<div dir="ltr">Interesting point raised Sivasubramanian.<br><br>I think one of the main reasons Internet prices are high in developing and least-developed nations is due to the enforcement - by lobbyists - of dealing with certain higher Tier-X ISPs while in fact they can get bandwidth at much cheaper prices from other market players. I know that India has several IXPs that are managed by NIXI, so I guess there is not much cost-savings there.<br>
<br>In Jordan for example, Internet prices are going down continuously. While Jordan does not have an IXP, ISPs are enforced to deal with certain upper Tier providers since the big players in the Jordanian market are Western investments. And then comes the part where many Jordanians feel at unrest if they know that some of Jordan's Internet cables go through Israel (this is a hidden fact). All sorts of crazy debates erupt such as "The Israel's are monitoring our traffic" and all sorts of conspiracy theories.<br>
<br>Fahd<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>The following article appeared in Economic Times. Posting it here for discussion. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/What-stops-internet-access-from-being-cheaper-14403" target="_blank">http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/What-stops-internet-access-from-being-cheaper-14403</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The more fortunate among India's Internet Users have a 2 Mbps connection with actual speeds averaging 512 Mbps with an average bandwidth cap (in gross, un-researched estimates) of about 5 Gb by wire or about 500 Mb mobile. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As an end user, If I have to ask our phone companies to catch up with Google fiber's 1 GIGAbps bandwidth with no caps at $ 70 per month, how would I, as an end user, argue that such bandwidth plans would be viable and more profitable? </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/" target="_blank">https://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Sivasubramanian M</div>
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