There are many interesting comments posted in the course of the conversation here for a free and frank discussion. I am posting here the frustration faced by a user from Calcutta who is famous as “pupudada”. I welcome more stories on the user’s perspective here.
What more can one expect when even the `Minister of Communications’ Mr. Dayanidhi Maran promises and yets fails to deliver? We have been seeing the era of the Internet being ushered in on the 15th of August 1995. At that time a dial-up 56kbps was the defacto standard, yes, that my `dear’ friend in the Netherlands had a 512kbps broadband connection was a matter of envy for me…
Today, while I have a broadband (sic) connection of 256kbps (unlimited) and pay roughly U.S.$20 (assuming one Dollar to be equal to Rs.50 for calculation purposes) for the same.. my `dear’ friend pays U.S.$40 for his 1gbps connection. sweet? So, during these years while we have progressed approximately 4.5 times from 56kbps to 256kbps, my `dear’ friend has jumped 2048 times.. time to say Mera Bharat Mahaan!
The starter of this topic.. my `frustrated & bandwidth starved’ friend has just pointed out what is the `tip of the iceberg’ of the callous services with which we are treated to (and what hurts me more.. is that we accept the same silently like `sheeps being taken to slaughter’.. what the hell?
Are we not paying for the Broadband Services.. If yes, why are we paying so much more?
Purchasing bandwidth is the same all over the world.. give or take a fraction of a ignorable percent.. so it is obvious who is reaping the moolah at the cost of whom.. moreso when the `public owned’ BSNL too does not live up to its own statements.
Come on dear friends.. its high time we started the ball rolling.. yes you have to believe that `together we can achieve’.. it has been proved in the past.. the biggest mistake was to relax once we had achieved our previous goal.. we should have kept up the pressure right from then itself..
Sorry for the slow speed at which I am typing.. but, I am on Narrowband ™ India
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