I work for a one of the top Software development company here in bangalore.. and about 6 back months my team was working on an AT&T project.. The client called me on my cellphone at morning 2 as there was some issue with the software we were developing.. I had to login to my system from home.. I had a
TATA Indicom Walky dail up connection tat time..I had kept it jus to check my personal mail.. when I tried logging in it took my 25-30 min to login to the remote desktop, and it was so dam slow..the client kept asking me are u logging on again and again and I kept telling him..give me some time..eventually he disconnected and then next morning there was an escalation mail which went to my senior managers and copying the India head stating that employees are laid back and dont support 24*7 (it was mentioned in the contract).. Which also effected my annual performance..
I access my
windows 2003 servers in USA from my home sometimes on an Airtel 256 kbps DSL connections. My experience is that even a 256 kbps connection is not sufficient. You need a good 512 kbps connection to do anything. Trying to use remote desktop on Tata Indicom or Reliance CDMA connections is simply a wastage of time IMHO.
Further I have lost counts on how many times I was talking to a client in USA on VOIP (Skype or Yahoo) and the call dropped or a conversation on Yahoo messenger ended abruptly because my Airtel DSL connection went down for 5-10 minutes.
You people are right but the thing is : More Demand = More Supply.
Currently, the demand is less so the supply is less.
Don't forget that India has the cheapest calling rates in the World. Why? That's because of the volume (the demand). Same rule applies to broadband. Broadband is still more of a luxury than a necessity here.
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I don't agree with you. Demand is less because cost is so high. It is a perfect chickens or the eggs situation. Demand will not jump unless the prices come down first.
When I bought my first cellphone in 1998 (or was it 1999), I was paying Rs 16.5 per minute for both outgoing and incoming calls. Cellphone was a status symbol for most people or a cool gadget for me. Cellphone subscriber base jumped in 2001-2002 when both MTNL/BSNL launched their services with per minute call rate of Rs 2 to Rs 4 and now everyone who could afford to spend Rs. 300 per month could get a cellphone. India was adding under 1 lakh cellphone users every month at that time. With prices coming down now we have 8 million or more people are buying cellphones every month in our country. So the prices came down first and the user base started expanding a few months or may be an year after that.
Similar things can happen with broadband also. If the price of a 256 kbps unlimited connection is brought down to under Rs 250 per month and a 2 mbps connection under Rs 700 per month, then the broadband penetration will just jump in our country. Remember there is a service tax too which adds to the overall cost significantly.
But a 2 mbps unlimited for Rs 700 appears to be a distant dream...