All major ISP's now may be forced to upgrade their speeds.

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CIOL : News : Broadband: 2 Mbps

BANGALORE: The government has asked all State-owned and private ISPs to provide 2Mbps bandwidth as
broadband to residential subscribers for the existing price.

The old 256 kbps plan are to be replaced by 2 Mbps plan for homes at same price with effect from January 1,
2007.

Along with MTNL and BSNL, You Telecom is the only private operator who has announced the 2Mbps plan, a
You Telecom statement said.

Commenting on the new development EVS Chakravarthy, CEO, You Telecom India Pvt. Ltd, said, “This might
change the course of broadband penetration in the country. With this kind of bandwidth to homes, value added services such as Broadband gaming, VoIP, online music and streaming Video and others will see substantial growth as subscribers will begin to enjoy internet experience. New Year has started on a good note for the
Internet/Broadband industry."

The Citigroup Venture Capital International owned Broadband service provider has the necessary infrastructure and technology to provide 2Mbps bandwidth to its customers. YOU Telecom’s Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) cable facilitates class service to its customers. The cable network has been put together by partnering with companies of the likes of Motorola, Avaya, Commscope and Cisco.
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How much time it takes for them to respond is just what matters now.

The least we can do is occasionaly call up our ISP's and compare them to 2mbps speeds from MTNL/BSNL and ask why its taking them so long. :P
 
Ofcourse. Its useless to pretty much everybody if the plans are capped.

Heck we aren't even asking for 2mbps, just a 512-1mbps unlm would carry us through 2007 :P
 
Heard that tata indicom will be launching 1Mbps service next month.said that will improve speeds in 256 unlimited connection .
 
I'd be happy with 512kbps up/downstream + unlimited usage, and I'm sure Airtel will have such a plan :)
 
TataIndicom will Renew there Plans On 13.01.07.thats wat the Website Site says.keeping Fingers Crossed ... hope They can Give 512 UL @ a Decent Price
 
vinyas said:
TataIndicom will Renew there Plans On 13.01.07.thats wat the Website Site says.keeping Fingers Crossed ... hope They can Give 512 UL @ a Decent Price
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What! Where! OMG I hope this is true! :D I'm on tata 128 unlimited. Surely hoping for a speed upgrade :D
 
hey any IQara/YOU users here?

Im on the night angel plan and any news of the proposed upgrade to the above plan?

PS:Im presently outta town so don't know whether you users are getting the speeds or not...
 
i dnt know if govt .can force sify to upgrade their speeds cauz SIFY ppl dnt consider 64\128 as broadband but still run it under broadband scheme...

currently i am happy even on a 64 unlimited connection cau during night time and early morning time..my net download speeds goes anywhere between 155 kbps-250 kbps ..almost every nite !!!
 
faheem_m said:
i dnt know if govt .can force sify to upgrade their speeds cauz SIFY ppl dnt consider 64\128 as broadband but still run it under broadband scheme...

currently i am happy even on a 64 unlimited connection cau during night time and early morning time..my net download speeds goes anywhere between 155 kbps-250 kbps ..almost every nite !!!
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Sify is still living ?!

One rotten apple spoils the whole lot :P

I hope ISP's would hear our plea about considering 512kbps unlm instead of 2-100mbps on 4gb caps. :ashamed:
 
zhopudey said:
What! Where! OMG I hope this is true! :D I'm on tata 128 unlimited. Surely hoping for a speed upgrade :D
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Yep! Me too! :D

Are you on Postpaid or prepaid Zhops?
 
What I have heard from Hathway is that they have a pre-paid plan with 512kbps speed. But the catch is the download limit of 3gb for 3 months. Usage from 11pm to 9am next day is not counted.

Currently they have no plans of offering a flat unlimited usage plan apart from the existing 256kbps ones.
 
Most ISPs have upto 2Mbps connections but its usless if they are not providing unlimted usage.

A 256Kbps conn is also more than enuf if its unlimited and for 500Rs.

Dont mind paying 700Rs for a 512Kbps unlimted connection.

This shud be the ideal plan.

256Kbps - 500Rs - UL

512Kbps - 700Rs - UL

They shud consider reducing the costs if they want boradband to be more widespread and if they want to

increase there customer base.

My friends are using 10Mbps in US and laughing at me :(
 
Quad Master said:
Most ISPs have upto 2Mbps connections but its usless if they are not providing unlimted usage.

A 256Kbps conn is also more than enuf if its unlimited and for 500Rs.

Dont mind paying 700Rs for a 512Kbps unlimted connection.

This shud be the ideal plan.
256Kbps - 500Rs - UL
512Kbps - 700Rs - UL

They shud consider reducing the costs if they want boradband to be more widespread and if they want to
increase there customer base.
My friends are using 10Mbps in US and laughing at me :(
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Cmon yaar....that is unrealistic for now...maybe another year later....

As of now, 1K for 512kbps would be realistic.
 
Vince said:
Yep! Me too! :D

Are you on Postpaid or prepaid Zhops?
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errr....wats the difference? :ashamed:

BTW, I'm not too greedy. Don't want an unlimited plan. I'll settle for a limit of 30gb/month :P
 
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