Archive for the ‘broadband’ Category
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
One of the most whinned topic in the Internet industry in India is its 'penetration'. I have mentioned in several posts of my blog that many localities in Bangalore don't have wired broadband service. The service of USB data cards are just about ok, I use it only if I ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
In general I feel we don't have easy access to useful data in India yet, especially for the internet segment. But we have come a long way though. Medianama, IMRB, BusinessWorld books have been doing an exception job in releasing research reports.
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
The latest report from IMRB "Digital Divide to Digital Dividend" is about the increased broadband penetration in rural India. While many question terming 256K as "broadband", I personally am comfortable calling 256K as broadband internet in India. We can't compare ourselves with the western world where home users have 6MB ...
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Friday, April 8th, 2011
Most 'unlimited' broadband plans today in India have incorporated 'fair usage limit'. Even though I have an unlimited data transfer on my Airtel broadband, the speed reduces to 256K the moment the usage crosses 10 GB. With a teenager at home hitting the 10 GB is not at all difficult, ...
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The broadband figures are of great interest to the internet publishers community in India. We at Oneindia, study it to get a feel of how the internet is reaching the masses because we are in the Indian language space.
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