Comments on: Got a name-sake Broadband connection? TRAI comes to your rescue

By: Vivek

Vivek — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:00:37 +0000

A similar login procedure is involved in Reliance Wimax broadband… its a weblogin, not even a dialer, and the consumer needs to login every 12 hours or so. Not as painful as indicom, but still not ‘always on’.

By: Amit Bagree

Amit Bagree — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:08:53 +0000

There might be a feature in the modem where you can setup “Always On”. Basically the modem will authenticate automatically every time and you won’t need to use the dialer software. I know BSNL has a similar setting so worth a check…

By: Indus Khaitan

Indus Khaitan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:25:19 +0000

In Tata Indicom’s broadband connection you have to login every 4-5 hours or so using their Web dialer. This beats the “always on” definition of broadband per TRAI.

The log out kills all my active SSH sessions and drops the VPN.

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:07:18 +0000

I doubt if it would really do well to consumer. Yes we may get good bandwidth at the end, but there are other factors to consider. A lot of consumers already think that broadband prices are high. Though I don’t have numbers, I doubt if the ISPs are making a lot of money either. So such regulations would result in blanket increase in prices and eventually slow down the growth in currently dismal broadband penetration in India. Or if that doesn’t happen in near future and there is a price war and squabble between ISPs, it could eventually result in small players loosing out, consolidation and price hike in the longer run anyway. In second case probably some poor service thrown in too.