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NEW DELHI: Mobile subscribers get lowspeed Internet connectivity and broadband growth in the country is "poor", Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar said today. "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.
Mobile subscribers get low-speed Internet connectivity and broadband growth in the country is "poor", Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar said today

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

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21 megabit per second which means that a Bollywood 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."

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Govt will bring in a phased rollout to give Heading to where the living "You got to have spectrum in various bands. If you do not do that, there is no Infosys beat just expectations for more fiscal thirdOMCs and automakers time to prepare for work is plentiful is paying of question of raised data growth. Yousales have to build core infrastructure, increase penetration of quarter profit, and its full-year the transition, which is likely to cost about for several entrepreneurs w forecast. devices Here are through five important cheap mobiles takeaways or cheap tablets," he said. Rs 80,000 crore. away from Indias chaotic m on what's ahead... Government to allow all-terrain vehicles Sukhija: Invisible restaura Infosys could see expressed more middle-level to be made locally connections saying that19 eateries Khullar also concern over decline of landline they can be exits: SD Shibulal

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Bharti Enterprise's Deputy Group CEO and MD Akhil Gupta said that in the last 3-4 years telecom industry has seen some massive problems mainly due to regulatory decisions, leading to a large number of new entrants who spurred "irrational competition" in the industry. "Telecom industry in India is looking, once again, extremely promising. The promise comes from 2-3 reasons. After a long time, this industry has seen some improvement in the realised rates of voice," Gupta said. Khullar asked industry to invest to alongwith government in building telecom infrastructure. "The chief reason for this stagnancy is the lack of new investments in fixedline by incumbents owing to unviable business case for captive networks," Sterlite Networks Chief Operating Officer Vijay Jain said.
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