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New Delhi: The Government has warned telecom operators against marketing or advertising their services below 256 kbps download speed as broadband.
Such activities/publicising advertis€m€nts at a download speed of 64 kbps, 128 kbps will not come under the category of broadband services, an official statement from department of telecom said.
Any download speed which is at 256 Kbps or more can alone be termed as broadband services. Therefore, the telecom operators should not mislead the consumers by making such advertis€m€nts or adopt any marketing tactics, which would defeat the very purpose of providing broadband services.
DoT, in a communication issued to all operators, said branding or naming the services with less than 256 kbps download speed is not in accordance with the broadband policy announced last year.
The policy defines broadband as 'always on minimum' speed of 256 kbps. DoT's warning comes after it was found that most of the operators are positioning 64 and 128 kbps download speed as broadband or are clubbing it with the 256 download speed to gain from the customers. [/b]
hmm.....that doesn't make sense does it?.
sify and others will try sellin their pack without the broadband tag and get away with it. 🙁
New Delhi: The Government has warned telecom operators against marketing or advertising their services below 256 kbps download speed as broadband.
Such activities/publicising advertis€m€nts at a download speed of 64 kbps, 128 kbps will not come under the category of broadband services, an official statement from department of telecom said.
Any download speed which is at 256 Kbps or more can alone be termed as broadband services. Therefore, the telecom operators should not mislead the consumers by making such advertis€m€nts or adopt any marketing tactics, which would defeat the very purpose of providing broadband services.
DoT, in a communication issued to all operators, said branding or naming the services with less than 256 kbps download speed is not in accordance with the broadband policy announced last year.
The policy defines broadband as 'always on minimum' speed of 256 kbps. DoT's warning comes after it was found that most of the operators are positioning 64 and 128 kbps download speed as broadband or are clubbing it with the 256 download speed to gain from the customers. [/b]
hmm.....that doesn't make sense does it?.
sify and others will try sellin their pack without the broadband tag and get away with it. 🙁