Paper on broadband argues for flat un-metered connections

[vishalrao]

See http://www.ashwin.name/papers/bb-india.pdf

The way ISPs operate in India is also a reason for high
bandwidth prices. ISPs act as bandwidth resellers rather than
network operators [7]. No effort is made to peer with other
networks, reach out to content owners or optimize network
operations. The network is designed hierarchically for the ISP
alone – no gateway traffic with other providers is assumed at
the beginning, and as the inter-provider traffic (peering)
increases, the pricing for the same rises near exponentially.

Growth of Internet in India has been impeded because of
high prices, a flawed pricing model and weak demand for
Internet related services. Artificial shortage of international
bandwidth, poor network operations, and difficulties with the
last mile have lead to high cost of bandwidth in India despite a
decent metro and core networking infrastructure. The usage
based pricing model has not allowed content or demand to
grow. Localized content is unavailable resulting in low
demand for Internet connectivity by retail customers. Hence,
we have a scenario where the growth of Internet in general and
broadband in particular has slowed down. Unbundling the
international cables, better peering by ISPs, and competition
through regulation will decrease the price of bandwidth in
India propelling the much needed increase in broadband
demand. Employing the flat-rate pricing model will increase
demand for content and services. These steps will enable
acceptance of the Internet to grow at rapid rate in India.

(This post found on a mailing list posted by Tarun Dua…)

[m0h1t]

I hope this wakes up are sleeping ISP’s..

and who is tarun dua?

[vishalrao]

Actually I’m not sure myself! Some links on Tarun Dua - calls himself a “Web 2.0 consultant”:

Tarun Dua: Nothing you ever wanted to know about Tarun Dua | Tarun Dua

The paper itself is a good read Not a regular “article” or “blog post” it feels like a proper “paper” in an academic sense with proper references at the end - after all it’s written by IIT-ians (at least one currently at MIT) - and has some interesting facts and figures.

One of the writer’s profiles: Vita - Ashwin Gumaste

His blog: Ashwin (ashwing@ieee.org)

The post: Ashwin (ashwing@ieee.org): Broadband in India: Sparse and Farce

[m0h1t]

Yea, its very well written, quite impressive.
I really hope TRAI officials get to read it and wish that they do something about it..

Tarun Dua has worked for a variety of small and large companies including Yahoo!, Mixercast.com (as founding member), Valuefirst ( largest SMS transport provider in India ), Globallogic, Fidelia etc in various positions. These days he mostly works on scalability, backend infrastructure and operations for large scale web facing platforms.

[chang143u]

india shall remain an undeveloped country with no room to succeed

[Hacker]

@chang143u

india shall remain an undeveloped country with no room to succeed

Then why dont you do something about it.

[DigitalDude]

@chang143u

india shall remain an undeveloped country with no room to succeed

myth

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[vishalrao]

thought i would bump this thread as a refresher about that paper on broadband…

[Gurpartap_Singh]

tarun dua hmmmm tarun dua. can’t remember but i think i know him. but this isn’t the topic eh. cheers for unmetered bandwidth debates.

[vishalrao]

yup, note that tarun dua did NOT write that paper, he just blogged/linked it. it was some other good peoples if you read the PDF