mgcarley
Founder, Hayai Broadband
WHY the hell do these INDIAN ISP's keep FUP, if they cannot afford to provide unlimited bandwidth, they should atleast keep lower speeds of around 512 kbps or 1 mbps without FUP at RS 600 or more but below RS 1000.
Never HAD this issues in DXB with ETISALAT. But their a big advantage is their r a lot of unsecured networks, where i am the the lucky person to get 2 mbps wifi connection free near my flat.
Dubai is not India. Dubai doesn't have the sheer density of population that India does, and it also has a much smaller area.
The big ISPs should be able to afford ~512kbit/s unlimited at around Rs600 (as MTNL does), but at the same time perhaps the vast distances involved for companies like BSNL and the resulting cost per route kilometer of backhaul are preventing this from happening at present.
I had a meeting today for Hayai NZ where I got a cost for a 1Gbit/s link between Auckland and Hamilton will be NZD$8000 a month (which works out to $8/mbit or about 2.7 cents per GB on top of the international transit rates) - for a distance of about 120km. I haven't got the same costings from this particular company for 10Gbit/s or Dark Fibre yet, but I know that as the speed increases, the rate becomes significantly cheaper per mbit.
Let's assume the same prices in India (it's not, but for the sake of an argument), on a scale of 1200km as the case is for Mumbai to Delhi, then probably the cost would work out to be 27 cents per GB (about Rs9.5), so if we assume then a cost of international being only Rs3.5, add Rs9.5 for domestic transit = Rs13/GB = 600 rupees will get you what, 45GB at best?
Airtel and others, on the other hand, I don't think have this excuse, since their (wired) coverage areas are somewhat more limited to certain spots in the cities which they cover - half of which are probably only covered because they can drop some equipment at some smaller town which is along the route leading to a larger city and they "might as well" provide services there.
Of course, I'm just guessin' - take these figures and assumptions with a grain of salt.
But moving back on to Sify, yeah, there's only mention in the document about the 150MB daily limit, while in the FAQs it reads "we don't have a FUP" - I wonder which is the truth (I have no plans to subscribe and find out, but would be interesting no? Also, shouldn't this thread be moved to the Sify Broadband category?)
Never HAD this issues in DXB with ETISALAT. But their a big advantage is their r a lot of unsecured networks, where i am the the lucky person to get 2 mbps wifi connection free near my flat.
Dubai is not India. Dubai doesn't have the sheer density of population that India does, and it also has a much smaller area.
The big ISPs should be able to afford ~512kbit/s unlimited at around Rs600 (as MTNL does), but at the same time perhaps the vast distances involved for companies like BSNL and the resulting cost per route kilometer of backhaul are preventing this from happening at present.
I had a meeting today for Hayai NZ where I got a cost for a 1Gbit/s link between Auckland and Hamilton will be NZD$8000 a month (which works out to $8/mbit or about 2.7 cents per GB on top of the international transit rates) - for a distance of about 120km. I haven't got the same costings from this particular company for 10Gbit/s or Dark Fibre yet, but I know that as the speed increases, the rate becomes significantly cheaper per mbit.
Let's assume the same prices in India (it's not, but for the sake of an argument), on a scale of 1200km as the case is for Mumbai to Delhi, then probably the cost would work out to be 27 cents per GB (about Rs9.5), so if we assume then a cost of international being only Rs3.5, add Rs9.5 for domestic transit = Rs13/GB = 600 rupees will get you what, 45GB at best?
Airtel and others, on the other hand, I don't think have this excuse, since their (wired) coverage areas are somewhat more limited to certain spots in the cities which they cover - half of which are probably only covered because they can drop some equipment at some smaller town which is along the route leading to a larger city and they "might as well" provide services there.
Of course, I'm just guessin' - take these figures and assumptions with a grain of salt.
But moving back on to Sify, yeah, there's only mention in the document about the 150MB daily limit, while in the FAQs it reads "we don't have a FUP" - I wonder which is the truth (I have no plans to subscribe and find out, but would be interesting no? Also, shouldn't this thread be moved to the Sify Broadband category?)
