Nikhil,

I am a regular reader of this site. I am planning to move from US to India, to begin a new venture.  I notice that you frequently highlight the issues related to broadband access. It bothers me that I might not even be able to get a decent broadband connection in India. Can you clarify the available plans and prices related to internet access in India. That would be an invaluable post, and a timely one for me. Can you accommodate it..

Citizen journalism is what CNN-IBN is also promoting pretty aggressively these days....and has got quite a lot of success too. But I guess InstaBlog is positioned more towards alternate journalism which is something that conventional news agencies can’t

BTW
>the company gets 2.5+ page-views per month

Did you mean 2.5+ million?

Hey Ram,

Broadband shouldn’t be an issue. That said, don’t expect 8 mbps lines running arnd. As long as you’re moving to a metro you should be fine.

There is easy availability of wired broadband, and its pretty easy to get a connection. Plans range from 1mbps/month | unlimited access for about $70 to a $25 512kbps unlimited plan.

Don’t expect anything mroe than dial up speeds from our GPRS/EDGE networks though. And Srabucks-ish free wifi coffe houses are very very rare, unless u r in b’lore, where they are singularly rare.

Lemme know if u need any more info. Check out Reliance/Airtel/MTNL/TATA for plans. You need to get a tele line for these, but u don’t necessarily have to use it.

cheerios.

Techcrunch got hold of an old presentations. Even the numbers they have quoted are not correct.

We used to have 2.5 million pageviews and 12,000 reg. members few months ago. Now the numbers have increased quiet a bit.

@ Aayush
Mainstream media can’t compete with new media by only deploying handful of blogs, setting up comments with their articles or adding few social networking features. We are not trying to competed with MSM, but building a platform where traditional media and new media don`t compete but complement each other.

So its not “alternate journalism” but “collaborative journalism”

Hi RAM,

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Thanks.

Jiren Chhapia