5mbits with 300gb dload limit would be ok.. but uploads shouldn be counted .
I think limiting both the download limit *and* the speed is a stupid idea. If we're going to say there is a 300GB limit, why not just deliver it at 100mbit/s? It costs us the same to do that.
Uploads currently are not counted and as of now that plan is not changing.
What if person dloads some odd 30gb in a day and rest 3 4 days just normal 1 gb.. would that be ok..?
We don't care really, we average it out over the 30 day period, so 59GB, whether on a flat-rate plan OR on a >60GB-data plan, would be fine for us.
yeah cost most don't know how uploads matter.
I have seen people blaming their download speed when they are upload an attachment with mail.They think its because of the download speed.....lol
Well, MTNL limits upload speed to 256kbit/s on all plans, it seems. When I have Skype video conversations with my wife, her camera is excellent quality, but the picture I receive is usually not so good and quite choppy, whereas my camera is awful but her picture is smooth because I have over 5mbit/s upload speed.
anyways,i wanted to know how much approx it cost you to lay 7.5 lakh KM fiber across the nation as you said before
It varies. There is plenty of perfectly good backhaul fiber all over India, so we don't mind using that so much.
It's just the awful, awful quality of the last mile, which is pretty much 100% copper except for Beam Telecom's FTTB network in Hyderabad, so that part we are definitely fixing.
We probably only need about 3-4,000km of last-mile fiber in a city the size of Mumbai: that would be an average of 5 fibers per square kilometer, which means hopefully no-one will be more than 200m from availability. Of course, in Mumbai, that costs many crores.
just curious cause i read an article today saying government has laid out 5 lakh KM of fiber across nation for Rs.18,000 crore
Is that all? Let's buy 3. Obviously laying fiber in the middle of nowhere Uttar Pradesh is way cheaper than any of the major centres.
the major drawback for me in taking your connection would be Prepaid payment and that you don't have a fixed contention ratio of 1:8 or lower like most others
We're not a DSL network, so contention doesn't *really* apply to us, but I believe I did explain in another thread
https://broadband.forum/broadband-india/57888-new-broadband-service-provider/3/#post392886 that at the border of our network it works out to not more than about 5:1. Within the network its not more than 1:2.67, or about 0.375:1.
also you taking alot of time.Already people are offering 2mbps unlimited for Rs.2000 and by the year end could go to 4mbps under Rs.3000 fully unlimited.
In my country, we have a saying. Well 2. 1. "Good things take time". 2. "If you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself".
And whenever you will launch other big entities will compete which will make it a tougher choice
So be it. Imagine how the situation would be if there were no competition.
