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Is Your Net Connection Painfully Slow?? Welcome To India!
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On one end there is talk of wireless connectivity and wimax being deployed in India by various players and one the other end comes a report that shall surely put a dampner on all those who are setting up web businesses and streaming movies thinking that an audience exists that has the time and patience to fight a painfully slow internet to access that content.
Not sure what im talking about? Well im refering to the recent report by Internettrafficreport.com which states that India had an overall index of 74 and a response time of 253 milliseconds. A higher Index indicates faster and more reliable connection while a response time refers to time taken for a packet of information to reach from one point to another.
Check the image below to see how India is ranked with respect to other countries..
According to Rajesh Chabbria President, Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) “Indian bandwidth providers have the infrastructure to offer capacity in terrabits but they are making available only a few gigabits. This has resulted in artificial change in the supply and demand equation.” He also stated in this businessline article that smaller isp’s are not able to afford higher bandwidth as its priced higher than what its is priced for its UK and US counterparts.
On the whole this report does paint a sorry picture for those basing their business models on Internet Usage numbers stated by IAMAI in its reports because now the questions arises how many of those supposedly internet users have a good enough internet connection? Also What is IAMAI doing to improve this situation given that its the representative body for the Indian Internet and Mobile Industry. I guess IAMAI needs to do more than just conduct events around India if anything has to improve for Internet players and for IAMAI to be taken as a serious body.
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the picture will be more grim if we look at tier 2, 3 cities.
even in a city like mumbai, there are pockets where u are at the mercy of your local cable operators for broad band connectivity (of course u can go for mtnl)
there is no service guarantee and broad band in india is still a sellers market.
Though I agree with you on the Speeds in India being slow and not upto the mark, even TRAI’s report also say the same. As well as correctly pointed out by SS in the above comment that if we go to the tier 2 and 3 cities it would be worse.
However, where India has a strategic advantage is in terms of Service. What I mean is in case when you have any breakdown of service the response to correct it is much better and faster in India than in US.
In US the service providers ask you to come to them at an appointed time and then they will assess the situation and based on that they will do anything. This can take you anywhere between 2 weeks to 2 months to get the final rectification.
However, in India, the service is restored much faster and the service people come to your doorstep within 3 working days if required.