Airtel bumps up broadband speed to 4 Mbps on home connections – at no extra cost
By Muruganandham Krishnan at 19 March, 2010, 9:37 am
Bharti Airtel doubles broadband speeds at no extra cost. Bharti Airtel is launching a 4 Mbps wire line connection for just Rs 899 starting from 19-Mar-2010 which could raise the bar for broadband services in India. The company has also decided to make its existing broadband connections 50 per cent cheaper by doubling the speeds [...]
Read More >>High Speed Internet Infrastructure soon in India – BSNL sheds a new entity for Internet Infra
By Manoj Govindassamy at 4 March, 2010, 11:13 am
We know broadband penetration in India is bad. When many other countries are having average broadband speed at over 4 Mbps …There has been some initiatives from few players in the country to bump up the internet speed. One such is the Metro Ethernet Scheme of MTNL … over three years to lay a five lakh km optic fibre cable (OFC) network to reach every gram panchayat. Country’s Telecom Public Sector Unit (PSU), BSNL is shedding out an infrastructure company to implement this mega project and work with other PSUs like Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) and RailTel. The venture will be supported financially by the Universal Services Obligations Fund..
Read More >>Now starts the Broadband revolution – MTNL unveils 20 Mbps broadband speed – VDSL and Metro Ethernet
By Manoj Govindassamy at 29 December, 2009, 3:41 pm
Now, MTNL has again gone a step further and introduced very high bit rate digital subscriber line VDSL.VDSL, the next version of the current technology, (ADSL), will increase the data speed from 1-2 Mbps to 10-20 Mbps…. However, its not clear whether we need new kind of modems to move to VDSL plans.Tata Communications, has instead gone with a different technology called metro ethernet and offers speeds of up to 100 Mbps in Mumbai. However, MTNL, with its extensive in-the-ground copper lines and lakhs of DSL customers, has chosen to migrate to the next line of DSL technology, instead of putting in new ethernet infrastructure. Thats clever move.So far, higher broadband speeds (10Mbps or so ) are achieved through leased lines offered by players like Reliance Communications, British Telecom and Tata Communications…. With the increase in broadband speeds, the new platform will allow it to offer a large number of high definition (HD) TV channels on its IPTV services in the future.
Read More >>Broadband penetration in India – Broadband Subscriber base, Average connection speeds in India and other countries
By Manoj Govindassamy at 30 October, 2009, 1:55 am
As per the Broadband Policy, Broadband is defined as -“An `always-on’ data connection that is able to support interactive services including Internet access and has the capability of the minimum download speed of 256 kilo bits per second (kbps) to an individual subscriber from… The country’s broadband subscriber base will still be hanging on the lower orders even after few years.Not just the broadband penetration is weak, but the connection speed also…. From the below TRAI chart, 96% of 7 million broadband subscribers are still at 256 kbps speed.On a global basis, the average connection speed increased by approximately 11%, growing to 1.7 Mbps. South Korea is known to be the country with highest broadband penetration and with greater speeds. India with 256kbps average broadband connection speed, lags behind 75% of world countries in broadband penetration and at connection speeds. Aren’t our Telecom Providers (Airtel, Reliance, BSNL, IDEA, Tata and others) bold enough …
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