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State and Opportunity of Broadband in India
In this paper we will present the state and opportunity
of broadband in Asia’s
most promising and fastest growing economy an
d world’s second largest
wireless market only after China.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 4Introduction and motivation ......................................................................................................................... 5Current shape of broadband in country ....................................................................................................... 6Broadband leadership Ranking ................................................................................................................. 6Broadband Penetration in India ................................................................................................................ 8Average Broadband Speed in Country ...................................................................................................... 9The principal Challenges ............................................................................................................................. 11Limited Wire line ..................................................................................................................................... 12Scarce Broadband Spectrum ................................................................................................................... 13Low Data ARPU ....................................................................................................................................... 13Broadband opportunities ............................................................................................................................ 154G can change broadband situation ....................................................................................................... 15Deliver a GB for half a dollar ................................................................................................................... 17Deliver new internet applications with 4G ............................................................................................. 18Support of large connections in 4G cells ................................................................................................ 18A need for strong national broadband policy ............................................................................................. 19Government can influence the broadband situation ............................................................................. 19Taking India to top 10 broadband nations .............................................................................................. 22
DISCLAMER
This paper is prepared by BP Tiwari and the views expressed here are my own and does not reflect my company opinion. All the information is presented in this document were collected from publicdomain (internet) & wherever possible reference has been provided regarding the source of information.I have made reasonable efforts to ensure that information is true as best of my knowledge at the time of compilation, however I do not warrant that the information presented herein is complete and without error. Author of the paper does not take any responsibility of the errors, omissions, or any other accuracy in any form. I encourage readers to independently verify information as author does not have any responsibility of the presented information & content.
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List of Figures
Figure 1 : Broadband quality scores.............................................................................................................. 6Figure 2 : Broadband leadership scores ........................................................................................................ 7Figure 3 : Broadband penetration ................................................................................................................. 8Figure 4: Total Internet connections in country .......................................................................................... 8Figure 5 : Reliance Ev-Do Coverage .............................................................................................................. 8Figure 6 : Tata Ev-Do Coverage .................................................................................................................... 9Figure 7: BSNL Ev-Do Coverage .................................................................................................................... 9Figure 8 : Average mobile broadband speeds in metros cities ................................................................... 10Figure 9 : Distribution of speed tests .......................................................................................................... 10Figure 10 : Average National Broadband Speeds ....................................................................................... 11Figure 11 : GDP based on PPP per capita .................................................................................................... 11Figure 12: Indicative right of way charges .................................................................................................. 12Figure 13: Capex per subscriber .................................................................................................................. 12Figure 14: India Spectrum allocation chart ................................................................................................. 13Figure 15: Global Data ARPU ...................................................................................................................... 14Figure 16: Data ARPU of global operators .................................................................................................. 14Figure 17: Average Data Packages in India ................................................................................................ 14Figure 18: Global Broadband Tariffs ........................................................................................................... 15Figure 19: Total Subscriber supported per 4G cell ..................................................................................... 16Figure 19: Spectral efficiency of various technologies ............................................................................... 16Figure 20: Broadband delivery cost over 4G............................................................................................... 17Figure 21: Peak Data Rate in Different MIMO Configurations. .................................................................. 18Figure 23: Broadband and Internet users in India ...................................................................................... 19Figure 24: Projected additional spectrum requirement for India............................................................... 20Figure 25: Present right of way charges ..................................................................................................... 21Figure 26: New Telecom World Order ........................................................................................................ 22
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