their area, heck even Google Fiber had to withdraw from some areas due to political and lobbying pressure. Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are some of the most hated companies in the US. And here I quite like Airtel, and to some extent, even Jio. Local ISPs in my area are also pretty good, with low downtimes.
Yeah we shouldn't be comparing to the US as it is not very advanced in broadband area. We should compare more to eastern/asian countries like South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong etc who are the real front-runners in speeds and pricing.