[Report] Average Internet Speed in India is Reducing

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Number of internet connections in India are increasing but avg speed is decreasing:no:

For details, Read the report below:

Akamai’s report on the State of the Internet reveals some pretty interesting facts about the penetration, adoption and evolution of internet services in world. Internet adoption and usage in a country is an important statistic to gauge the state of ICT ( Information and Communication Technology in a country ).

Average Measured Connection Speed

India ranks 143 globally with an average connectivity speed of 0.8 Mbps in Q3 of 2010. India’s connectivity speeds took a hit with an overall decline and reflects in the negative QoQ ( quarter on quarter ) change. India’s QoQ change of Internet speed is -6.9%. The year on year change ( this quarter compared to this quarter last year) also took a downturn showing the decline in average connectivity speeds in India. The YoY change is recorded at -9.1%.

Average Peak Connection Speed

Average peak connection speed is average of the maximum measured speed at city level. India ranks 135 globally in terms of global average peak connection speed globally. The average peak connection speed measured in India was 5.1 Mbps in Q4 of ‘10. While the QoQ was -0.4%, the YoY change was calculated as 13%.
High Broadband Connectivity

India ranks 80th globally for high broadband connectivity with 0.4% connections measured to have a speed in excess of 5Mbps. India’s comparison to itself in its previous quarter and previous year suggest a big decline in high broadband connectivity. The QoQ change is calculated at -18% and the YoY is -30%.

Broadband connectivity

Broadband connectivity measures the increase in number of broadband connections. India ranks 129th in the report globally. The adoption of broadband internet has been rather disappointing. India has only 4.5% internet connections above 2Mbps. The QoQ change and YoY change too were unimpressive at -17% and -24% respectively.

Slow adoption of broadband services in India will hamper businesses that depend on high internet broadband consumption , like digital media providers and such.
Narrowband connectivity

India has a high rate of narrowband consumption according to the report. India ranks 43 globally with 35% of its internet connections below 256Kbps. the QoQ change was calculated at 5.9% while the YoY change, a strong 39%. This suggests that although the internet connectivity speeds are not high, internet adoption is growing.
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Report: State of Internet Connectivity in India [Decline in Average Connection Speed]
 
For me speed and data both reduced.

I had 320kbps real UL wired BB until last year and now I have sucky GPRS 2GB FUP mobile net .....:(
 
Well these private companies have surely formed a cartel and are also bribing government companies like BSNL/MTNL for sure too. I think things might just keep getting worse.
 
baccilus said:
Well these private companies have surely formed a cartel and are also bribing government companies like BSNL/MTNL for sure too. I think things might just keep getting worse.
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However that idea might sound to others, I agree with your view.. :( this is the case with all private players, in all spheres and not just telecom...

bad for us consumers but good money for the companies...
 
i am sure like piracy if something like that happens in telecom we may start to get better vfm services but i dont think people will get involved in it.
 
in our state mizoram not just our speed has been reduced our ip has been reset randomly and we cant even play online games properly
 
I had 4Mbps night 12-8 unlimited and 5GB per month day time usage for past 2 years, and used to download about 300~400GB per month. Now im stuck with the 725 Kbps UL connection with which i can do only less than half of that a month.:(
 
agantuk said:
And Airtel with its ridiculous FUP has been a pioneer in causing this decrease
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not only that but cheating with customers!!! :|

according to them they by-mistake cut my speed into half for night time for more than a week. after taking to there head for 2 days they changed it back!!! :X
 
the huge losses these telecom cos incur from telecom business( after all we have the cheapest mobile calls) is the one of the most primary reason behind absurd pricing of bb in india.. they manage to reduce the loss and gain profits from bb side..
 
deep16 said:
the huge losses these telecom cos incur from telecom business( after all we have the cheapest mobile calls) is the one of the most primary reason behind absurd pricing of bb in india.. they manage to reduce the loss and gain profits from bb side..
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And how do you know that they incur losses??? :/
 
^exactly, people today have more than one active mobile connection. So even if the calling rates may be low, the volume of calls made covers up that angle.
Also one of the primary reasons of cheap call rates is that most of the old operators have got their spectrum for free(additional spectrum). And the new entrant made huge profits by selling their spectrum by means of mergers @4 to 5 times the spectrum purchase rates.(this being the reason which highlighted the 2g scam.)
 
overall airtel and other private operators and their fup is main reason for all this and as far as airtel is concern what their annual report says they just have 1 % growth in broadband and landline yoy basis so not much they have in this
 
Many countries developing new infrastructure and at the same time india is doing shit. We should start trying to provide 1gbps connection for all houses as if plan is proposed now it won't be implemented till 2015 and by then I reckon that speed would be average for the world.

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Aman27deep said:
Many countries developing new infrastructure and at the same time india is doing shit. We should start trying to provide 1gbps connection for all houses as if plan is proposed now it won't be implemented till 2015 and by then I reckon that speed would be average for the world.

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i have no dobut that in few yrs we met get 1gbps but i am sure and confident that fup for 1gbps will be 15gb after that 256kbps
 
Reading all your comments makes me sad panda :( :(

India could really become the next IT innovation hub(not just outsourcing hub) but basic infrastructural flaws like lack of high speed broadband,24hour power are problems that govt needs to solve at macro level. Untill then, what a pity of state of affairs!
 
Gaurish said:
Reading all your comments makes me sad panda :( :(

India could really become the next IT innovation hub(not just outsourcing hub) but basic infrastructural flaws like lack of high speed broadband,24hour power are problems that govt needs to solve at macro level. Untill then, what a pity of state of affairs!
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cant resolve till pvt operator make cartel and give same plans where no one have choice and no one is bothered lol
 
and companies clam that till 2012 every village in INDIA will have a bb high speed. :@

aare pelhle hame to high speed bb provide karo.

if we can't afford it in the city ?
then what will the villager do :@

:P
 
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? :S
 
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