With so many broadband initiatives going on around the world, within 5-6 years time, India will be behind yet again by about 20 years in terms of quality broadband exposure for its citizens! THIS is not going to help our situation at all!
The government are so far behind in terms of implementing decent digital policies in India, even Brazil and China are coming up to being 10 years ahead of us in terms of planning. Take a look at the links below in regards to the types investments in broadband technologies that the governments around the world are making in order to lead the race in a new digital web run knowledge economy. And where is India?! Well take a look at the wikipedia article and just look at India!!
France is going to connect is citizens to high speed fibre optic
Australia looking to connect all of its citizens to fibre optic with speeds of up to 100mbps by 2021
80% of New Zealand already connected to fibre optic and all citizens to be connected by 2019
America - 100 million American households with access to 100 Mbit/s by 2020
Similar plans for Europe
National broadband plans from around the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
France announces $27 billion fibre broadband network - The Times of India
National Broadband Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ultra-Fast Broadband - Chorus
National Broadband Plan (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eircom next-gen network is future proofed for fibre-to-the-home - CEO - Ireland’s communications news service – Siliconrepublic.com
BUT what about India?!! What do WE HAVE planned??
A plan to connect all villages to a very low bandwidth? And we all know that a lot of that funding WILL NO DOUBT be eaten up by corrupt local councils and governments anyway, leaving probably only 50% of the funds to be used towards an old age version of secondhand fibre which will not be properly used by the village panchayats as no real training or education will be provided by the government. By 2021, India will be left with less than 1mbps as being the norm for what is termed as being "broadband" in our country! Whereas everyone in the rest of the world, including China & Brazil will be using 100mbps on a daily basis.
What a sad state of affairs, that yet again India is going to be left behind in the new digital world economy due to the prolonged and corrupt politics of India politicians and them not moving forward with their policies and funding.
The political environment of India is absolutely disgraceful! NOTHING moves forward, NOTHING gets done! I can take 5 years from the announcement of a potential policy for it to be actually implemented. Take FDI for example? What a joke that was!! Took years and years for anything to be implemented and now it has, it has ended up with so many restrictions that the major corporations have decided that the restrictions are far too time consuming and expensive to work around to even bother setting up in India! RIDICULOUS!
The government really need to make some quick policy changes in regards to improving both the quality of its digital projects in India and also education policies to improve the digital literacy of its citizens as this is very important to the future of India's economy. If India doesn't make these important changes then we could yet again be left in the dark ages for another 20 years, de ja vu - but this time rather than shortages in electricity, power cuts, no gas, no education, this time it would be low bandwidth, drops in already slow speeds, bad broadband infrastructure, lack of quality bandwidth, no access at all in some areas, ect.......all of these things will impact on India's growth story due to the fact the DIGITAL growth IS the new GLOBAL ECONOMY!
SO please INDIA GOVERNMENT, stop spending so much money on weapons and fighter planes and instead START spending on developing India into a digital economy that can match up to the rest of the world!!
The government are so far behind in terms of implementing decent digital policies in India, even Brazil and China are coming up to being 10 years ahead of us in terms of planning. Take a look at the links below in regards to the types investments in broadband technologies that the governments around the world are making in order to lead the race in a new digital web run knowledge economy. And where is India?! Well take a look at the wikipedia article and just look at India!!
France is going to connect is citizens to high speed fibre optic
Australia looking to connect all of its citizens to fibre optic with speeds of up to 100mbps by 2021
80% of New Zealand already connected to fibre optic and all citizens to be connected by 2019
America - 100 million American households with access to 100 Mbit/s by 2020
Similar plans for Europe
National broadband plans from around the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
France announces $27 billion fibre broadband network - The Times of India
National Broadband Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ultra-Fast Broadband - Chorus
National Broadband Plan (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eircom next-gen network is future proofed for fibre-to-the-home - CEO - Ireland’s communications news service – Siliconrepublic.com
BUT what about India?!! What do WE HAVE planned??
A plan to connect all villages to a very low bandwidth? And we all know that a lot of that funding WILL NO DOUBT be eaten up by corrupt local councils and governments anyway, leaving probably only 50% of the funds to be used towards an old age version of secondhand fibre which will not be properly used by the village panchayats as no real training or education will be provided by the government. By 2021, India will be left with less than 1mbps as being the norm for what is termed as being "broadband" in our country! Whereas everyone in the rest of the world, including China & Brazil will be using 100mbps on a daily basis.
What a sad state of affairs, that yet again India is going to be left behind in the new digital world economy due to the prolonged and corrupt politics of India politicians and them not moving forward with their policies and funding.
The political environment of India is absolutely disgraceful! NOTHING moves forward, NOTHING gets done! I can take 5 years from the announcement of a potential policy for it to be actually implemented. Take FDI for example? What a joke that was!! Took years and years for anything to be implemented and now it has, it has ended up with so many restrictions that the major corporations have decided that the restrictions are far too time consuming and expensive to work around to even bother setting up in India! RIDICULOUS!
The government really need to make some quick policy changes in regards to improving both the quality of its digital projects in India and also education policies to improve the digital literacy of its citizens as this is very important to the future of India's economy. If India doesn't make these important changes then we could yet again be left in the dark ages for another 20 years, de ja vu - but this time rather than shortages in electricity, power cuts, no gas, no education, this time it would be low bandwidth, drops in already slow speeds, bad broadband infrastructure, lack of quality bandwidth, no access at all in some areas, ect.......all of these things will impact on India's growth story due to the fact the DIGITAL growth IS the new GLOBAL ECONOMY!
SO please INDIA GOVERNMENT, stop spending so much money on weapons and fighter planes and instead START spending on developing India into a digital economy that can match up to the rest of the world!!