they could,they could be not
their rates go down cause they buy wholesale,plus even if they make a loss on you they will make a profit on 98% of the users cause they don't download more so loss on few is made by everybody else.
Mostly in MTNL's case they would have cost for example of Rs.999 which would include 50gb bandwidth,service,wire cost recuperate,proft,tax.
Most people would stay inside the above 50gb limit so they make a profit and for who don't are exceptions and are made back by profit on the majority
Correct.
yeah i knew you said and i know it costs you the same to output 5mbps or 100mbps.And bandwidth is the main cost.
but then why say your plans are cheaper when you are gonna put a limit on your plans.
2 TB usage were just to show how it would do,not that anybody would do it.
I would atleast do 300gb on 5mbps.
And seeing your plans on rs.2300 5mbps plans which could do more than 1 TB.Why not give me 300gb 100mbps on rs.3000 as it would cost you the same as downloading 300gb on 5mbps
I don't think you are understanding anything I have said. Yes, you can download 300GB on our 5mbit/s flat-rate plan, but effectively speaking we will make a loss on you.
In addition, on a flat-rate plan, we have every right to implement traffic shaping if we so desire, whereas on the data plans, it is guaranteed that you can utilize the GBs you have paid for.
We *could* *theoretically* launch 100mbit/s flat rate at this price already, but the problem is that people like you would go nuts and "hog" all the bandwidth.
--> No internet provider pays his upstream bandwidth provider in terms of downloaded/uploaded data. They only pay in terms of bandwidth speed. So irrespective of how much data is transferred, the provider gets fixed bill for its subscribed speed. Before the cost of bandwidth to the provider was very high, but now internet exchanges have come up and reduced the bandwidth cost to almost near zero. Now any internet provider can connect to NIXI and get full national internet table for free cost and in the same way it can connect to any major internet exchange (ex. LINX) and get the global internet table at nominal cost. The only cost to the provider is the bandwidth pipe from its data centre to internet exchanges.
Firstly, I've never claimed that we pay per GB, but we have worked out an effective price per GB based on the amount transferrable by an STM-1 at the price given to us. We delegate bandwidth and formulate plans appropriately.
Secondly, clearly you've never read NIXI's tariff structure. If your transfer is 1:1 at NIXI, then good for you, but even hosting speedtest.net and mirrors for several distros of Linux, we are seeing realistic numbers closer to 3:1. NIXI bandwidth is easily the most expensive bandwidth we can procure.
--> But still the internet services are below standards in India when compared with developed countries. The average connection speed in India is 256Kbps. Still many providers charge users on data transfer basis. When provider is getting unlimited pipe to internet, then why charge users. The main reason is to recover last mile network cost and decrease the online time of users, so that the connection ratio can be increased. In India there is huge backbone bandwidth available, but not the last mile. The last mile is the network which reaches users home.
Because some users as above will utilize far more than other users, affecting the overall experience for everyone. While I have no beef per se with a user like solid_snake4rd utilizing 300GB of bandwidth, if it affects other customers, it has to be controlled.
--> Hence by utilizing the existing cable network and implementing new technologies on it, we will be able to provide high speed broadband services without any data transfer limit of any kind at an affordable prices.
The existing cable network is not very good.
--> And I almost forgot to mention the main point. We are the triple play service provider. So we provide
TV, Internet and Phone on the same cable network. Users can get advanced video services (ex. HDTV, Video on Demand, Interactive TV), high speed broadband and high quality phone service for a fixed affordable monthly charge. It is not mandatory to take all the three, users can opt for any service.
🙂 We should talk.
