mgcarley
Founder, Hayai Broadband
That 3 rs./GB is for BSNL, which doesn't own any of the submarine cables itself. For Airtel & others owning their own cables it should be lesser than this 🙂
Not necessarily. Rs3/GB (Rs900/mbit/month) sounds like it's coming pretty close to cost to me - probably couldn't go *too much* lower than that - those cables aren't cheap to build, ya know (not cheap as in i2i from Chennai to Singapore costing $250 million dollars not cheap), but at the prices they charge now and have been charging historically, I expect they've already made that money back so it'll just be operational expenses and maintenance.
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So they are making HUGE sums of money from limited download plans on wireline+ADSL side of the business.
Cost of Bandwidth is Rs 3/GB and Sale price of Bandwidth is Rs 170/GB for some plans. 😡
Looks like we need Egypt like revolution here in India to put an end to this extortion.
Don't forget the overage fees of 20, 30, 40, 50 paise/MB or more equalling Rs200-500/GB... or more with some ISPs!
Our charge is essentially going to be 1 paise per MB.
Not necessarily. Rs3/GB (Rs900/mbit/month) sounds like it's coming pretty close to cost to me - probably couldn't go *too much* lower than that - those cables aren't cheap to build, ya know (not cheap as in i2i from Chennai to Singapore costing $250 million dollars not cheap), but at the prices they charge now and have been charging historically, I expect they've already made that money back so it'll just be operational expenses and maintenance.
---------- Post added at 03:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:15 AM ----------
So they are making HUGE sums of money from limited download plans on wireline+ADSL side of the business.
Cost of Bandwidth is Rs 3/GB and Sale price of Bandwidth is Rs 170/GB for some plans. 😡
Looks like we need Egypt like revolution here in India to put an end to this extortion.
Don't forget the overage fees of 20, 30, 40, 50 paise/MB or more equalling Rs200-500/GB... or more with some ISPs!
Our charge is essentially going to be 1 paise per MB.