DSL technologies are great when you have buried copper, but with the cable passed homes, cable brings in good network architecture for switched digital services, but of course with shared services. DSL networks also need to have a good switched network infrastructure at the back end to offer switched video services. The bandwidths offered today are way too slow for any kind of convergence services to be offered. The cable infrastructure is badly designed as they are not regulated. The copper lines are not owned by private service operators.
Regulation needs to help.
People are talking of setting up data centres here. However the bandwidth that is available is so low that for any international customer, it makes no sense to visit any sites located here. As I mentioned earlier, we need good backbone connectivity to the Internet, and that is being worked on as we speak. The new bill in the parliament to regulate the ICE markets is on and hopefully this will help. WebTV is actually a service delivered over broadband satellite, and with the KU band service being banned in India we cannot avail of such services.