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Seriously 20 rupees for 20GB?!? For context, that is about $0.30. In any case, this is awesome. Any plans to expand to other cities soon? An unrelated quest
by blhack 10y ago
Seriously 20 rupees for 20GB?!?
For context, that is about $0.30.
In any case, this is awesome. Any plans to expand to other cities soon?
An unrelated question (that I think you might have a good answer to): When I've been to India, I've noticed that there is a lot of free WiFi around (in Mumbai, at least), but ALL of it requires that you have an Indian phone number that you have to register in order to get access.
Why is this? The cynic in me assumes that this so that network traffic can be tied to a real human being (since your phone number is tied to your person).
I guess a followup question: were there any interesting regulatory hurdles you had to jump through for this? Also what does the backhaul look like? Are you reselling 4G data? Building your own wireless backhaul maybe?
Cool project!
- mildlyclassic 10y agoThe phone number requirement is a government thing, it's not really from the provider's perspective. The good news is that the government is rethinking this and TRAI has recently recommended stopping it. Our backhaul is 100mbps fibre lines.
- blhack 10y agoReally cool. Are you guys running custom hardware in the yellow boxes or is it something off the shelf?
- mildlyclassic 10y agoCustom. We've also got some nice processing power & storage in our Dabbas for future plans.
- blhack 10y agoCan you share any details of what the hardware is?
- ziikutv 10y agoI am willing to bet it is something very trivial like Raspberry PIs connected to dongles. If you look at the map a lot of the locations are very concentrated; this is likely because there are shit tonne of "Chai Wallah" places in India :). However, looking at the outliers, I am not expecting a device that is creating something similar to a net nor a wifi extender. It would be way cheaper than having some other sort of a receiver.
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