It is interesting to note the flurry of activity happening in Chennai (and probably elsewhere in India) on the broadband front. Several companies (many of them unheard of until a couple of days back) are promising to bring "high speed Internet" to one's doorstep. There are some established players as well jumping in - such as Reliance Infocomm (which has finally decided to offer broadband after laying the foundation for this more than a year back) and BSNL (the babu driven telecom behemoth sponsored by the Indian Government).
This is all very good and commendable. But most of their "packages" seem to have been crafted at a time when Lynx was state of the art - "Rs 200 per month for 100MB of data transfer at an incredible speed of 256kbps!" claims a flyer. I'm wondering how long it would take for one to use up this 100MB of promised utopia...
Give me a minimum of 512kbps (preferably 1mbps or more), no data traffic cap, for Rs 999 per month and then I would buy the mantra of taking broadband to the masses.
By the way, I recently switched (yet again) my broadband provider. I now have Touchtel that provides me a 128kbps line with no bandwidth cap for Rs 999 per month. This is good but not good enough. The advantage with the Touchtel line is that it just works and I have had absolutely no downtime. Perhaps the competition will force Touchtel to upgrade the 128kbps to 512kbps across the board.
Watch this space.
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