Broadband speed in India - India manages to beat Egypt, Nigeria in Broadband Connection
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We covered TRAI’s recommendation on introducing regulations to ensure that ISPs provide internet connections based on the capacity of traffic they can carry (i.e. contention ratio). As per TRAI’s new regulation, telecom operators offering Internet services should not accommodate over 50 users per unit of Internet bandwidth in case of home users and 30 users...
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Did you know that Indian govt. declared 2007 to be the “Year of Broadband”? Like plethora of other promises, they forgot this one too! Forget about the penetration, India stands nowhere as far as Broadband speed is concerned. Few stats: As of August 2007, the total broadband connection in India was only 2.56 million...
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TRAI released the 2007 telecom report and here are a few key findings: The total number of telephone subscribers has reached 241.02 million The overall teledensity has increased to 21.20% in August 2007 The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL(F)) base reaches 201.29 million The wireline segment subscriber base stood at 39.73 million (decrease of...
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