[Report] Average Internet Speed in India is Reducing

[delguy19]

@Ethan_Hunt

It’s with the advent of FUP, that the ISPs have now handicapped broadband in India. Airtel being the one to march forward with this torch. A lot of my friends, including myself, have booted them out. It’s a shame our Telecom regulations authority feels 256Kbps is still the base for a “broadband” Internet connection. This is the biggest piece of horse dump decision taken by them. With such a narrow definition of broadband in this country, Airtel and other private operators can easily get away with applying FUP and limiting our connections to 256Kbps, which satisfies the “minimum” criteria. No wonder speed is reducing in India. With every ISP offering (read: advertising) 8Mbps+ speeds and then applying a fair usage to not utilize the speed in a proper manner, I’m confused what are we actually paying for? 8Mbps or 256Kbps?

1 thing can save users like us is if minimum broadband speed increase from 256kbps to somewhat respectable 1mbps or so

[vivek.krishnan]

Also found out that Hathway has a FUP on their UL plans, where speed gets capped to 1/4th speed of original plan. Also their plans are damn useless and quite difficult to understand. And the original inventors of FUP are those from the US or Europe. They ought to get hammered.

Luckily, this does not apply to me as my ISP has no FUP :-). But am not getting my hopes too high, anything is possible.

As regards to the internet in villages plan, the govt usually subsides the plan heavily. But i think that it might just turn out to be another scam.

Also what next? Maybe overage charges in our mobile bills…

These are growth inhibitors and must be stopped.