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TRAI notifies minimum broadband speed at 512 kbps

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has notified that the minimum broadband speed has been raised to 512 kilo bytes per second (kbps) from the earlier 256 kbps.

TRAI also announced that amendment has been made to the Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal Regulations, 2012.  The amendment was made as Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2014.

As per the new amendment, the new definition of broadband is "a data connection that is able to support interactive services including internet access and has the capability of minimum download speed of 512 kbps to an individual subscriber from the point of presence (POP) of the service provider intending to provide broadband service".

The regulations will come into force after publication in the official gazette.

The Department of Telecommunications ( DoT) had  earlier revised the broadband speed in consonance of the National Telecom Policy 2012 and TRAI recommendations.

The earlier minimum broadband speed of 256 kbps was as per the Broadband Policy 2004.
According to National Telecom Policy 2012
  • Government aims to raise the broadband download speed of to 512 kbps from 256 kbps.
  • Subsequently government will raise the speed to 2 Mbps by 2015.
As per TRAI data
  • Total broadband subscribers in the country rose by 5.82 per cent to 65.33 million at the end of May 2014 from 61.74 million at the end of April 2014.
  • While wired broadband subscribers stood at 14.95 million as of May this year.
  • Mobile device users (phones and dongles) were 49.97 million.
  • Fixed wireless (Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Point-to-Point, Radio and VSAT) subscribers stood at 0.41 million for the same period.

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