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Ministry of Communications & Information Technology Broadband Internet Services As per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report on “The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators” for January - March 2011 dated 28/07/2011, nine (9) Public sector and one hundred and thirty two (132) private sector companies are providing Broadband Internet Services in different licensed areas across the country. TRAI has issued recommendations on National Broadband Plan on 8th December 2010. Para 6.21 and 6.22 of these recommendations with regard to speed of Broadband internet are as under “6.21 The Authority recommends that: Broadband connection may be defined as “A data connection using any technology that is able to support interactive services including Internet access and support a minimum download speed of 512 Kilo bits per second (Kbps)”. 6.22 It is to be noted that the upload speed will atleast be half the download speed. This definition of broadband (Both Wireline an...

TRAI Directs Telecom Service Providers to Provide Adequate Information to Broadband Consumers In order to ensure transparency in delivery of broadband services and to protect interests of consumers in the telecom sector, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today issued directions to telecom service providers for delivering broadband services in a transparent manner by providing adequate information to the broadband consumers about various plans and Fair Usage Policy (FUP). Through this direction, telecom service providers have been asked to provide adequate information on Fair Usage Policy (FUP); to ensure that speed of broadband connection is not reduced below the minimum speed specified and to provide alert to consumers when their data usage reaches 80% and 100% of the data usage limit bundled with the plan. This direction has already been placed on TRAI website- www.trai.gov.in .