On 01/16/2012 08:26 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > On 16 January 2012 17:18, Nishit Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can we rather focus on the real question: what is the utility of Ubuntu TV >> in India, when we cannot get a majority of legal online content downloads, >> and broadband speeds continue to suck? > Let us take those questions in reverse order: > > 1. Broadband speeds continue to suck because every provider has to > make a huge capital investment to build the infrastructure from > scratch. That investment adds to the cost he has to recover from the > customers of his service. This is a massive wastage - and it is not > just in telecom, but in a lot of other areas in India where the PSU > behemoths don't share infrastructure and resources with upcoming > private players.
The infrastructure is in place. The tap can be twisted full open to give full free flow but there is no will to do so. Internet optic fibres via international undersea links may be expensive but India itself is a sub-continent that has enough space for its own clouds to rain information technology on its people. MTNL and BSNL have been sitting on gold mines but who cares. -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
