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Broadband: Customers in Colombo and Chennai get more or less the same speeds, but the promises vary widely http://lirneasia.net/2008/11/broadband-customers-in-colombo-and-chennai-get-more-or-less-the-same-speeds-but-the/ (lirneasia.net)

published: 2008-11-16 13:07:12 ( 1 month ago )fetched: 2008-11-16 19:15:37 ( 1 month ago )

The download speeds that customers get in Chennai, Colombo and Dhaka are not very different, if you carefully examine the results of the October 2009 results of broadband QOSe using the Ashokatissa methodology jointly developed by IIT Madras and LIRNEasia. What differs is the level of truth in advertising. In Sri Lanka, everybody is lying. In India, they are closer to the truth.

The difference is regulation. In India, the regulator is proactive on this issue; in Sri Lanka, the regulator only worries about things like porn and imaginary towers. We cannot mandate truth in advertising; only

[ ... ] Source: Kottu.Org

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