Broadband In India

India manages to beat Egypt, Nigeria in Broadband Connectivity [sad state]

By sinha 4 Comments

Broadband speed in India – India manages to beat Egypt, Nigeria in Broadband Connection [and maintain Digital Divide] Read More »

Broadband in India

05 Mar

On Airtel and Tata Indicom’s Fair Usage Policy – Tragedy of the Commons?

By sinha 41 Comments

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 … Read More »

Broadband in India, fair usage policy from ISP or operators

28 Nov

Broadband penetration in India – Govt. throws another bait?

By sinha 7 Comments

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: … Read More »

Broadband in India, trai

26 Sep

TRAI’s report on Indian Telecom Industry and the dismal broadband penetration in India

By sinha 5 Comments

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 & … Read More »

Broadband in India, Indian Telecom Industry