Comments on: Your Broadband connection unlimited or not?

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:02:49 +0000

Who are these ISP’s you’re referring to that charge Rs 50 / GB

By: The Wandering Hermit

The Wandering Hermit — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:44:36 +0000

Nicely done..

I agree these data caps are insane and also Reliance Connection speeds vary from place to place for example if you are in C tier city and purchase a reliance broadband plus the speeds you get are just marginally better than cable connections.. Its very irritating to listen to them carp about breakneck speeds but as always advertising and reality have an ocean in between them which can’t be ever bridged,
cheers

By: Ranjit

Ranjit — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:58:09 +0000

Thanks Mathew for your informed comment, I did not know that indian ISP’s are charging Rs 50 per GB for interconnects if so its insanely high, no wonder hosting in India is so expensive.

I sincerely hope that Indian ISP’s reduce this fee to a beer playing level so that everyone can benefit.

I think so your average of 43 GB/month calculation is for corporate customers coz I don’t think home users consume on a average that many GB / month but may be I am wrong, again I think for most of the users most of the time use international sites.

I do hope fellow readers will post their comments, BTW Mathew feel free to mail me.

Cheers,
Ranjit

By: Mathew Carley

Mathew Carley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:55:30 +0000

What I think you are missing is that ISPs are charge Rs. 50/GB at NIXI to peer with other ISPs – and this is bandwidth that doesn’t even leave the country. By contrast, International Bandwidth is unmetered.

I’m building a high-speed, high-capacity ISP now (Mumbai only, at the moment) – we plan to offer from 1Mbps with 10GB data up to 40Mbps with 400GB of data/month. I would really like to do fully unlimited plans, but the Rs. 50/GB makes it cost-prohibitive.

Plenty of independent ISPs find this painful (notably Hathway), but sadly there isn’t too much we can do about it yet.

Personally, I’ve been trying to convince the organization to abolish per GB rates in order to free up the Indian internet, but so far they’ve only promised that “soon the prices will be reduced”… I hope it’s a big reduction!

On the flip-side, having moved here from Europe recently, I can’t be 100% sure of the average users usage model at this point – I’m planning for my users to use about 43GB/month (averaged over all plans, which means the plans with a 10GB allowance are theoretically getting less bang-for-their-buck than those with the 400GB allowance, but the variables involved make the math rather complicated)…

Perhaps you and I could start a dialogue regarding what would be best to introduce in to the Indian Market.