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Happened to read this at Slashdot :

An anonymous reader notes that Comcast is offering a new 50-Mbps / 6-Mbps package for residential customers for $150, starting in Minneapolis-St. Paul and extending nationwide by mid-2010. The new service will use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard, which is nearing ratification. We’ve recently discussed Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling and promise to quit it, and their low-quality ‘HD’ programming. How attractive will $150 for 50 Mbps be compared to Verizon’s FiOS offerings?

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/03/1427227.shtml

This is crazy!!! And totally unfair! Here in India the fastest “broadband” that we can get is a 2Mbps ADSL connection that comes to around 500 rupees (excluding tax). And just compare prices. Makes my heart break I’ve heard that broadband services are better and cheaper (than in the US) in some other countries (Korea? Japan?).

I wish affordable Broadband comes to India. It isn’t like there is no market here for proper broadband. The demand is there, the supply is absent.

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