Telcos should give promised minimum speed for 80% of time

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New TRAI rule:
Telecom operators offering mobile Internet services have to ensure that the minimum download speed specified in their data plans is available to subscribers for not less than 80 per cent of usage time from August 23.

"Every service provider shall, in all its wireless (mobile and dongle) data plans, indicate the minimum download speed available to the consumers," as per latest amendment by TRAI in standards of Quality of Service for Wireless Data Services Regulations.

As per the amendment issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, every service provider will have to ensure that minimum download speed published by them in plan or recharge coupons should be delivered to consumers at least for 80 per cent of the "usage time".

The new regulation will come in force from August 23.

Telecom operators have reported to TRAI that minimum download speed delivered on their most high speed 3G service is in the range of 399 kbps (less than minimum broadband speed is 512 kbps) to 2.48 mbps.

The regulator had shared its view earlier that minimum download speed for 3G and CDMA EVDO service should be 1 megabit per second with 95 per cent success rate.

For GSM and CDMA 2G, the minimum speed should be at 56 kilobit per second and for CDMA high speed data it is 512 kbps. The amendment, however, does not mention specific minimum speed.

TRAI has notified that minimum broadband speed should be 512 kilobit per second. 3G is generally considered as wireless broadband service.
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Finally. Most of the time I get 2g speeds of less than 10 Kbps even though I've got a 3g plan. Internet in India sucks. :(

News source: profit.ndtv.com/news/industries/article-telcos-must-deliver-promised-web-speed-for-80-usage-time-594674
 
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IIRC, this type of rule was already in place. Practical Speed should be 80% of connection speed mentioned/offer. Now this is covering time aspect too. There should be some minimum limit to 3G speeds too.
 
Ever since this notification came out, I'm seeing increased speeds on my Vodafone connection. First I used to get ~10-12Kbps Max the whole day on 2G. 3G never got connected inside the house. Now, I routinely get around ~30-60Kbps speeds on 2G. And I also got connected to 3G inside house but for very less time. Like just few minutes.
Seems these mobile providers must have over sold the bandwidth a few times over, just like the landline broadband ISP's do.
 
Spoke to an Airtel tech who had come to my office. The minimum speed for a 3G connection is 1.2 Mbps according to their service standards...
 
How do you even enforce this sort of a law. Half the time my 2g doesnt work. After reconnecting 2-3times it moves like a turtle. And its not just one company, leaving out a few pockets of areas, mobile data in India is a joke. All companies suck.
 
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If TRAI puts penalties or threatens to cancel 2G/3G license (they can't do that I know), the mobile service providers will fall in line. Any company hates loosing money.
 
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If TRAI puts penalties or threatens to cancel 2G/3G license (they can't do that I know), the mobile service providers will fall in line. Any company hates loosing money.
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If the signal strength is very low, the data speed will be low as well. I have seen that when signal is bad (strength more than -85 dBm), time taken to load pages rises appreciably.
So if the companies have to guarantee speed, they will have to improve theit tower network as well. And as we all know, the telecom companies are bleeding massively. It is very unlikely that they will be able to improve their network.
 
They shouldn't have bought the spectrum at those stupidly inflated prices. I mean, thousands of crores for some spectrum of a few MHz? They won't get ROI on that in even 10 yrs. Our government is so stupid imo. All those scams in spectrum allocations etc.
 
After they have invested so heavily in infrastructure and employees, it was very unlikely that the big players would not buy the spectrum. The person at the CAG who came up with the lakh of crores of rupees lost in 2G scam report needs to be given a nobel in economics.

Good connectivity forms the backbone of the country. If the govt. could have had been a little less greedy and the 2G scamsters been less greedy, we would have had been in a much better position.

I am not saying that 2G scam was good. I am only saying that the reserve prices for the spectrum auction was exorbitant.
 
To be honest no one knows where the Telecom bandwagon is heading. ISP / government / consumers. It is just rolling and tons of money is being poured into infrastructure, devices, bandwidth. The government is reaping (it thinks so), and ISPs, want to milk the cow ---> burden on users. Bad practices are rampant, and CC is a mere two worded euphemism, to plunder and mock the end-users. It is sad. There is no master plan and/or holistic over view of all this.
 
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We have laws/rules for everything, most of them decent. The problem - no regulator, & if there is one, that regulator does not have infrastructure to even monitor, let alone penalize the erring parties, ex. SEBI, TRAI etc.
 
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