Re: why strict Net neutrality works best: simple beats complex

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Wireline data has increased in bandwidth and decreased in cost at a fairly
> rapid clip.
>
> Still fairly expensive but I can get 40 Mbps for Rs. 1300 - about $20 a
> month.   And 100 Mbps for less than double that amount.
>
> In the mid 90s I’d have paid all that for 40 Kbps.
>
> —srs
>
> On 20-May-2015, at 1:19 pm, Abhijit Gadgil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It certainly is true for wireless data, but I don't think it's true
> for wireline data. I believe wireline data is way to expensive here in
> India. And argument that I heard in the past was - this is because
> we've to pay for very expensive International bandwidth and hence the
> cost, but at the moment - I believe most of the data a 'consumer' is
> likely to consume - would be quite local here in India (that's just a
> hunch though), Akamai is here , Youtube is here, that should take care
> of most of the data anyways. So not sure why the cost is so high for
> wireline data?
>
>



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