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Yes but the crucial difference here is that Fivenet is a licensed operator. But they don't own the infrastructure they use, either - that belongs to the cablewalas. I may be oversimplifying it here, but effectively the cablewalas themselves are not offering a service, they are merely the...

That's got to be annoying. Although we don't have any services that are only 1mbit/s, depending on your data usage, either our data plans or wireless plans might work for you. We've got plans from 5GB for 299 to 30GB for 649 including tax on Wireless and data plans starting at Rs550 including...

To have significant coverage in those cities, maybe less for a pilot - it's very difficult to say.

Infrastructure is going in in Mumbai (as it has been for some time), and more recently Pune and NCR (fortunately building infrastructure doesn't require the same kind of licensing as actually operating the service). Other cities will be after Mumbai subject to quite a number of conditions...

Yeah I saw that, but 20p/MB = Rs204.8 (round that to 205) which is still ~Rs200 more than they pay for it :D ...not to mention that for them 1GB of usage is inclusive of both download and upload (we count download and upload separately).

That applies to Airtel, but no-one else, really. I mean, I can't justify Rs500/GB (MTNL, BSNL and others). Rs50, maybe (and even that is extreme), but 500? No. Solution: Don't buy Africa. Or at least make the African consumers pay for it, for crying out loud, they're availing services in their...

Was. But geez, took long enough to moderate the posts. I wrote those days ago. To what end? Gotta have a purpose, you see, otherwise the crowd's chant would be something like: 1. What do we want? 2. Something! 1. When do we want it? 2. Some time in the not too distant future, if it's not...

I agree. As I'm currently sitting outside India waiting to come back to my adoptive home, I get to sit here saying "WTF" about the broadband situation. Especially since even I've managed to get wholesale pricing sufficiently low to know that, especially the big 3, SEEM to be ripping customers...

I've just tried to post several replies here but they have not worked? Damn.

I thought it was Kuwait. Or maybe Bahrain is doing now also?

Actually Constanta, Romania has overtaken Umea, Sweden as the fastest city in Europe. Having been to Romania, I can tell you that some of it's infrastructure is surprisingly modern, however the rest of it... not so much.

If by "community hubs" you mean like a LAN, there's going to need to be some regulatory and legal changes first - under most of the acts relating to telecommunications in India, if you operate a network without a license, you're in trouble (well, in theory... guess it depends how zealous the...

You're forgetting about the other government fiber networks, including Railtel and Gailtel. It could work - in theory - if all of these government fiber optic networks were consolidated and cleaned up, and only ONE company was put in charge of wholesaling the capacity to providers - right to...

It looks like you've been reading my posts about LLU and everything else, but the only problem is that the infrastructure would need some serious tidying up for that to happen - it would probably be cheaper and more effective for the government to start from scratch.

First is Mumbai. Following almost immediately are Pune and Delhi. Unfortunately that's long been a problem to do with me personally. It will be. Sadly it's too expensive to do that properly at the moment based on all the costs, especially in the price range most people would want it at...