When will the jackasses in New Delhi wake up and get something done . . . . 1 gigabit/sec is a fairytale as we just try and grow out of FUP!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/technology/22iht-broadband22.html?_r=1
excerpts from the article
"South Korea already claims the world’s fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the government here. By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second."
"A pilot gigabit project initiated by the government is under way, with 5,000 households in five South Korean cities wired. Each customer pays about 30,000 won a month, or less than $27"
if currently people are paying so low on the pilot . . . once completely rolled out economies of scale should kick in and pricing should head further south
"South Koreans pay an average of $38 a month for connections of 100 megabits a second, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development."
I guess the newer technology will be cheaper. Still even then they are paying an equivalent of 1700 bucks a month for 100MBit speeds.
I don't get why in India its still so expensive. We have a huge huge market. With a population of a billion people there is massive scale possible. This is already demonstrated by the pricing of cellular services. Indian cellular services are by far the cheapest in the world. Why then is it so difficult to implement a similar model in broadband.
For the record population of South Korea is just 48mn - about 2.5x Mumbai's population. And number of broadband connections is estimated at 16mn. India already has 10mn broadband subscribers. And the rate of growth is staggering. In 2006 it was 1.5mn and in 2007 it was 2.5mn. Today we are at 10mn. So we are way ahead on scale as well as growth opportunities.
I don't see why any profit making corporation wouldn't want to exploit such a lucrative opportunity. Then I guess the slow pace of broadband growth should be attributable largely to policy decisions in new delhi . .. what say?
comments welcome.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/technology/22iht-broadband22.html?_r=1
excerpts from the article
"South Korea already claims the world’s fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the government here. By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second."
"A pilot gigabit project initiated by the government is under way, with 5,000 households in five South Korean cities wired. Each customer pays about 30,000 won a month, or less than $27"
if currently people are paying so low on the pilot . . . once completely rolled out economies of scale should kick in and pricing should head further south
"South Koreans pay an average of $38 a month for connections of 100 megabits a second, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development."
I guess the newer technology will be cheaper. Still even then they are paying an equivalent of 1700 bucks a month for 100MBit speeds.
I don't get why in India its still so expensive. We have a huge huge market. With a population of a billion people there is massive scale possible. This is already demonstrated by the pricing of cellular services. Indian cellular services are by far the cheapest in the world. Why then is it so difficult to implement a similar model in broadband.
For the record population of South Korea is just 48mn - about 2.5x Mumbai's population. And number of broadband connections is estimated at 16mn. India already has 10mn broadband subscribers. And the rate of growth is staggering. In 2006 it was 1.5mn and in 2007 it was 2.5mn. Today we are at 10mn. So we are way ahead on scale as well as growth opportunities.
I don't see why any profit making corporation wouldn't want to exploit such a lucrative opportunity. Then I guess the slow pace of broadband growth should be attributable largely to policy decisions in new delhi . .. what say?
comments welcome.
