Indian Narrowband Nightmare: Let’s protest!
I am sick of the awful speeds, the promises made in the name of “Broadband”. We as users have been taken for a ride BIG time and I hate the snail pace. We are being ripped off without any safeguards.
I am proposing to all the members to get together and fight [...]

Rumors: Airtel has unofficially launched 2mbps packages!
Just got this new post on the Indian Broadband Forum. A user has reported that a friend of his has been offered some new plans on his Airtel Broadband connection.
These new plans made available on a hand written paper included some “up to 2 Mb/s” plans.
We are yet to [...]

DataFox: Firefox Extension to monitor bandwidth usage on BSNL DataOne
A member of the Indian Broadband Forum, Brian Fernandes has released the first public release of a Mozilla Firefox browser extension which helps the customers of BSNL DataOne broadband connection to monitor their usage.
The extension works with Mozilla Firefox versions 1.5, 2.x and even the test [...]

Rumors: Airtel might soon launch their 2 mbps plans
A member of the India Broadband Forum has posted a PowerPoint presentation file which seems to be made for Airtel’s internal usage.
The file seems to have information on possible upcoming 2 mbps speed plans from the company. Airtel needs to do something on this front to [...]

Government rulings might result in a bandwidth boom in India
Internet service subscribers in the country can confirm that there is certainly a lack of bandwidth in the Indian market. Most ISPs in India promise the world but only manage to deliver a percentage of speeds.
However, this could change in the coming times as a result [...]

Rumored BSNL Broadband packages starting from next year
One of the members on the Indian Broadband Forum has posted these new packages mentioned in a local newspaper. We cannot confirm the accuracy of these packages though:
The new plans (according to a local paper) from 1st January 2007 are –
Home 250 – 1GB limit, 90 paisa per [...]

BSNL to spend Rs 2,000 crore on broadband infrastructure
BSNL has already announced their plans to enhance the internet speeds of their customers to up to 2 mbps starting next year.
The company has now said that they would be investing about Rs 2,000 crore to augment its broadband infrastructure in urban and rural areas.
A K Sinha, [...]

BSNL: 2007 is year of broadband in India
Government owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced the next year as the year of the broadband services in India.
The company has announced their plans to increase the broadband speed for their customers from 256 kbps to up to 2 mbps.
This service would be provided for a [...]

SIFY Broadband to pay for Unfair Trade Practices
Delhi’s North-West District Consumer Forum has by its order dated 08 Nov ‘06 directed India’s ISP SIFY Ltd (SIFY Broadband) to pay compensation of Rs 8,200/- including refund of Rs 1,200 paid for two months internet connection to a consumer, Ankur Raheja, an IT lawyer by profession for [...]

Blogger and TypePad blogs finally accessible on Airtel Broadband
Looks like we finally have some sanity in India after the ISPs in the country fixed their networks to remove the block from millions of blogs online.
We are finally able to access harmless blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger and TypePad services.
This is perhaps the result of [...]