Broadband growth in urban areas to continue
The mainstream acceptance of high – speed broadband internet connections in the country is likely to continue to radically change the way people use online items like video, music and telecommunications, a report mentions.
In a report which was compiled by experts and researchers at Gartner earlier this week, they had noted that the urban areas of the country will continue to take in packages which give the best speeds possible.
However, the report also mentioned that people in rural as well as less populated places in the country could possibly be neglected due to this, which could result in a ‘bandwidth divide’ which could come about within the next couple of years.
The main research analyst in the group, Fernando Elizalde, said that efficient web connectivity could become possibly a big issue which all governments in countries across the world will have to deal with as the demand for the best service available continue to increase across all age groups.
He also said that the service providers were responsible to make high – speed internet available as a premium service, saying that this will make sure that broadband is not commodised and that they will be able to strike a balance between charging more for the service and the willingness of the consumer to cough out money for the incremental speed.
The report also mentioned the definition of these premium services, saying that they should be able to have a downlink speed of 50 Mbps or more. The report also noted that in addition to the amount of entertainment that these packages are capable of providing, they will also give lots of opportunities for service providers as well as for app developers.
Just the last week, thinkbroadband.com’s Andrew Ferguson mentioned that customers are still not clear about the misleading messages that companies always use when marketing the quality of these broadband packages.
