[IP] India Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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 Fees

Umm.. 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're
paying 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
> >
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