India are to Offer Free Broadband to all its Citizens by 2009

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The Speed is reported to be around the 2 MBpS mark .. which although by 2009 may appear paltry should be sufficient for most light users.

I hope Other governments follow the path placed by India and expand the impact of the information revolution in a similar manner.

NEW DELHI: The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it.

You have heard of free municipal broadband — many cities in the US have drenched themselves in wireless broadband connectivity which is freely accessible to residents. The idea is to boost economic activity in general. The government of India plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal. Senior government officials expect to be able to achieve this goal spending only a portion of the corpus of the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).
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|Source :: India Times|
 
Man i see this kinda crap and i just get exremely boiled over. India of all places with nationwide broadband access, yet i have to have either dial up or satelite? THIS IS AMERICA!! Whats up with that crap? I should be rockin Fios or somethin, not dial up. Yet they are getting free 2meg? BS is all i have to say.
 
name='PP Mguire' said:
Man i see this kinda crap and i just get exremely boiled over. India of all places with nationwide broadband access, yet i have to have either dial up or satelite? THIS IS AMERICA!! Whats up with that crap? I should be rockin Fios or somethin, not dial up. Yet they are getting free 2meg? BS is all i have to say.
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well its not really, i think i read a while back that india is becoming one of richest countries and america is sliding downwards.
 
name='PP Mguire' said:
Man i see this kinda crap and i just get exremely boiled over. India of all places with nationwide broadband access, yet i have to have either dial up or satelite? THIS IS AMERICA!! Whats up with that crap? I should be rockin Fios or somethin, not dial up. Yet they are getting free 2meg? BS is all i have to say.
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Be happy with what you have. You have a nice house, clean water, and food. That's all you need.
 
well its not really, i think i read a while back that india is becoming one of richest countries and america is sliding downwards.
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Be happy with what you have. You have a nice house, clean water, and food. That's all you need.
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A little contradictory here, but it just proves that what 9/11 was set out to do is really working. The economy of this country is failing bad. Its either that, or we just seriously need to hurry up and get a new president.
 
Tbf, Maybe the reason u are on dial up is because u live in a remote'ish area.. people in remote areas of india will also be stuck with poor if any connection.. At the end of the day you do have great living conditions. And a safe place to stay. If your that bothered about internet, move?? No insults meant just saying what i think :D
 
Tbf, Maybe the reason u are on dial up is because u live in a remote'ish area.. people in remote areas of india will also be stuck with poor if any connection.. At the end of the day you do have great living conditions. And a safe place to stay. If your that bothered about internet, move?? No insults meant just saying what i think
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Well its a case of all around us has cable/DSL or some other version of a better connection. Yet becasue of the school district here we are stuck with no broadband connection. And trust me, we want to get out of this hell hole but we cant
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gold bricks and move either.
 
name='PP Mguire' said:
A little contradictory here, but it just proves that what 9/11 was set out to do is really working. The economy of this country is failing bad. Its either that, or we just seriously need to hurry up and get a new president.
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Lol !!!! 9/11 had NOTHING to do with this. The reason India is booming ( as well as China , N/S Korea among other countries ) is that they are working harder to improve their economy , not to mention they are not waging a war with the world or playing world police. There is a saying " Charity begins at home " . This country should actually pay attention to improving itself before it goes around telling everyone how they should lead their lives.
 
name='|3ourne' said:
Lol !!!! 9/11 had NOTHING to do with this. The reason India is booming ( as well as China , N/S Korea among other countries ) is that they are working harder to improve their economy , not to mention they are not waging a war with the world or playing world police. There is a saying " Charity begins at home " . This country should actually pay attention to improving itself before it goes around telling everyone how they should lead their lives.
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QFT
 
Lol !!!! 9/11 had NOTHING to do with this. The reason India is booming ( as well as China , N/S Korea among other countries ) is that they are working harder to improve their economy , not to mention they are not waging a war with the world or playing world police. There is a saying " Charity begins at home " . This country should actually pay attention to improving itself before it goes around telling everyone how they should lead their lives.
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Read what i had to say before you say soemthing please. I was talking about the economy of this country, not India.
 
Its all a question of comparisons. All these reportedly booming nations, as described, have only recently had doods come back from them who`ve shown how the likes of China & N.Korea have large portions of their population living in condition akin to those movies B.Geldof would show u of Africa, where they cba. Disease squaller etc.

Heck there are areas in Wales where u cant get broadband, or even mobile phone setup. Just like the US, these areas are vetted by companies in terms of how many people actually live there to pay bills to make it viable. Often if u are set on living in these remote areas, u can usually pay the companies construction costs to get the services to u - u have to have some fair disposable cash to do this mind u.
 
The worst part is the majority that have computers here can afford cable. Long story short, scool district is keeping the service out of here.
 
Eh kinda. The school is greedy and wants alot of money, but yet they keep the services out so that way there we dont get flooded with ppl. Dosent make alot of sense actualy. My GOV teacher was in the city counel and he told me alot of what was going on. Its mostly the old people that have ties with the school board that are keeping it all out. Hard to explain to my town is being worked right now.
 
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