Bright future for Broadband in India!!!!!!

Yesterday the lok sabha was adjourned over an issue of probable corruption ( over Rs.1 lakh crore) in the 2g and 3g spectrum auction by the honourable telecom minister Mr. A. Raja ...

Here are the news links:
2G Spectrum allocation disrupts parliament - Yahoo! India News
Uproar in Parliament over 2G spectrum allocation - India - The Times of India

Many politicians brought up protest demanding the sacking of the minister ( i hope they do) ... because since he has been minister from end of 2008 no major developments has been happening in the telecom industry ... 😢 but if the sack him the next probable candidate is Mr. Dayanidhi maran who has done an excellent job previously in 2006 & 2007 of bringing bsnl broadband and one India plan and revolutionised the Indian Telecom industry ...

So keep your fingers crossed that they sack Mr. Raja and bring him in...:thumbsup:

I hope if he comes in with the trai and bsnl under his control we could see drastic revolutionisation( hopefully a bsnl 100 Mbps plan by year end or atleast 2 mbps unlimited for 700 rs) ... :dance:

WOW, that could turn up to be awesome 😀

Mahahaha! My plan has finally come to fruition. On a serious note - this is just speculation. Although the potential always existed, no one knows how to utilize it. Major reforms are difficult for any government. But unfortunately reforms for us means disabling the corruption nexus existing in all forms of the government and public sectors. Which will reduce the "rozi roti" for these politcians. And i dont see that happening in my lifetime.

(hopefully a bsnl 100 Mbps plan by year end or atleast 2 mbps unlimited for 700 rs) ... :dance:

The highlighted bit is wishful thinking, but just reading this bit made me want to blow hope bubbles.

I am waiting for the day hi-speed internet will no longer rip a hole in the pockets of the aam aadmi. Decent internet in this country is too unjustifiably expensive. So even people like me who are heavy users and pine for a blazing fast connection cannot always afford to shell out something like 2k even, for a 2mbps + plan (in general, not referring to any ISP)... I am but a poor fledgling writer.

i am not sure why Dayanidhi Maran is so highly regarded as the man behind a pseudo broadband revolution in india. from what i remember... he just gave us some stupid plans like 2 mbps with 500MB data transfers on bsnl/mtnl? i am not sure. of course, i am no fan of mr. raja. the current 3G auctions scare me as the high prices are going to be reflective on the prices of the services that would be offered to us.

Hey, it might force the wholesale prices down, allowing us to do stuff like 5mbit/s flat-rate at Rs1000 or so 🙂

I should try and get a meeting with the upcoming minister if it happens.

stuff like 5mbit/s flat-rate at Rs1000 or so 🙂

That would be my Utopia.

That would be my Utopia.

It's already there in some countries. Laajakaistaliittym 10Mbit flat-rate 25 EUR or 1,450.46 INR

Translations:
Avausmaksu 0 € Setup Fee
(norm. 30 €)

Kotiinkuljetus 0 € Home Delivery
(norm. 15 €)

Welho Tietoturva Welho Home security
6 kk –50 %
(norm. 6 €/kk)

Perusmodeemi 0 € Standard Modem
(norm. 69 €)
tai or
WLAN 59 € WiFi Modem
(norm. 139 €)

10M paluukaista 10Mbit/s upload speeds
15,90 €/kk

Hmm... the 200M service is new, but I used to subscribe to this company way back when 100M was the most you could get (2007).

It's already there in some countries. Laajakaistaliittym 10Mbit flat-rate 25 EUR or 1,450.46 INR

Translations:
Avausmaksu 0 € Setup Fee
(norm. 30 €)

Kotiinkuljetus 0 € Home Delivery
(norm. 15 €)

Welho Tietoturva Welho Home security
6 kk –50 %
(norm. 6 €/kk)

Perusmodeemi 0 € Standard Modem
(norm. 69 €)
tai or
WLAN 59 € WiFi Modem
(norm. 139 €)

10M paluukaista 10Mbit/s upload speeds
15,90 €/kk

Hmm... the 200M service is new, but I used to subscribe to this company way back when 100M was the most you could get (2007).

Can you pronounce Eyjafjallajokull?

Can you pronounce Eyjafjallajokull?

[OFFTOPIC TANGENT]Icelandic and Finnish are completely different. Finnish is pronounced phoenetically (like Japanese, making it very easy to learn how to spell), while Icelandic is... far from it. I think it's more linguistically closer to Norwegian which is quite close to Swedish (Finland's other official language) and Danish.

Written properly it's actually Eyjafjallajökull - the umlauted o makes all the difference - and while I have heard news presenters pronounce it as Ei-yaf-yal-la-ju-kull, it would be more correct to say it kind of like "eya-fyat-la-yökl".

I took Icelandic lessons a couple of years ago because I was planning to go there. So short answer, yes. It's not that hard.

Try saippuakuppinippukauppias on for size. Or anything in Estonian, like perekonnaseisuametnikult. Or another Icelandic favourite gróðursetjum, fjarlægjum or laufblöðin.
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😉

The minister should be sacked as soon as possible.BSNL has become worse and worse day by day.No good plans, No reduced tarrifs. NOTHING:wall:.

but BSNL is not something that is totally controlled by the governement i believe. it is a public sector company with shares in the market. they have to be profitable in the end. 😀

i am not sure why Dayanidhi Maran is so highly regarded as the man behind a pseudo broadband revolution in india.

from what i remember... he just gave us some stupid plans like 2 mbps with 500MB data transfers on bsnl/mtnl?

i am not sure. of course, i am no fan of mr. raja. the current 3G auctions scare me as the high prices are going to be reflective on the prices of the services that would be offered to us.

yes the price of auction is what scares me a lot as well. but like others say if the price does come down then i guess all's well

you know today in india MTNL and BSNL has most hightek technology for broadband service provider but the government and technical persons dont know how to optimize dis if they will optimize this in 100% no single ISP in india can beat dem for example right now MTNL is providing triband package for dis they are having Servers Named with Alcatell SOTL and erricsonon erricson u get ip staring from 59.xx.xx.xxon Alcatel u get same ip but ur username has suffix@and the new servers which they have started 7-8 months ago u have @ suffix and ip starting from 120.xxx.xxx.xxx the fact is on all these servers MTNL provide iptv services but on alcatel for administration and maintainance of server they use programme called N2000 from huwei systemson other two servers they have some other programmes when u apply for certain plan they put certain profile and u get dat much sync rate but when u subscribe for iptv they add another profile of 4 or 6 mb so u get a sync rate of 6000kbps but both ur iptv and internet have differnet bandwidthhowever on these new SOTL server this new programme called n2000 they dont have such facilllity of two different profiles so they just remove ur old internet profile and put a single iptv profile and u get internet bandwith = ur sync rate thats d fact and mtnl is least bothered about this thing i have iptv i get sync of 6000kbps and i download at 650-705KBps and this is not the luck by chance i have iptv from last 8 months and totall of my 21 friends have iptv we all have @ suffix and ouur ip starts from 120.xxx.xxx.xxx and we all enjoying if u dont belive and u have mtnl BB in mumbai just get iptv and tell them to put u on SOTL server and c the change i dont know how many users are there likke me but m paying 599 from feb 2010 and b4dat i was paying 768rs so this is d fact these goverment companies are the best but they dont have proper cordination and by the way check my speed for 599/-:irock:😗:thumbsup:

you know today in india MTNL and BSNL has most hightek technology for broadband service provider but the government and technical persons dont know how to optimize dis if they will optimize this in 100% no single ISP in india can beat dem


Except the ISPs that supply MTNL/BSNL. Or a fully FTTH provider who doesn't segregate the network by IP-range (so no threads that say site-name.com not working from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

And I bet you don't know who controls MTNLs Video Calling 😉

for example right now MTNL is providing triband package
for dis they are having Servers Named with Alcatell SOTL and erricson
on erricson u get ip staring from 59.xx.xx.xx
on Alcatel u get same ip but ur username has suffix@
and the new servers which they have started 7-8 months ago u have @ suffix and ip starting from 120.xxx.xxx.xxx


That's a really dumb way to segregate a network. You'd think they'd at least do it geographically.

the fact is on all these servers MTNL provide iptv services but on alcatel for administration and maintainance of server they use programme called N2000 from huwei systems
on other two servers they have some other programmes when u apply for certain plan they put certain profile and u get dat much sync rate but when u subscribe for iptv they add another profile of 4 or 6 mb so u get a sync rate of 6000kbps but both ur iptv and internet have differnet bandwidth


IPTV is served on a different VLAN down your line and basically, providing the physical media has the capacity, whether you have IPTV service or not, it shouldn't affect your internet.

however on these new SOTL server this new programme called n2000 they dont have such facilllity of two different profiles so they just remove ur old internet profile and put a single iptv profile and u get internet bandwith = ur sync rate thats d fact and mtnl is least bothered about this thing i have iptv i get sync of 6000kbps and i download at 650-705KBps and this is not the luck by chance i have iptv from last 8 months and totall of my 21 friends have iptv we all have @ suffix and ouur ip starts from 120.xxx.xxx.xxx and we all enjoying

Uh... congratulations. So your line supports full-speed ADSL? Surely it doesn't affect your actual connection speed though if you're still on a 256k unlimited plan or whatever, does it?

if u dont belive and u have mtnl BB in mumbai just get iptv and tell them to put u on SOTL server and c the change i dont know how many users are there likke me but m paying 599 from feb 2010 and b4dat i was paying 768rs
so this is d fact these goverment companies are the best but they dont have proper cordination and by the way check my speed for 599/-:irock:😗:thumbsup:

How are your actual download speeds? Try this file: http://ubunturelease.hnsdc.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso then this file http://ubuntu.famit.com.sg/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso and post a screenshot of the download window. Will it be 55kbytes/sec or 500kbytes/sec? 🙂