Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month

leoaugust writes "The State Govt of Andhra Pradesh in India, has awarded a contract for a fiber-optics based network to a consortium led by Aksh of India that aims to charge just Rs 100 (around US $2.30) a month for a domestic broadband connection. The project will provide services with a minimum bandwidth of 2Mbps. The execution of the project is scheduled to begin in April 2005 and will be completed by December 2006. The strength of the consortium is evident by the participation of top-notch Indian corporations which include Railtel Corporation India Limited, Tata Indicom, VSNL Limited, INcable Network (Andhra) Limited, Spectranet Limited and Nuziveedu Seeds Limited."

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It's mainly because the article is shit

[Polarism]

my opinion anyway.

It's not the size of the pipe, it's how you use it

[IndiJ]

The network will also enable the rural folk to access video-conferencing

One wonders what the average Indian hillbilly would need video-conferencing for.

No one has mentioned it so I thought I should, but the thought having this much bandwidth for this little money available in villages in India is probably giving pirates wet dreams. I'm not familiar with how much pirated software/media or spam comes out of Andhra Pradesh (or all of India for that matter), or with how the authorities deal with it, but I'd be willing to bet no one will be jumping to honour a US court order based on a copyright violation.

On the other hand maybe good will come out of it all. Maybe the spam czars and pirate groups will organize a program where they provide computers with internet access to schools and local businesses in exchange for allowing them to set up a porn/warez/spam server on their premises. That wouldn't be such a bad thing would it? Hell I'd sign up for it, but I'll be damned if I'm going to share my bandwidth with anyone.