I havent seen a single MTNL or BSNL connection with FTTH/FTTC/FTTN or even FTTB...MTNL exchanges are connected to subscribers thru decades old copper wiring..same is the case with BSNL..even the airtel connection to the cabinet outside my home is copper..airtel coverage is limited coz they dont go anywhere where its not profitable for them to go...donno why u are referring to fibre?..we are talking abt IPTV taking into consideration its rollout on the connections as they already exist in India where what we have is 99.9 %
ADSL on cat 3 copper with a 2 Mbps sync speed in most cases..and the SNR margin while good enuff to run to run the line at 2 Mbps doesnt inspire the same kind of confidence regarding stability when the line gets synced (atleast) to 6 Mbps to run IPTV
Of course you haven't. You're talking about ADSL which has a range of about 5km and has some tolerance for shitty wiring. I'm talking about VDSL which has a much shorter range and not as much tolerance. If you looked at a VDSL deployment from either MTNL, BSNL or Airtel (which are still few and far between because of the pricing), I can pretty much guarantee that for it to work at all, they've run fiber to somewhere very nearby, stuck in a VDSL DSLAM and hopefully run some new copper from there to the premises.
I have had 2 broadband connections in the same name from a PSU..donno wats the regulation that would forbid that.. if its there pls enlighten me..
There isn't anything stopping you from having 2 broadband connections. However the same login-ID is not allowed to be used simultaneously according to the ISP license.
Mathew u are again missing the point...i have never said that POTS cannot support 2 or more channels..point is IPTV is being run on POTS lines that already exist and in case of MTNL and BSNL these lines are atleast 3-5 Kms in length and not very sound quality wise..which severely limits the ability of the line to support large amounts of data..so while it is technically possible there might be need for an additional line in quite a few cases quite simply coz the existing line is too poor.
Ofcourse fibre maybe deployed in the future but my reply to the original poster was about the present situation..ie why Airtel or for that matter any other BB provider in India *might* need a second line to give him 2 channels
You're also missing the point that the OP is looking for a second IPTV connection from Airtel, whose deployments are usually done from within the society, meaning the cable-run is only a couple hundred meters at most and therefore MTNL/BSNLs wiring doesn't come in to play.
What I'm saying therefore is that while theoretically and technically possible (for those on Airtel, at least), it's most likely that the user will need to purchase a second broadband connection in order to get a second IPTV connection due to the licensing and regulation behind any devices accessing the internet in India, which includes IP-capable
TVs and Set-Top Boxes.
Fortunately, however, he probably doesn't need to purchase the same level of broadband plan and can surely get away with the lowest available tariff that they have to offer, which at least reduces the hit on the wallet.
Although even then, Airtel is allowed to dish out more than one login-ID for each connection, so they probably want you to get the second connection due to some company policy.