DoT to submit final report on slow broadband speeds to PMO next week

[ratul]

Local isps are not reliable, I have a 1mbps connection with torrent caching @ 1.25k, but it goes down at times, it may sound funny but BSNL on the other hand had proved to be very reliable for me.

i on the other hand have a very good experience with my local isp, using it for past 5 years, completely satisfied, hardly any disconnections now, and even if there's one, it's solved in couple of hours, pings are almost always under 20ms anytime with speedtest and 60-110ms ping on singapore servers in BF3, speeds never dips below the plan speeds, so completely satisfied..

 

[101gamzer]

Why cant they fiber all India? I mean step by step we have enough money for it,then we are good to go.

 

[tkin]

Why cant they fiber all India? I mean step by step we have enough money for it,then we are good to go.

Over a billion people, mostly who are uneducated, living below the poverty line, who would rather have food and a shelter, who would, without a second thought steal the cables to get some money disagrees with your comment.

 

[Flash]

What difference this report is going to make?
It will be yet another report, just like others.

 

[rj27]

Over a billion people, mostly who are uneducated, living below the poverty line, who would rather have food and a shelter, who would, without a second thought steal the cables to get some money disagrees with your comment.

Then good luck dreaming fast and affordable unlimited Internet. Not laying a fibre network is also not going to bring down those basic services requirement. The cost of the National Optical Fibre Project due to lay fibre all over the country is fraction of the nonsensical projects getting churned up every year in a national budget that actually has a yearly spending of around 15 lakh crores.

The benefits are countless if one has the will to look at the positives, but people prefer to bury it down citing the scarcity of other basic stuff. A broadband project is not going to halt all other important development projects of the country. The government got around 1 lakh crore plus from the sale of 3G and 4G spectrum in just 1 time and there is more spectrum auction coming next year. The estimated cost of NOFN project is around 20000cr. Even after delays and corruption if it costs 50000cr thats still not even half of the earning. And above that the revenue possibility is much on fibre thanks to its unlimited throughput capacity unlike wireless spectrum which is very low capacity in comparison.

 

[rj27]

What difference this report is going to make?
It will be yet another report, just like others.

Well that's the irony of this country, hopefully things will change this time around if not absolutely fantastic then at least upto some acceptable level. Don't know when will the YouTube buffering curse will go from this country without getting a burning whole in the pocket.

 

[skeletor]

Time for Modi to prove whether he wants development or he is just another fad like Congress.

We need cheaper and faster internet. It can really help home businesses and open up a whole set of new economic opportunities.

 

[bssunilreddy]

Airtel is the best ISP in terms of uptime and reliabilty. Never had any issues when I was using their service.
It was damn expensive though compared to what local isps were offering.
But obviously for any premium there has to be a decent charge as well.

Airtel is best in terms of customer exploitation buddy.I used to have Airtel some 8 years ago.I disconnected their services and handed over their modem but still they generated a bill and finally they drew me to a court in order to settle for the period which I did not use so my father bargained with the Judge and paid 2.5k instead of 4k for that unused period.

 

[Flash]

We need cheaper and faster internet.

Exactly!! you stole my words.

 

[rijinpk1]

Airtel is best in terms of customer exploitation buddy.I used to have Airtel some 8 years ago.I disconnected their services and handed over their modem but still they generated a bill and finally they drew me to a court in order to settle for the period which I did not use so my father bargained with the Judge and paid 2.5k instead of 4k for that unused period.

it depends .sometimes it is good and sometime it is bad and it depends on area too. i had a bad experience with idea netsetter and an almost similar experience like you.

 

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

Iam doing good with MTNL DELHI 1 MBPS @ 999 , excluding 12.36% taxes and Modem rent of rs 75 also 200 calls free on landlinee

 

[skeletor]

Iam doing good with MTNL DELHI 1 MBPS @ 999 , excluding 12.36% taxes and Modem rent of rs 75 also 200 calls free on landlinee

5 years ago, you were using the same plan.

Shouldn't internet be cheaper now?

 

[theserpent]

I was on 650 1 MBPS TRUE UL from airtel, But airtel found out that i was getting it and shifted me automatically to a FUP plan.
Anyway,1 Mbps should be minimum

 

[hsr]

I have gone to the lengths (and failed ofc) of gathering funds to start an ISP to get better speeds/latency. (FYI it takes around 1Cr to set up a small/med sized one)
I hope they actually do something to improve the quality of service as well. TATA, Reliance and Airtel are the only corporations in India that can lease out huge bandwidths to companies, yet their Internet seems to be the costliest (for me; my locality). Contention ratios, however are much lower for them compared to other ISPs (Reliance has the lowest I think) which determines the quality you get. A 5Mbps connection having a contention ratio of 1:10 is much much reliable and better than a 20Mbps connection with 1:50 ratio. Then again, it depends on the number of users for your area.
Our NIB is using way too much traffic for IRCTC and related services, which gets those routes populated. Improvements in routing and infrastructure is also required for an "increase" in "speed", which all makes one think about schemes such as fastlane internet. I really fear that the Indian people won't bother about it and soon we'll all have

"Slow YouTube? Buy our <insert cheesy name> booster plan for Hi-Speed YouTube HD streaming*"

*plans available from 599/- per month**
**speeds subjected to traffic availability - upto 10Mbps
#Max contention ratio - Normal 1:50, Fastlane 1:15

 

[kg11sgbg]

Me on BSNL ULD999 (₹999) Home Combo BB plan ...
Wishing and hoping for increased speeds,and the HOLY GRAIL!!! of 1Mbps~2Mbps unlimited after FUP.

 

[vidhubhushan]

it depends .sometimes it is good and sometime it is bad and it depends on area too. i had a bad experience with idea netsetter and an almost similar experience like you.

very true. i had Airtel BB since 2008. got it disconnected in 2010. someone came to collect modem but i was not there. i told them on phone to collect it from my new address. they never turned up. after trying to persuade me for keeping it / transferring it for a month (rent free) they disconnected it as the area was not covered by them (no extra bills received). got Photon+ then. within 6 months got it disconnected (without any problem) and took mblaze. when mts closed services in UPE, got photon+ reconnected. almost after 6 months shifted to another place and got airtel bb again. asked photon+ guys to disconnect and it was done smoothly (without any extra bill). may be i am lucky in these matters.