Broadband penetration poised to jump in India

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The number of users with high speed Internet access in India will jump this
year from a low two per 10,000 people helped by new regulation being drawn
up, the country's telecoms regulator said. Pradip Baijal, chairman of the
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, told an industry seminar the
Authority would shortly unveil a policy paper to boost broadband Internet
access that will tap the access of millions of Indian homes to cable TV.
India is the world's third-biggest cable television market with 48-million
cable households. India, Asia's third-largest economy and one of the fastest
growing, has had notable success in boosting phone penetration over the past
decade helped by radical regulatory changes. But Internet access is slow and
expensive and its penetration of 0.4 per 100 people lags that in China of
two per 100 people, 11 in Malaysia and 58 in Korea. Internet access in India
is usually through dial-up telephone lines where speeds never exceed 50
kilobytes per second.

Source:
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=technologyNews&locale=en
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