Well the discussion is getting hot.. N I don't wanna blame the private ISP's in India. They r willing to provide us with even 100Mbps bandwidth like our tech said in a previous post! The problem is the POLITICAL AH's. Those guys will never let India improve. The problem is TRAI n BSNL. Its been a rule that whatever BSNL does first only then can other ISP's provide them and that too with a million conditions. This is a difference in other developed countries, they r working to bring their country technically sound. This also has a serious impact on the economy. While many indian villages lack electricity, food, water and shelter, we city ppl sit at the comfort of our house n brag about kbps Internet! 🙁 [No Flaming plz..]But as consumers we have the right to ask more and the govt. is liable to provide us what we require. Things will change only if politics improve n only if the govt. agencies like TRAI relax some rules for private ISP's and Cable Networks. I'm imagining an India with FTTH Tier - 1 networks to the last mile offering speeds of 1Gbps for as low as Rs.1000 with 90% uptime guarantee. I guess T-1 is just a dream even for our Great Great Great Grandchildren. While Americans at that time will have 100 Tbps last mile connections, we'll be satisified with our 10Mbps connection! 😛Sorry, but I never wanna degrade our own country. But that's wht is happening in our country now! I'm as patriotic as anyone in our country but patriotism is different from the true fact!! 🙁