Internet Speed - India vs USA

It is probably not fair to compare the two, still.

I read this article on trak.in about Google plans to experiment very high speed internet connection upto 1GB/s at selected US locations (see video at end).

Also saw this screenshot by the blog owner, Arun Prabhudesai, about the dismal Internet speed at India (screenshot below) ... as we can see the internet speed is hardly 0.4MBPS. (and this is broadband high speed connection, not the dialup types which we used to use 8 years back that kept loading forever)

Now, Last time I was at delhi, they used to charge around Rs 700 (I had Airtel broadband). (around 15.5$) ... although unitary methods should not be used for such cases but still by simple maths this turns out 30$ to use 1MB/s speed in India. (15.5$/0.5)

I thought to check internet speed at my home @ Pennsylvania to see how it turns out.

It turned out to be 20 MB/s!!

Now, I have comcast here and I pay around 45$ per month (incidentally, I used to pay 20$ promotional price for first six month.)

So in this case, it comes out around 2.25$ to use 1MB/s in US.

Summary - from elementary mathematics it sounds like we pay 10-15 times more in India, and we get a dismal service... still we have made some progress so far, so hopefully will improve upon in future.

Less said the better, we do have a long way to go.

PS - here is the video-