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India Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 11:08:33 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh () hserus net> Date: May 7, 2008 10:46:34 AM EDT To: <dave () farber net>, <imhopper () gmail com> Subject: RE: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage FeesUmm.. I don't know which ISP you're using but several offer 4 mb and 8 mb ADSL (down of course, rather slower on up) - but the cap is usually 4..8 GB
a month, yes. And I (based in Madras, India) pay rather less than half of what you'repaying for 2 mbit DSL with a 5 GB cap. $75 is like INR 3000 .. what I pay is
closer to INR 1500 than anything else (Tata Indicom / http://www.tataindicombroadband.com/).BSNL (state owned telco) is offering 8 mb broadband these days and at least
one other ISP that I know of is offering 4 mb srs
-----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:49 PM To: ip Subject: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees ________________________________________ From: David Ian Hopper [imhopper () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:16 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees Welcome to the rest of the world. Outside the US, unmetered access is far from the norm, from dialup to broadband. In India, I pay about $75/month for 2 Mbps downstream access on an unmetered plan -- that's the fastest a private person can get. The unlimited plans are not widely advertised, and priced well out of the range of even those people who are "rich" enough to have Internet access at all. The most popular plans are 300 rupees (about 7 bucks at the current exchange) for 256KB. On one hand, when you have a lot of people and a limited series of tubes, there have to be limits. On the other, if Comcast is telling the truth that only a tiny percentage of their users are "heavy" users, then they won't piss off very many -- and are likely to get a significant number of those to pay extra for unlimited access, since there are relatively few options for broadband in a given neighborhood. - Ian. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:________________________________________ From: Ralph [rs9174 () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees 250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per month? 0? 1? 5? 25? Ralph Sierra ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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