Found this video online the other day. It’s been viewed a total of 19 million times on YouTube. Quite funny:
Is that pathetic? Yes, pretty much. True? Quite.
But if you think about it, its all a matter of probability. Out of a 100, at least 5 people will be completely idiotic. That’s simply math. So you interview a 100 people and record their responses. Out of those 100, 95 give you correct, intelligent answers, but 5 give you completely idiotic replies. You edit the tapes and show only the ones with the idiotic replies. And presto, you have a montage of a nation’s ’stupidity’.
I should go out and do this at Connaught Place or something. Any takers?
Just saw the recent Airtel advertisement (I’m talking about the “Impatient Ones” – see video at the bottom). Supposedly, Airtel now has speeds upto 16mbps, yay!
Okay, reality check. The price for an 8mbps connection is Rs. 1299/month (I have no idea of prices for the 16mbps connection; the Airtel website makes no mention of it whatsoever), with a download limit of 4GB.
Did you read that correctly? A download speed of 8mbps, and a download limit of 4GB!??!
What the hell am I gonna do with an 8mbps connection if I can’t download over 4GB? Heck, I don’t need 8mbps to check my mail, man. A 2mbps connection is better than enough for that. 8mbps means FAST downloads, but with just a 4GB limit, what am I gonna download? One single game online has a file size of over 4GB.
So there goes the “Impatient Ones” crap down the sink hole.
What about the ad itself. Its clearly targetted at the youth segment. But can middle-class Indian youth really afford to pay Rs. 1500+ per month for an internet connection? Middle-class Indian youth rarely, if ever, makes any money. So they’re dependant on their parents. Would your parents give Rs. 1500/month to you for broadband? I don’t think so. Airtel is marketing to just the wrong crowd here. A much more lucrative demographic could have been the 25+ professional class that actually depends on the internet for work as well as information.
But all this hoopla and everything can’t take away one single fact that India’s broadband population is actually decreasing!
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Read this news story sometime back. Maybe I’ve mentioned it here before. Nonetheless, it gets its own post now.
Here’s the link to the story.
Its disturbing indeed to read that while the world over, internet is becoming the largest and the fastest growing medium of communication, for Indians, it remains just a source of cheap “masala” (I’ve never understood why the call it that) clips and idiotic ‘orkutting’.
The internet population of a country actually falling by any amount is a disturbing trend, but when it falls by 3 million, it actually becomes a cause for concern.
What are you doing India? Want to go back to the stone age or what?
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The state of broadband in India is bad at best. Lack of infrastructure, limitations on bandwidth, download limits, low speeds are some of the problems.
Lets look at some of the problems plaguing broadband services in India:
1. Dependence on ADSL:
This, to me, is the no.1 problem for broadband in India. ADSL is much slower than cable, which invariably leads to low speeds and bandwidth problems.
2. Lack of infrastructure:
While ADSL is slow, due to the lack of infrastructure and localized cable providers, the chances of an improvement in broadband services by providing internet vaporizes. Unless a national company such as Reliance is prepared to ink deals with the thousands of cable providers across the country, cable internet is a distant dream.
Originally posted 2008-05-12 21:14:05. Republished by Old Post Promoter