TRAI chief dissatisfied with broadband speed, growth

Mobile subscribers get low-speed Internet connectivity and broadband growth in the country is 'poor', TRAI Chairman Rahul Khullar said on 10 January.

"In India, things are not very optimistic. Here, we have very low speeds on our mobiles and on all our devices. Our broadband connection growth is poor," he said at a seminar organised by Amity University.

The government has revised minimum broadband speed in country from download speed of 256 kilobit per second to 512 kbps from last July.

Theoretically, a high speed mobile broadband under 3G services can deliver top speed of 21 megabit per second which means that a movie can be downloaded in about 4 minutes. Telecom operators claim that they deliver speed of 2-4 mbps, which means that a movie can be downloaded in 40-20 minutes.

However, Khullar said, "The broadband is simply not as ubiquitous as it is elsewhere... Try and use your instrument to download videos on 3G and you will see."

Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said there is need to make more spectrum, or radiowaves, available to operators so that they can deploy newer technologies for increasing broadband speed.

"You just got to have more spectrum in various bands. If you do not do that, there is no question of data growth. You have to build core infrastructure, increase penetration of devices through cheap mobiles or cheap tablets," he said.

Khullar also expressed concern over decline of landline connections saying that they can be instrumental in providing high speed broadband services.

Khullar asked industry to invest to alongwith government in building telecom infrastructure.

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