to mgcarley- my post #6 remains unanswered.
u should form a small association and meet/complain to bodies like CCI and then go to courts if needed.
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I think there are a couple already, but how far they get in such matters is... yeah.
Ohk..
Basically I was imagining it as, since most people leech, with uploads set to 1-2kBps
If they get some rebate instead of getting charged for uploads, they could seed properly as well
Would help their ratios and also the ISP
But, yeah there's no easy way of making sure the traffic passes through NIXI
This is a people problem as well.
Moreover, in no instance is an ISP inclined to help it's users pirate material. Period.
From NIXI homepage:
[*]The policy should encourage domestic Content being hosted out of India: This is the only way Indian ISPs can insist on Peering with their western counterparts rather than paying hefty transit charges to them. This will result in the overall lowering of cost of bandwidth in the country.
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In this case, "out of" should read "from" or "within".
Indian ISPs already peer with their Western counterparts - All of the big International suppliers peer in Singapore, US West Coast, US East Cost, HK, London and Palermo (among other places but these are some of the more major transit points), but the International transit charges still need to be paid for the cable systems by one party or the other so there's still that cost involved, and the peering at the other end is really an irrelevant cost - $1/mbit or often less in most of those places.
One of the problems that I've noticed in India is similar to that of NZ. Where Telecom NZ owns 51% of the only cable that touches NZ soil, Bharti, Reliance and
Tata all own the cables which touch Indian soil, which allows them to set a price according to their needs and make it somewhat difficult for anyone to really price them out - there is no impartial 3rd party that owns these systems, unlike the cable systems in Europe or the US - and the result is often anti-competitive pricing for wholesale bandwidth (which is only recently FINALLY being addressed in NZ).
In my case, any one of those companies could easily decide to offer their bandwidth at Rs10/GB as it seems may be the case very soon and put pressure on our margins etc. We're aware of this which is why we have to out-service them. On the other hand, in (for example) the US, Level3 and Global Crossing don't compete in the retail space - they provide carrier-grade bandwidth only and that's all they do. They can't really set a high price for one player and a low price for another as is the case here. In the European cases (and NTT) the countries concerned have extremely strict anti-monopoly rules and rules on competition but the ISP businesses and wholesale businesses are completely separate, with different AS numbers and everything, which again is not really the case here.
I used to think locally hosted content would be better as latencies and dependancy on international networks would reduce
I think it would. The challenge is getting the content here to begin with.