With erratic speeds and poor quality of service, high-speed Internet is still like slow torture
Sandhya Jain, a Delhi-based author, says she's had enough of high-speed
Internet. The promised 128 kilobits per second (kbps) is never more than 56-65 kbps. Apart from the crawling speed, there are mysterious drop-offs several times a day, just when she's getting down to work. And don't even mention service—three months ago, Jain shifted from a top cable broadband service to the largest private broadband service provider. But there's been no respite. She now plans to wait a few weeks before taking a call on changing her service provider yet again.
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Taking cue from the success of mobile telephony, it had set an ambitious target of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010. The performance has been abysmal. Against a target of 9 million broadband subscribers by December 2007, the number of users is languishing at around 3.1 million. "The main component in providing good broadband speed is the quality of the line and international bandwidth. If both these are good, there is no reason why broadband access speeds should be less,'' says A.K. Arora, executive director, MTNL, Delhi.
The Illusion Of Movement : outlookindia.com
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And I thought that TRAI was taking some huge steps to improve the already erratic broadband services in India. For now, the dream of getting high speed broadband remains to be a wishful thinking.
Comment.
Sandhya Jain, a Delhi-based author, says she's had enough of high-speed
Internet. The promised 128 kilobits per second (kbps) is never more than 56-65 kbps. Apart from the crawling speed, there are mysterious drop-offs several times a day, just when she's getting down to work. And don't even mention service—three months ago, Jain shifted from a top cable broadband service to the largest private broadband service provider. But there's been no respite. She now plans to wait a few weeks before taking a call on changing her service provider yet again.
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Taking cue from the success of mobile telephony, it had set an ambitious target of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010. The performance has been abysmal. Against a target of 9 million broadband subscribers by December 2007, the number of users is languishing at around 3.1 million. "The main component in providing good broadband speed is the quality of the line and international bandwidth. If both these are good, there is no reason why broadband access speeds should be less,'' says A.K. Arora, executive director, MTNL, Delhi.
The Illusion Of Movement : outlookindia.com
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And I thought that TRAI was taking some huge steps to improve the already erratic broadband services in India. For now, the dream of getting high speed broadband remains to be a wishful thinking.
Comment.
