Retail broadband users to get 1 Gbps speeds by mid-2013
08 Oct 2012
Telecom infrastructure firm Radius Infratel says retail broadband users may have access to ultra-fast download speeds of 1 Gbps by mid-2013 in nine Indian cities.
Radius CEO Rajnish Wahi said in the next 6-9 months, world class 1,000 Mbps or 1 Gbps (Gigabits per second) plans would be available in India to residential consumers. On connections like these, he said a typical high definition movie of about 2.2 GB size that took over an hour to full download at average broadband speeds would download in 30 seconds.
Though he declined to disclose the names of service providers or the cities where the plans would be first available, he said that discussions were underway and network
deployment was already complete to enable this in Gurgaon.
He added, Radius had partnered with a number of real estate developers, including DLF, Unitech, Emaar MGF, Ansal, Mantri, Vipul, ATS, Omaxe, Vipul, M3M, Paramount and Prateek for fibre optic network that would provide high-speed broadband services in projects under development with them.
According to Radius executive director, Kuldeep Goyal, Radius network was already available in or near 3 lakh homes and was live in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Indirapuram (Ghaziabad). The network will soon be available in Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and Chandigarh.
Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices are offering 100Mbps for common users, which costs over Rs5,000 per month.
