PM wants to know the reason for slow internet speed in India

[mmadhankumar]

With increasing number of consumers complaining about the lack of broadband speeds despite operators promising the same, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has himself stepped in to address the issue.

The term broadband refers to high-speed Internet access that is generally faster than the traditional dial-up access. However, the delivery of broadband speeds in India is abysmally slow, and in most cases even half of what is promised by operators.

Operators, however, maintain that they provide more than Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai’s) prescribed quality parametres. “Operators offer whatever they prescribe, it is market dynamic that anyone not offering it will fall aside in this business,” said Rajan Mathews, director-general, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) — a body representing all operators except Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices.

Slow broadband speeds also pose a potential threat to the government’s Digital India mission — providing high-speed internet to every household and individual with a mobile device.

Modi took stock of the situation during a recent meeting with secretaries of various ministries, a source in the communications ministry said.

Modi has asked telecom secretary Rakesh Garg the reason behind the inability of operators to provide advertised internet speeds, and is scheduled to meet him on Tuesday to discuss the matter and progress on his Digital India push, the source added.

Garg is likely to ask for four weeks time to do the analysis and submit the finding to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

“A report based on a study to examine the reasons for slow broadband speeds had been prepared and submitted for approval. But after the meeting in the PMO, a further analysis is being undertaken to find out if the lack of spectrum was hampering speeds,” the source said.

Operators promise to offer speeds of 2mbps that allow customers to download a movie in as little as 20 minutes but actual services often run at less than 512kbps, the minimum for a connection to qualify as broadband as defined by Trai.

India has one of the largest internet user bases globally with 254 million users but only 75.73 million have broadband services.


PM wants to know the reason for slow internet speed in India

 

[shawl_who]

finally... some steps in d right direction :s

we are d biggest IT provider in d world, but having d slowest internet speeds accross Asia, even smaller countriies like taiwan, indonesia have avg. speeds faster than in India :wall

 

[sagar.patnaik]

Looks like PM read the new broadband standards declared by FCC. Recently the FCC in USA declared new standards raising the broadband definition from 4 Mbps to 25 Mbps :lol

 

[sas123]

Looks like PM read the new broadband standards declared by FCC. Recently the FCC in USA declared new standards raising the broadband definition from 4 Mbps to 25 Mbps :lol

Minimum broadband speed should be 100 Mbps in India.. What u guys think??

 

[sagar.patnaik]

finally... some steps in d right direction :s

we are d biggest IT provider in d world, but having d slowest internet speeds accross Asia, even smaller countriies like taiwan, indonesia have avg. speeds faster than in India :wall

Its easy to provide faster internet in small countries. They do not require heavy backhaul infrastructure. South Korea has 1 Gbps connectivity throughout and they are planning to raise it to 10 Gbps in near future. I think 50 Mbps is more than sufficient for anyone in todays environment. No server supports more than 30 Mbps download speed I read somewhere but Im not sure.

 

[sagar.patnaik]

Minimum broadband speed should be 100 Mbps in India.. What u guys think??

Tell me what will you do with 100 Mbps when u cannot download with more than 30 Mbps from any server :lol

 

[sas123]

Tell me what will you do with 100 Mbps when u cannot download with more than 30 Mbps from any server :lol

In 100 mbps speed we can download a full HD movie by idm in 10 minutes.:shy

 

[ssparikshya]

but 100 Mbps connection will also DL at 50 Mbps max that is = 6.2 MB/s tough max possible = 12.5 MB/s

 

[sas123]

but 100 Mbps connection will also DL at 50 Mbps max that is = 6.2 MB/s tough max possible = 12.5 MB/s

Government should make the law mandatory that every ISP should provide minimum speed of 30 Mbps. The usage should be unlimited and tariff should not be more than 1000 rs/month. :wall
Look at Google fiber. They are providing 1 Gbps of speed at the cost of 70$(approx 4328 Rs./month)

 

[ssparikshya]

you are expecting too much.