What do you think of present India's broadband scene?

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I think there can be another 8% cut in Tariffs or increment in Speeds/data.

www.bloomberg.com

India Considers License Fee Cut For Household Broadband Service

India is considering a proposal to reduce the license fee for fixed-line broadband services to households, a move that would boost access and lower cost for internet service in Asia’s third-largest economy.
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New judgments are against this move

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Supreme Court stays refund of licence fee to UL-ISPs

The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted the government’s appeal against the telecom tribunal’s order that asked it to maintain parity between Unified Licence Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and old licensees on licence fee issue.
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Hope they will reduce prices in near future airtel prices are very expensive from 100mbps plans
 
First of all, I have experienced truly unlimited broadband in France that included landline and mobile sim. The landline and sim could dial 110 countries landline with unlimited access. Here, in Mumbai, I have one TATA FTTH which provides 2.5TB FUP with landline (unlimited call to landline and mobile) for around Rs. 800 and one MTNL FTTH which provided 220 GB FUP for RS. 800 with 200 landline call. Definitely, I experienced worst service by MTNL where, incoming landline calls are not always successful besides random disconnection after say 10-15 seconds. I am surprised why this MTNL is not made private as the scoundrel management could not fix the issue for months.

I do not think unlimited access will raise abuse. Anyhighly controlled system gives abuse and corruption. You can use knife for surgery to give life to a patient while you may also murder a person with the same thing. That does not mean knife will be sold to few individual. If access is given and proper publicity about use and abuse is spread by media, everything will become normal. We think about control because of 900 years of slavery. However, it is better to consider 5G for better bandwidth with IPV6. We need more businessmen like Ambany scattered over India for a balanced economic growth, we need businessmen to think about chip production. Controlling mob is medieval thought process which will take us backwards. Sorry for long lecture.
 
Current broadband scenario is like a dream for me. I started on 5 kbps shell account in 1996. Full internet access used to cost 200 Rs per hour (required STD call to Mumbai.. does anyone remember bom4.vsnl.net.in ? ).

Downloading a 2.7 GB file in a minute, WOW


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That too with a downtime of just 38 minutes over last 30 days.
 
Some ISP - Rubin or Ribbon (Didn't catch up the name) who is rolling out Fiber in one of the leading areas in Hyderabad.


Potential broadband plans according to In-charge guy

  • 50Mbps till 1TB - ₹499 > 1Mbps
  • 300Mbps till 4TB - ₹999 > 5Mbps
  • 500Mbps till 6TB - ₹1499 >10 Mbps
  • 1Gbps till 8TB - ₹2499 > 20Mbps


    Seems really good.... Fingers crossed. :love:
 
Should be without GST. Few mention prices with gst to maintain their attractiveness.
 
Differential pricing is a must in a country like India. Carrier Aggregation and Higher QoS must be reserved for higher priced plans. Tiered service is a necessity for progress and investment into network infrastructure. There’s a reason there is first class and business class on the same flight/train. Even wired broadband has tiered pricing for different FUPs and speeds.

The only reason I feel TRAI shot down this suggestion is because it will lash back at the investments Jio has made for JioPhone. All the higher ARPU customers likely to take higher priced plans will move to Airtel or Vi, and Jio will be left serving the masses with their pure-4G network for razor thin margins due to the lower ARPU of JioPhone.
 
I think mobile data prices need to go up, they need to provide hd content at FHD for free for broadband to be common, ARPU might come down so will be demand for spectrum so ARPU loss will be compensated as cost will come down, as vowifi is there to take advantage of low network. Yes we need better hardware providers. Companies like TP-Link sells discontinued products in other countries here at almost no discount.
When people will get OTT for free people will look for more bandwidth, that's where broadband penetration will improve and people will see use of higher bandwidth.
 
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