Help me understand why there are no unlimited internet packages in sri lanka.

D34DM4U5

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  • Feb 20, 2019
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    Hey guys,

    Question is literary in the title. Please leave your opinions below.

    What bugs me the most is that we literary have to stay up awake till late night to download files that are large in size or stream decent quality video or heck even torrents. imo 34gigs per month is simply not enough in 2019.

    I genuinely wanna subscribe to services like netflix and stop pirating movies although with the given data cap of nearly 1gb per day, that doesn't sound like smartest thing to do.

    Moreover the same isp is offering ftth link with 100mbit down and 50mbit up stating from 90gb/month package (34peak|56off) and what on earth were they thinking that this much of data is enough for the connection speed.

    I have had some friends who I met over social media and gaming platforms all over south asia (india/pak/nepal/bang/sing) and literary almost all of them had at least one or more ISPs providing unlimited home broadband for reasonable price

    Closest acceptable answer I have had from a local friend who started internship at lankacom recently was that the allocated bandwidth for submarine cables that connect SL to overseas are simply not enough (specially uplink) and also the infrastructure seem pretty poor even for current traffic.

    Maybe it's the case, or is it? Why is the government taking absolutely no action to improve internet connectivity? Help me understand this mess.

    Thanks. Good day!

    Regards,
    Some frustrated es fcuking el tee customer.
     
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    Butter Gel

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  • Dec 21, 2014
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    So as Elakiri community we all contribute and install new backbone line to Singapore or wherever nearest rather than keep complaining