India’s internet user base to hit 402 million, second-highest in the world: IAMAI

[Dungeness]

I recently started a two contract for their triple play services. First year price is very good, the second year it will jump up by $25

Regarding the speed portion of the service. I'm getting 150mbps but most of the time speed test very close to 200mbps. Very happy with the service.

When your your contract expires, you can always (in a nice way) tell them you want to cancel your service and their retentions department will most likely offer you a sweet deal to stay

200mbps? Nice! I need to check if they upgraded the service in my area. 50mbps was the highest they offered the time. Thanks for the advice, will try that when the contract expires.

 

[Nilgiri]

Comcast Xfinity 50 Mbps, but recently, the speed test result has been at around 90 Mbps. I pay $62/m with voice phone service.

Thats roughly the same price as Canada as well.

 

[Dungeness]

Thats roughly the same price as Canada as well.

Read through some posts in this thread, Indian pays more for internet? It seems the speed and price varies.

 

[Nilgiri]

Read through some posts in this thread, Indian pays more for internet? It seems the speed and price varies.

From what I gather the standard PSU govt company crap (BSNL, MTNL + co) offer 12 USD per month for 2 Mbps at a low cap after which its 0.5 Mbps unlimited.

@Ryuzaki and @TejasMk3 have the better (private company I think) fibre infra+services...and ryu was saying he pays about 46 USD per month for 100 Mbps (for 100 Gig cap after which its 10 Mbps unlimited). Maybe @TejasMk3 can also give a price for what hes paying monthly for his too.

Basically like everything in India, private>>govt....both in cost and quality and fibre is only now taking off in many areas as the infra gets laid. Demand is certainly outstripping the supply.

 

[TejasMk3]

Maybe @TejasMk3 can also give a price for what hes paying monthly for his too.
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2000 for 100mbps, 200gb, 1mbps post fup (dat drop!!).

So roughly about 30$ according to todays exchange rate. Price varies a lot, even within the same state.

 

[Nilgiri]

2000 for 100mbps, 200gb, 1mbps post fup (dat drop!!).

So roughly about 30$ according to todays exchange rate. Price varies a lot, even within the same state.

200 gig is a good cap if you are just one person (or even two) using it. Whos your ISP?

 

[Dungeness]

From what I gather the standard PSU govt company crap (BSNL, MTNL + co) offer 12 USD per month for 2 Mbps at a low cap after which its 0.5 Mbps unlimited.

@Ryuzaki and @TejasMk3 have the better (private company I think) fibre infra+services...and ryu was saying he pays about 46 USD per month for 100 Mbps (for 100 Gig cap after which its 10 Mbps unlimited). Maybe @TejasMk3 can also give a price for what hes paying monthly for his too.

Basically like everything in India, private>>govt....both in cost and quality and fibre is only now taking off in many areas as the infra gets laid. Demand is certainly outstripping the supply.

In China, every telecom is owned by gov. The price in bolt seems quite expensive. I was using ADSL in Shanghai in 2004, and it was about US$150 for a year for unlimited 1.5 mbps from China Unicom. With all social media contents, you can't do much with 2 mbps.

100 mbps for $46 a month seems to be reasonable, but may be considered very expensive for regular city folks or rural residents?

 

[TejasMk3]

200 gig is a good cap if you are just one person (or even two) using it. Whos your ISP?

Beam/ACT fibernet I use about 150 a month, still getting used to the new plan . 5 people, but the rest of them use it lightly, (browsing, youtube etc).

Plus in terms of content I am saturated, I have a lot of stuff downloaded that I havent even looked at, and even more got from friends/colleagues in office through monthly exchanges, so you can imagine the backlog. Previously this hard drive swapping was important to get over the dl caps, now not so much.

 

[CHN Bamboo]

4G data

What's that...
In Hubei province,I searched 100M the price marked is high(180$/year),but in fact my family only pay 110$,then I get that 10M 400yuan/year,20M 500yuan/year,maybe when people buy they're cheaper than the price marked.
According to my classmate who went to village recently he said villages had access to 100M but he didn't know the price.
I haven't been back to my fathers' homeplace(mountain in Hunan province) for 3 years,the next year I may go back and ask relatives there,they used 6M 3 years before.

110$ per year for 50-100M? My parents pay 20$ per month for a stupid 1M.


Caucasians are blue? TIL :p

Hello!I haven't seen you for some days,how is it going?
whaaaat?20$ per month for 1M,maybe your parents should search for better supplier....
Maybe after some years this problem will be solved,sympathy for those Indians who cant play League of Legends

 

[Dungeness]

What's that...
In Hubei province,I searched 100M the price marked is high(180$/year),but in fact my family only pay 110$,then I get that 10M 400yuan/year,20M 500yuan/year,maybe when people buy they're cheaper than the price marked.
According to my classmate who went to village recently he said villages had access to 100M but he didn't know the price.
I haven't been back to my fathers' homeplace(mountain in Hunan province) for 3 years,the next year I may go back and ask relatives there,they used 6M 3 years before.

4G or 3G, your cellphone internet data plan. 手机流量价格

 

[Nilgiri]

In China, every telecom is owned by gov. The price in bolt seems quite expensive. I was using ADSL in Shanghai in 2004, and it was about US$150 for a year for unlimited 1.5 mbps from China Unicom. With all social media contents, you can't do much with 2 mbps.

Wow I didnt know that! Are there any private cable/fiber lease companies (that lease bandwith from the govt supplier?) and then supply to the consumers to help bring prices down.

Thats the system here in canada (except the big "two" are not govt owned but just rather large).

100 mbps for $46 a month seems to be reasonable, but may be considered very expensive for regular city folks or rural residents?

Rural folk I doubt would even be getting fibre. There are town or village hubs with a BSNL connection of some sort with wifi maybe for the immediate core area....that helps farmers with their prices/info archives etc. Not sure the penetration of this sort of connectivity...but its not as high as the mobile based ones thats for sure (which I have little idea about pricewise). There is little demand here yet for private rural household fibre (and certainly not profitable for anyone to create the infra to service them)...that will be many years down the road....and probably only for the ones that reach a certain population size (basically urbanisation makes the required density for a certain infrastructure to be feasible).

City folk are a mixed bunch. There are definitely much better wages and large established communities/suburbs of affluent people that are increasing...so thats why the fiber is being put in....and these people certainly are willing to pay for it. They can definitely afford it as the broadband companies are doing quite well and expanding their services and infra each year from what I have heard....both augmenting capacity and spreading to newer markets.

If you really want to gauge the overall pricepoint impact relative to other goods, the PPP multiplier for India is about 3. So effectively about 90 - 120 bucks in PPP terms for 100 mbps monthly in India....so the relative price footprint is about double or triple that of an American consumer for the same service (roughly speaking)....but of course India is not at all homogenous so this measure is of somewhat dubious utility in this instance if we are talking about affluent City folk especially.

 

[liall]

What's that...
In Hubei province,I searched 100M the price marked is high(180$/year),but in fact my family only pay 110$,then I get that 10M 400yuan/year,20M 500yuan/year,maybe when people buy they're cheaper than the price marked.
According to my classmate who went to village recently he said villages had access to 100M but he didn't know the price.
I haven't been back to my fathers' homeplace(mountain in Hunan province) for 3 years,the next year I may go back and ask relatives there,they used 6M 3 years before.


Hello!I haven't seen you for some days,how is it going?
whaaaat?20$ per month for 1M,maybe your parents should search for better supplier....
Maybe after some years this problem will be solved,sympathy for those Indians who cant play League of Legends

We have Airtel biggest telecom player in India I get 300 ping on NA server from Delhi on that internet lol. BTW China should open its servers for other players.

 

[TejasMk3]

We have Airtel biggest telecom player in India I get 300 ping on NA server from Delhi on that internet lol. BTW China should open its servers for other players.

300 ping o.0

Garena, 30 ping to singapore. or play on EU (150 ping...tolerable),if Garena skill cap is too low (for most part it is...plus most people have terrible internet, they keep dropping in and out).

But just shift to a better game..DOTA

 

[Dungeness]

Wow I didnt know that! Are there any private cable/fiber lease companies (that lease bandwith from the govt supplier?) and then supply to the consumers to help bring prices down.
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There are 4 state-owned network operators in China, 3 of them provide land line+mobile service (China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile), and 1 (China Broadcast Networks) provides cable TV +internet. All of them are nation wide, and obligated to provide their service to cities as well as rural areas, regardless profitable or not. There is no private provider that I know of.

Land line Broadband : As of May of 2015, there are 457 million land line internet users, 450 million of them use broadband (41.8% using Fiber Optical, 51.0% using ASDL or Cable with 8Mbps or above).

Usually, the monthly cost of broadband is about $10-$15 for unlimited use with no speed cap. In China, the internet cost is capped by the government, so there is no much difference between providers and regions. Usually, it is a little cheaper in rural areas and small cities.

Mobile Internet: As of June 2015, there are 594 million mobile internet users ( the number overlap with broadband users), 85.7% has 3G/4G access. I don't know data plan cost in China.

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[CHN Bamboo]

China should open its servers for other players.

Servers?You mean let Indian play with Chinese in LOL?I hope so but India may not permit...

I get 300 ping on NA server from Delhi on that internet lol.

Ping?Ah...I can't see ping but I think it means very slow?
I hate those who go out of the game halfway,if Indian play with Chinese maybe many Chinese will suffer from heart attack....