Tiger80 Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 India Internet access (2011): 10.1 per cent Global rank: 136 Broadband access (2011): 1.0 per cent Global rank: 112 http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-tech-how-many-indians-use-internet-find-out/20121012.htm
panesarv Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Is that why Sachin didn't win People's choice award?
Clarke Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 What's surprising ? BTW the fury of a billion of us online
CG Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Anybody who has a mobile in todays world has internet access and india mobile nos have grown rapidly.
Trichromatic Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 What's surprising ? BTW the fury of a billion of us online and all of them on twitter.
Trichromatic Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Anybody who has a mobile in todays world has internet access and india mobile nos have grown rapidly.
punjabi_khota Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 ^that is 18 months old data. The last number easily could have doubled by now.
Trichromatic Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 ^that is 18 months old data. The last number easily could have doubled by now. 460 million wireless subscribers capable of accessing internet by June, 2012.
kubrickian Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 In India, Internet also has a stigma associated with it. Middle class families, especially in smaller cities and towns who are typically conservative dont allow internet at home so their children wont have access to "ashleel" content.:giggle:
ViruRulez Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_subscriptions#Countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users India is one of the worst in the world in terms of broadband penetration. FYI even 256 kbps is considered broadband in India. Anything less than that is not even worth using. Sorry but dialup and gprs connections takes ages to open a single webpage and cannot be ethically called internet access. In terms of mobile internet, anything starting from 3g can be considered broadband though 3g speeds are not that great in most places of India either and fluctuate frequently (often reaching 2g speeds). In terms of internet, India is still living in the iron age except a handful of cities such as Hyderabad and Bangalore where high speedsa nd competition in the market and connectivity at affordable prices have come a few years ago.
DomainK Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 If only half the Indians were regular netizens, we could take over the internet.
Crookbond Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_subscriptions#Countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users India is one of the worst in the world in terms of broadband penetration. FYI even 256 kbps is considered broadband in India. Anything less than that is not even worth using. Sorry but dialup and gprs connections takes ages to open a single webpage and cannot be ethically called internet access. In terms of mobile internet, anything starting from 3g can be considered broadband though 3g speeds are not that great in most places of India either and fluctuate frequently (often reaching 2g speeds). In terms of internet, India is still living in the iron age except a handful of cities such as Hyderabad and Bangalore where high speedsa nd competition in the market and connectivity at affordable prices have come a few years ago. Don't expect that to improve. We pay a high price for broadband - people will never understand this.
ViruRulez Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 If only half the Indians were regular netizens' date=' we could take over the internet.[/quote'] Take over the internet would not be the right words. The quantity of internet traffic from India would never meet the quality and hence, we would never take over. Most Indian traffic were regarded as lame traffic and only bandwidth gulpers by most of the west in the past as Indians never spend money or convert online. Things have changed a lot in recent times with introduction of ecommerce in India (though mostly Cash on Delivery unlike upfront payment like the West) but there is still a long way to go. In the past, it was regarded that 10000-20000 Indian impressions are equivalent to 1000 US impressions or so. Irrespective of the number of internet users, the quality would never match up to the quantity. Agree. Check this following Romanian website. A 100 Mbps pure unlimited plan there costs less than Rs.600 (584.885 on changing 39 leu to Indian Rupees). Whole of Europe and most of Eastern Asia has dirt cheap broadband compared to Indian standards. And hardly anyone has BS FUP restrictions as in India. :(( http://www.rcs-rds.ro/internet-digi-net/fiberlink/pachete http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=39&From=RON&To=INR
Clarke Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Why is broadband expensive in India while cellular telephony dirt cheap ? The very concept sounds contrary to logic, wireless spectrum is a limited resource but broadband is generally associated wtih cable/dsl/fiber. Is it the high initial investment or tax structure or both ?
ViruRulez Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Why is broadband expensive in India while cellular telephony dirt cheap ? The very concept sounds contrary to logic' date=' wireless spectrum is a limited resource but broadband is generally associated wtih cable/dsl/fiber. Is it the high initial investment or tax structure or both ?[/quote'] There are several reasons. The biggest reasons off course are the broadband mafia and penetration rate in India. Broadband is in the hand of a few companies and they normally tend to extract maximum profit out of the lines unless there is competition. For example, in cities like Bangalore and Hyderabad due to low priced fiber connectivity by companies such as Beam Fiber, Act Broadband etc. all major broadband providers reduced their prices. Hyderabad is ideally regarded as the first city in India with affordable high speed broadband (more specifically Beam Fiber which started it). So, once the major broadband providers lost nearly 2 lakh connections in Hyderabad to Beam Fiber within a couple of years due to their extremely affordable plans (for example, their popular 10 mbps plan for Rs.1000 with 30 GB FUP [upload not counted) and then 2 GB unlimited for the rest of the month) that mainstream broadband providers started reducing prices for Hyderabad. Beam Fiber as per reports is still very profitable and is now expanding in Bangalore as ACT Broadband. So, it is not as if affordable high speed broadband cannot be provided but the nexus of telecom biggies had decided to extract the highest possible profit margins for their connections. One more thing that Beam did was that it took an initial investment and was bold enough to lay fiber network all throughout the city of Hyderabad. It was an one time investment but benefited them in the long run (in fact it is assumed that they recovered the fiber laying costs much before they reached even 1 lakh customers leave apart 2 lakhs). Second reason is broadband penetration in India. But it is also indirectly related to promotion and affordable broadband. For example, Hyderabad did not have that much broadband penetration in the past. But once affordable high speed plans were provided by Beam Fiber which were unheard of in the past in India, it became extremely popular. And instead of paying crores to movie stars and celebrities for ads, they used good animation ads on TVs and posters throughout Hyderabad to attract customers. You can click on View Movies on their website http://www.beamtele.com/ to check the animations. So, once people realized the benefits and cheap prices, the broadband penetration increased a lot more. But then Hyderabad is a major Indian city and so, penetration would anyways be higher. But you cannot expect the same in smaller cities. It is possible but there have to be proper advertisements on TV. In fact, I have not yet seen any promotion on TV for broadband services by any of the major BB providers. Without good penetration, the cost of maintenance is quite high and in many cases unaffordable. So, the status quo remains in many parts of India where telecoms are concentrating more on cellular connections and DTH services rather than broadband or internet.
Crookbond Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Here is one reason it was high prior to 2003 http://nixi.in/ Viru, Capitalism is not the only reason for ultra high costs.
GautiMaan Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 My plan-2 Mbps,30 GB FUP after which the speed comes down to 256 kbps for a whopping 1400 bucks in Chennai Why cant the ****ers provide a constant rate within India?
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