Tag: Broadband

  • Broadband in India is Far from a Reality

    Being involved in Startup Saturday Delhi, I have come across a lot of entrepreneurs building Internet applications. Most of them being India centric. The problem, which has been discussed and reported numerous times is that broadband penetration is a miniscule 3% of the whole population. There are roughly 3 million broadband subscribers in India. India…

  • Dial-Up 2.0

    Most “broadband” providers in India offer a fairly low cost DSL product with top speeds of 256K. At 256K, you are limited to 400MB of downloads. If you go over 400MB, you will be charged per additional megabyte. Now the interesting thing, for unlimited downloading, the speed drops to 128K. Yup, I was pretty surprised…