Sunil Mittal gives up on cheap broadband in India: We are giving up on Airtel Broadband coz of FUP

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Exactly Admin,The price of dhaal and other cerals are same as here and Singapore, where they import all the food stuff, but here its not the case we grow and still pay a heavy price.There are many stuff offered cheap in developed and developing countries, all these corporates dont have much time to care about QoS to customer. This can be done only when the product as a whole is ignored from the particluar company.ShreeRaman
 
well if indian government had planned it like the chinese government... we would have gained too. but here in india. government does nothing. private bodies does something. as soon as they get on something big. government would start interfering. increases taxes. implement new laws. maximize their own profits before the thing dies due to excessive government interference. BPO industry in india is going to die. we do not have any hardware market. software is i guess left but china would take it someday too.
 
Chinese Government and internet?What good is internet with government controlling what you see.
 
i was essentially talking about the telecom hardware industry. foxconn. a company like that. cannot survive in india. because the government would not let it to survive.
 
Singtel has a coverage area the size of Mumbai and is a major hub for a number of international cables and also has a bunch of data centres. 'Nuff said.

1. This is more common in many countries than you might imagine.
2. This is more common than pure, unlimited plans on a worldwide basis.
3. See #2.
4. Wouldn't this be a government thing, not an Airtel thing?
5. Neither has anyone else.
6. I also got burned by Vodafone. I was on 1p/sec for about 3 days before I realized that it sucked.
7. That seems unusual.

Conclusion: Call rates in India are fantastically cheap on a worldwide comparison. Broadband... not so much. Just be thankful you don't live in NZ, Australia or South Africa where all of the above are expensive. NZ is about Rs10/minute to call mobiles. My parents pay Rs2700 for ADSL2+ broadband with 5GB usage (includes phone, but that is about Rs1200 of the cost only).

I agree Carley, But at the start of the DotCom revolution in early 70's there were not much undersea cables, Its after 85's this kind of rapid development took place in SE Asia. When you said about singapore's size, it still has a very good infrastructure which lacks in Mumbai, The Flood Capital Of INDIA.

There are many ways to develop in a field irrespective of the pro's and con's. If Airtel uses the rest of its bandwidth it can offer much cheaper broadband all over India in a span of 2 yrs max. It has 3M's of management, Sunil just think's "What he can do if i provide such hi speed connection..? Anyways he is abt to dload movies and other stuff."

So In that way the Customer who was once king for such companies is now in the streets running for justice in consumer forums.

ShreeRaman
 
updated the first post. :D the previous version was not nice.
 

FYI Admin,

I was sayin about Singapore where ppl from different parts of the world are ruling and not the chinese.

There is no such control of internet in Singapore, they only block porn sites whic is very common. Its a goverment which thinks Digital and not like us.

I give you a link where the PM uses his Nokia N95 to connect with his personal webpage.

- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong demos QIK[/URL]

The service is provided by Singtel in Singapore, but here when every state and its district gets its own infrastructre ready for a digital age there will be a need for such Greedy A** to provide QoS with top priority.

ShreeRaman
 
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mmm i am not sure but my friend in singapore once told me about quite a few limitations on internet usage in singapore. online piracy is very much monitored and you can get in trouble for getting caught for that.
 
S ite very much true, no one cares when you use youtube or any other video streaming service, but once you start using torrents you might get into trouble, But there are some exceptions like downloading a legal or public torrent is permitted for downloading a free project or linux,etc,. Problem starts when u get involved into downloading pirated stuffs.ShreeRaman
 
i am not suggesting here anything. but if you have such a control on the internet, you can afford to give out cheaper bandwidth because misuse is controlled.
 

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