Airtel Xstream fiber expanding to Kottayam

philip said:
Yeah I have seen them digging one main road near to my residence In fact they were not digging the road itself but only the footpath portion, but how they are implementing to each household is still a confusion, but the customer rep is confident that they will surely expand to all areas
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Are you sure they are from Airtel?.
 
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Sammy said:
Jio expansion in my area was done around Jan 2019, they literally did a 4-5km stretch on the main road next to my house in 2 nights.

Btw, I’m at my parents apartment in Ekm right now. They have an xstream connection, not seeing the best latency right now. ☹️ Lmk if you want me to run any ping tests.
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Of course I would love to know about their peering and alll , how about their browsing speeds and all comparing it with jiofiber . Did they have any local caches here in kerala ? How s ur overall experience using it ?
 
@Nitin nope.. my city is not that much big one ,airtel v fiber is availble in kannor kozhikode kochi only I think ,I dont know for sure.
 
Nitin said:
@philip What about jio?
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No sign of jio here anywhere 😅😅,no cable laying nothing at all . I will not expect them atleast for an year ,maybe ambani is having some cash crunch 😁. There 4g fiber cables are already there but I think they will not use it for their gigafiber.
 
@Sammy maybe u will have their true ftth itself, the places where they have true fiber are limited, but v fiber is common and was present already at least for some 5 6 years
 
@Nitin Maybe it depends upon the type of userbase a city has. Airtel was sleeping for many years, if they become proactive now they can gain customers in areas where jio fiber has not reached
 
@Nitin I’m sure that Airtels plan is to penetrate areas that Jio have set their infrastructure in. Jio is established in so many cities across Kerala but are doing 0 marketing, mainly due to an ongoing dispute with the KL government. I only got a Jio connection because I found out via the people putting up the post for their cables and even then I only took their connection recently by reaching out to their offices because I gave up on my local ISP. I’m certain Airtel will come in swiftly and sweep up all the customers that are seeking a better connection than the LCO provided ones.

@philip Normal browsing and stuff, it’s pretty good. Public IPv4, symmetrical speeds, etc. are great to have but I’m getting an added latency of 50ms to most services in the EU and NA. Getting 53ms to SG and about normal pings within India. Hopefully routing on xstream is better and it’s not a Kerala thing with Airtel.
 

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