Hello List,
Read this: http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/26broad.htm
Quote from the article
"He said that bandwidth costs too are likely to see a drastic reduction shortly with BSNL and MTNL planning to host web servers within the country by the middle of this year.
Maran said these PSUs would set up web servers, which will enable the internet traffic to be diverted within India instead of being routed out of the country. This will reduce bandwidth costs significantly, he said, adding that Internet access charges would also come down."
set up web servers? Is "Internet Backbones" the technically correct word? If internet traffic are routed out of the country, VSNL is just a gateway to it? VSNL, doesn't have an backbone? There is one backbone at Karachi and one at Lahore in neigbouring country, according to http://speedtest.net/
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