2mbps broadband ?? Still a dream

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BROADBAND SERVICES TO BE MINIMUM OF 2MBPS
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The Financial Express

There’s good news for Net-heads. All broadband connections will soon be upgraded to a minimum download speed of 2 Mbps, against the present speed of 256 Kbps. This follows a decision by the department of telecommunications (DoT) to change the definition of ‘broadband’ in accordance with international norms. At present, India defines broadband as speeds in excess of only 256 Kbps.

Once the change in definition takes place, all Internet service providers (ISPs) and integrated telecom service providers like Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications will have to do away with their 256-Kbps and 512-Kbps packages.

State-owned BSNL and MTNL migrated to a minimum speed of 2 Mbps from the beginning of this calendar year at the instance of the former communications and IT minister, Dayanidhi Maran.

With this kind of speed, bandwidth-intensive value-added services such as tele-medicine, tele-education, net conferencing, e-governance applications, broadband gaming, voice over IP (internet telephony), online music, streaming video and a multitude of other services will see substantial growth. Subscribers will also have a true Internet multimedia experience, particularly with streaming video.
 
Let them change the definition further to say that broadband = 2mbps minimum + unlimited. The moment they provide plans based on data transfer and hours, it is no longer broadband, and most Indians go for these because higher speeds are only provided on such knife-edge plans.
 
the pasted article is incorrect in saying bsnl/mtnl already started *minimum* 2mbps... as we know its "upto" 2mbps! 🙂 yup, looks like its still a dream...if the article is not bullsh*t and if TRAI/DoT really are going to force 2mbps *minimum* then i wonder what BSNL will do with its current 256kbps unlimited package... discontinue it or raise the price or what???
 
I just hope broadband definition doesnt become "Upto 2 mbps" instead of 2 mbps 🙁 . Btw the word unlimited is very important as well .
 

Yeh no wonder i will be beaten in few days 😛 i joined 3 year before you 🙂


The real reasons why bandwidth is expensive is:-
1. High cost of 'international' bandwidth due to under-utilization of fiber links( according to some estimates 90% of the fiber coming into India is dark),
2. The local bandwidth 'produced' locally in India is also sold for the same price causing anaemic network growth in terms of content/datacenter and makes even peering not useful.
3. Reseller mentality of cost plus models not taking into account the usefulness of growing the network.



That articles is really good .
 
This is pretty good news, but I wonder then what would happen to the existing plans. Would they continue them but not market them as broadband? Also, the big question is whether we would get unlimited 2mbps plans or crappy data-capped connections. If so, I think we are better off with 128 and 256 unlimited.
 
Unlimited 2 Mbps plans are still a long way off. For that to happen we need to have fast connections with reasonable data caps first. Something like 2 Mbps with a 25 GB cap is a good start. Forget about India , with the booming P2P traffic even developed nations are beginning to feel the squeeze in their network. What is needed is that the existing internet needs to be replaced with something better. Researchers need to find ways of sending more data in a single packet and simultaneously speeds should also be increased. To be precise they need to develop a super network.
 
there is already some "internet 2.0" work being done.... something called lambda rail and another one 🙂
 
1. High cost of 'international' bandwidth due to under-utilization of fiber links( according to some estimates 90% of the fiber coming into India is dark),

Can anyone please elaborate..? fibre in dark? does that means that it is not ustilized?...
 
Its no use even dreaming of such things.... 2mbps broadband with decently priced unlimited packages loooong looooooooong away.... even mtnl/vsnl havent come out with such schemes that common ppl can afford....
 

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