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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Keep in mind what it will be used for...

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...Now, I can expect even more phone calls with even less customer service as the lowest end of the marketing and support business gets even lower end.

While the best outsourcing phone banks do a reasonable job, the average ones are crap, and this will set the low end bar lower than ever.

Fiarly soon, we can expect little differentiation between a call to a vendor for help with our firewall, and say....line noise. Oh, wait, I have a sonicwall. I've already passed that mark.