Prologue: The Compromise

Being an active internet user like yourself, reading this post right now, I can vouch for the importance of the internet in today's day and age. Folks here have all but learned to live with poor call quality and unreliable/poor/slow internet service throughout the country in different places. I've lost count of how many times I've prayed to get a bar of signal in some odd area in the outskirts of a city or hoped that my mobile internet would give me the speeds it promised. Maybe we've forgotten to address a problem, out of compromising, or rather settling for what we got. Its not too much to ask for, and if you take a look around, a lot of people are facing the same problems.

Its not coincidence, this has become a problem as of late.




Over the past few years, with the influx of Foreign and Indian Private Companies providing Mobile and Broadband Networks it would seem that its a good time for the connectivity status in India. That, however, is not how the current situation is. The springing up of so many private companies in the wake of a steadily rising user base has only offered more options, nothing more. The quality of the network provided has faced a steady decline.

Our network quality is one of the poorest in Asia, and effectively, the world. This is no good news when we also happen to have the second largest user base in the world.

This is slowing down India's progression towards a more internet, and in effect, more tech savvy/digitised approach to things. Although we have all the internet facilities of the countries with superior network qualities, these facilities aren't being able to be used to the fullest because of the low network quality/reliability.

Low reliability on the mobile phone networks has increased over the years. A steady rise in call drops and poor call quality.

People have been complaining about all this for the longest time but no major movement has taken place for this cause. I think this problem hasn't yet been identified as something that could potentially become a big hindrance to connecting this vast nation.