Rony wrote: > scrapo wrote: > >> Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: >> >> >> >>> Unlike Indian ISPs >>> which will shut you off if you exceed the limit. What MTNL and other >>> ISPs have done is, they've conned the Indian consumer. 200MB / month is >>> a freakin' joke. >>> >>> >>> >> yes, they are offering a plan for Rs. 200 (US$ 4 per month) which is a >> rate you will not find in USA. This is a plan that is meant for light >> home users, people who are only going to use it to check their emails >> once a day. the popularity of the scheme is because in India, people >> want small slice service. Its a very good move. And very practical. If >> you want more usage, take a better plan. Whats stopping you ? >> >> In office we are on an MTNL plan that gives us close to guaranteed 2 >> mbps speed which we need for our ERP connectivity and we are paying for >> that good quality bandwidth. There is a 45gb cap, but i know we are not >> going to use more than 15gb in a month except when a new Fedora version >> is put up. We are business users, and we do not go and download movies >> so we dont need 500gb downloads. >> >> > India is heavily populated and this excess demand drives the monopoly of > big players in the internet scene. While it is true that if we want more > download limit, we should pay more, the limits that are set do not do > justice to the amount that is collected by them from us. Once a cable is > laid to the home/office, and rent for the same is collected every month, > it does not matter how much data goes through it. Internet is nothing > but a mega network of machines. If international bandwidth is expensive, > at least local sites should be freely accessible with no traffic limit, > once the maximum speed per user is already preset. > that would be against the concept of net-neutrality. Also i suspect its difficult to distinguish which are indian sites. My company website is www.progresspartners.co.in but is hosted on an american server. Again, I am not sure if things have changed, but earlier, even to go to Indian sites, ISPs used to connect through USA as there was no interconnect between ISPs in India. > >>> But what have you lawyers done about it? >>> >>> >> My lawyer have not been put to that task. I vote with my wallet. I chose >> a service I want, and pay for it. If i am not happy with it, I switch to >> what options I have. The market will get them in line soon enough. >> Provided ofcouse the market actually wants such a thing. If you are the >> only person wanting 500gb transfer and wanting to pay Rs. 1000 per month >> for it, the vendors are not going to bother. >> >> > > As mentioned above, we are too large in numbers and if a few of us go > away, more will come in. However as more players step in to provide > competition, things will definitely improve and this change is already > taking place. > > > >
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