Yesterday I read an interesting article in Mint (Nov 3, 2009) titled “Dialling up India’s growth” – Cellphone, Internet aur growth should be the development slogan for India this century. The article had few interesting statistics,
After reading that article I wanted to blog immediately but did not find the time. I wanted to say we need broadband speed but we really need to improve broadband penetration first. And lo, I do see a similar article written by Ajit Balakrishnan.
Currently, the cost of broadband in India is 260 times higher than in South Korea, while in China it is 65 times higher. South Korea offers the world’s cheapest broadband rates. The high cost prohibits many users from accessing Internet in India, he said, limiting usage to just checking emails.
I had written a few months back that unless we have a dedicated Minister for Internet one cannot expect to see exponential growth in the Internet user base.
In many parts of Bangalore broadband is STILL not available. First, this basic issue needs to be addressed, then comes the speed. I have just 256k connection at home, works fine for me.
Increase the penetration, reduces the broadband prices and we will see a cyber revolution in India.
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Yes. We need to speed up broadband penetration.
"CII says pervasive availability of broadband can add 65 million new jobs and $180 billion to Indian economy"...this is amazing.
I think in business front, today,companies and individuals are pretty comfortable with online transactions. That is why more sign ups are happening towards online banking, online matrimony, online payroll, online crm, social networks etc
Online transactions are commonly use nowadays, and because of that, speed of broadband and penetration greatly affects our way of social networking..