On 24/09/05 22:44 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 24 September 2005 16:28, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Look at Sweden/Norway/Japan/HK instead.
For what? I already quoted Sweden and Netherlands...
Oh, Norway, Japan and HK are a bit cheaper.
If you want to see any real improvements, you will have to bypass the telecom operators.
Whys that? How are the telcos hurdles in this? What about providers like 7star / Reliance Powersurfer which have ethernet networks?
Because the telcos have vested interest in selling their service at maximum cost, even if it doesn't increase the size of the pie. Decent competition helps.
Oh, bandwidth prices are fairly low. They just don't want to provide end users with low cost bandwidth, because a lot of people would move away from dedicated circuits (or would demand and enforce SLAs at the same price).
Exactly how low are they? Where will I get more info on how an ISP operates? Are the prices of international bandwidth available freely over the internet?? Google didn't help much.
You could see the BSNL and VSNL web pages, or contact them and ask. TRAI also set maximum caps on prices from time to time.
Feel free to get a few hundred/thousand of your neighbours together and start off a community ISP.
Yeah. I wish. But unfortunately people are too ignorant and lazy to actually invest their time / money / effort in such a project...
I will wait for you to actually try. I did. Turns out people were far more interested in TV.
Devdas Bhagat