Free Broadband in India by 2009
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkSunday, April 29, 2007
Indian government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. This has the potential to kill current telecom business model in India. As a consumer and internet based service provider, I whole-heartedly support this proposal.
Many cities in the US already have free wireless broadband connectivity for residents. The idea is to boost economic activity in general. The government of India plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal. Senior government officials expect to be able to achieve this goal spending only a portion of the corpus of the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).
Source: ET
I think this will tremendously boost eCommerce and eBusiness in India and truly make India Inc. global.
July 3, 2010: 1:26 am
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April 3, 2009: 7:13 pm
What? free broadband across India?..India? hahaha that’s a joke right? I mean just look at it this way- Many of us can barely afford food and clothing with shelter, beggars everywhere, One of the worst road conditions, one of the costliest countries in case of internet services, us 1$ = nearly 50rs!, can’t get any top notch products, nearly 70% of the population depending on agriculture and agriculture being able to get barely only 30% on the national income! and I can keep on writing these things!! I would really love to see this happen someday, with free broadband everywhere but I don’t think it’s anywhere near possibility in the near future. If the GOV really wants to develop this country I bet they should stop filling their own pockets and do something that really develops this country, like making sure almost everyone is properly employed or uncorrupted police service or maybe at lest stop luring people foe votes!! |
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January 28, 2009: 1:40 pm
Huumm, Cheers |
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January 7, 2009: 5:05 am
err…. its 2009 already and i dont see any changes! |
January 2, 2009: 2:31 pm
It is a kind of statement which should be heard from one ear and leave it from other… |
December 2, 2008: 12:33 am
[...] broadband is the way to future and I hope India will introduce it at some point of time, if not the next year, [...] |
October 30, 2007: 7:28 am
It sounds like a dream come true for INDIANS. But will it be available in towns and small cities all over India or in the Metro Cities only? what will be the coverage area? and will it be truely unlimited or there will any data exchange limit? |
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October 16, 2007: 11:49 am
Broadband is a high-speed way of connecting to the internet. it will be in 2008 not in 2009 |
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August 3, 2007: 6:52 am
Broadband is a high-speed way of connecting to the internet. |
April 30, 2007: 12:15 pm
I would personally provide a backup server with that kind of free bandwidth pooled together |
April 29, 2007: 5:43 pm
How the hell does it expect to be able to afford this? It will probably lead to a massive increase in bandwidth import costs. And what will this mean for businesses? Somebody will surely figure out a way to pool this free bandwidth and start selling web hosting off it. The Indian govt. will end up subsidising rich countries web hosting bills. |
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