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Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month

Posted by timothy on from the rupdee-do dept.

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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  1. Re:Should be noted... by mallumax · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm from india.100 Rs is definitely very cheap. To put it in perspective
    --In Metros a movie ticket costs 70-200 Rs.(depends on the metro).
    --Landline rentals start at around 350 Rs.
    --Internet call rates (not the ISP charge) if you use the BSNL telephone network is more than 20 Rs an hour and around 7 Rs after 10.30pm till 8 am.ISP charges are extra.

    So at 100 Rs/month this is a steal !!

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    TechSutra
  2. I wish my government would take notice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am from the neighbouring state karnataka (yes in Bangalore and yeah it is definitely true that I am taking american jobs, we don't have anything to eat so we don't need broadband and yeah I catch an elephant to work every morning).
    I definitely wish our chief minister takes notice, but I don't have much hope because of the deputy chief minister (who is like Sauron behind Saruman).
    Congrats to the telugu (APs language) guys, we have been beating them in everything (including letting them think that we actually wanted M$ to establish a center in bangalore...yeah like anyone would *want* that *evil grin*). But on a serious note it is a good thing, I hope they can really use this to reduce corruption in the state department.

    Anyway some random rant, why we need IT and internet in the government is to actually alleviate poverty. How that would happen (as I see it) would be that by automating mundance tasks like getting sites and homes approved, land for agriculture, eastablishing industries etc., it would take the power away from the government employees and reduce corruption (or atleast push corruption to higher echelons of power like in the US). This would mean that the politicians need to actually approve projects from companies to get money which would mean more power to us.

    Most moderators won't read till here so people
    observe I will be modded flamebait.