Re: Global broadband speeds

To inject some facts into this discussion, different sets of Indian bureaucrats are the leading lights on two different sides of a long running and vicious internet policy fight, funnily enough, on the governance issue. 

So you have the funny spectacle of GoI enthusiastically endorsing multistakeholderism at one meeting and multilateralism under the UN at another.  [And I did listen to a very interesting keynote by Kapil Sibal advocating multistakeholderism, at a conference late last year]

Coincidentally enough - I'm sending this through a 25 Mbps ACT broadband connection (fiber to a junction box and then last mile on ethernet) that costs me under Rs.1500 a month - I was paying a couple of hundred more for a 8 Mbps airtel DSL connection till a month or two back.

--srs (iPad)

> On 07-Mar-2014, at 12:11, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/
>>> 
>>> We all knew it was bad in India. But this bad?
>> 
>> Yes. And it is not merely the "4.4 Mbps" which is shock inducing. The
>> overall quality of service (provider, customer response, technical
>> expertise) is actually on a downswing across a large swathe of the
>> country for both domestic and commercial consumption.
>> 
>> Plus, I have serious doubts about the "UPLOAD 3.1Mbps" data point.
> 
> 
> If someone could photograph the internet; the Indian politicians would
> be glad to pose in front of it. Indian politicians are not
> anti-technology per se. They love to be photographed handing out
> tablets, and laptops to students, and inaugurating IT companies. It's
> just Internet access that seems to be a blind spot because there isn't
> enough voter education on it.
> 
>