Broadband

Broadband

Your editorial ( TOI March 3) regarding broadbasing broadband is appropriate and timely. TRAI may claim that 60 million Indians have access to internet, 46 million have wireless internet subscribers and 2.47 brodband subscribers These numbers are small compaed to our large population. It ia noteworthy that India has one of the lowest broadband subscriber penetration rates in Asia. The government attempt to maximise revenue gains by imposing high liecnsing tariff on service providers is not a welcome step.Broadband facility should be considered as a basic necessity for ushering in development. Disparities in knowledge dissemination can be removed by enhancing broadband access to a larger section of people. At the same time the quality of broadband service needs to be improved to avoid huge time loss.


A.R.K.Pillai
Mumbai 4-4-08 Email ID idfark@gmail.com