Topic: Net Neutrality in India - page 3. (Read 2438 times)

Yes 20 € a month for a 32/2 Mb is very good, Germany is a very good country... maybe one day I will visit it.

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Maybe as Sithara 007 said, in the metro city there isn't that problem. The problem is the countryside city, etc.


When I am see the Google fiber, I really can't imaginate those people surf internet at 1 Gbps and here I have 20 Mbps  .

It really depends on the infrastructure that is invested by the telecommunication providers, also to note that India is a HUGE country and bigger countries always tend to have slow/bad internet connections. Probably in 10 years the cable/internet infrastructure will be better and more stable. It's just a matter of funding and time.

Net neutrality is only a problem because existing telecom companies have incredible government grants and restrictions making it extremely difficult for new businesses to sprout, as it's too expensive.  Because you have a limited amount of companies providing any given service, those companies can easily collude and lobby and do whatever the hell they want with their businesses, such as slowing traffic and charging for certain sites.  What are you gonna do, change services?  You got like two, maybe three max options in any given area, you're pretty much screwed if they all agree on the same practices.

The solution?  Take away these grants and restrictions, stop allowing your government to regulate your businesses, and regulate them yourselves with your money.  In this case, if any single business starts acting naughty, there's plenty of alternatives to go to; the more alternatives, the easier it is for any one company to undercut another company and take their business as their own.  That's good: this is what competition does, you either be the best at what you do or you go under for being crap.  No need for net neutrality, it'd never be a problem.

And what do people advocate?  More government grants and restrictions: classify the fuckers as a public utility and further solidify their ranks as oligopolies, making it that much harder for any new business to come up and compete.  The fuck is wrong with people?  Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs  Caterpillar is "the people", wasp is "the state and all its kin including corporations", and the maggots, well that's the wasp's ideas slowly killing the caterpillar while it cares and nurtures these ideas to its own death.  Some seriously fucked up zombie mind control voodoo bullshit going on here.  There's also folklore in Africa surrounding the idea of zombies, except they're not undead, they're just slaves to the "witch" that turns them into mindless drones.  Expending one's time, energy and health for the benefit of a predator...I have to say, it's among the most vile schemes in this world.

In my opinion, the Metro cities in India like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, etc. has good net connectivity compared to other non-metro cities. The band width which is being used by major telecom are better in Metros. I know all this because I have lived in many metro cities in India.

I pay 20€ a month for 32/2 in Germany, I wouldn't expect India to have a great broadband service, but I didn't expect that it would be really expensive too!

I would be interested to know if in the bigger cities this if different, I mean 4g is much faster than 512kb/64kb, so it shouldn't be hard to implement in big cities.

Can I ask you where do you live? Here in Italy at the moment I'm paying 45 € (two months) for a 20/5 Mbps and I don't think it is too much.

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However I have some friends that live in India and they always tell me " my connection is very bad, and we pay too much". As in almost all the Asian countries.

I've been to India multiple times, and I have never liked the broadband facilities there. A decent connection (512 Kbps, i.e 64 KBps) costs as much as $25 and the service is really bad. In my country, I pay half of that amount for a 50Mbps connection!!!!

While the telecom companies attack on net neutrality seems to have failed in the US, they still seem to be at it in other markets. In India, there has still lots of room for ambiguity.

Facebook has tied up with Reliance, one of the telecom service providers, to provide free access to Facebook, while other applications like Twitter will be charged. Airtel is planning to come up with its own version called "Airtel Zero". Vodafone is watching from the sidelines, ready to enter the market if required.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released a whitepaper on Net Neutrality and invited comments on the same. Unfortunately, it seems to have been authored by somebody from the telecom sector. 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Time-to-fight-for-net-neutrality-in-India/articleshow/46757178.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social/Fight-for-net-neutrality-unites-internet/articleshow/46896316.cms