Archive for the ‘broadband’ Category

Internet Penetration in India: Wireless broadband will help, but where is the power?

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 ...

Broadband statistics in India for 2010

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.

Rural Internet usage on rise in India, will this help language usage?

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 ...

Bandwidth Usage: Fair usage policy

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, ...

11 million broadband subscribers in India: Nov 2010

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.