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According to foreign media reports that India′s mobile Internet access service level varies greatly, speed can be referred to as unusually slow, the Internet company in the business to bring a lot of difficulties. Many mobile applications have taken lots of attempts to circumvent the limitations of slow network, and major technology companies in the test project sought to improve India′s Internet access.
In fact, India has become the largest tech companies compete for the important markets of the third world, but India network speeds to their business caused a lot of trouble.
Can be called the world′s biggest Internet company Google India market and India is also considerable attention on the Internet, Google India′s head of lajieen·Anandan, said he was also very concerned about India users offline activities. Inside Google, their research and development team is a leading offline application procedure. This type of application can be downloaded in advance data, when no Internet connection is still in use . One of the applications that can help users browse the India capital New Delhi′s bus system, other applications that can help users to download YouTube videos on your Web site, there is an app you can provide offline version of Google maps. Though these types of applications are different, but they share the same purpose: they are in the case of mobile Internet access is poor speed allows users to correctly and make it easier to use Google products .
At present India approximately 375 million to 400 million people with Internet access, second only to China in the number. But many people use the mobile Internet connection is not stable, less speed. World′s largest mobile communications equipment company Ericsson estimates that India smartphone users access to the Internet is only 56% and statistics according to the Akamai CDN giant, India′s average Internet connection speed is approximately 2.5Mbps. By contrast, in the United States and Korea, their Internet connection speeds of around 12.7Mbps and 20.5Mbps. Anandan said: "in India, there are times when you can only connect 2G network, sometimes it can be connected to the 3G network, but also some of the time in a State of no signal. When I do our product development products can be adapted to more important contents in India such a network, the user can at any time can be a normal use of our products . ”
Zhiqian,Facebook has plans in India provides free Internet service Free Basics, but in February this year, India Telecom Administration issued regulations banning Facebook in India to provide free Internet access Free Basics. In fact, this product has been in dozens of other countries, the user can be in a State of flow for free using a simplified version of Facebook, news, weather, and the national anthem, medical treatment and other information sites. But in India, India Government and proponents of net neutrality principles, this initiative will enable Facebook to Facebook in the new user becomes "Internet" pronoun, it will undermine other competitors. In addition, India is not a lack of software development talent, but also for India, the key lies in how to optimize current telecommunications infrastructure equipment.
Cisco estimates that from 2014 to 2019, India monthly mobile data traffic will grow by 13 times, reaching 1.1 billion GB. By the year 2019, streaming video, which will occupy the three-fourths all Internet traffic will be higher than it is at present about half. In addition, Netflix also announced in January of this year entered India to launch their own service.
Google, Microsoft, and Huawei companies for India′s Internet connection speed with their solutions. This year, Google will be in India 100 railway stations set up in the city to install free WiFi service now can already achieve this service in Mumbai. In addition, Microsoft is testing, unused broadcast spectrum availability of reliable WiFi connection. Huawei is with the India mobile operators, hope can optimize network efficiency. Huawei said, through initiatives such as the replacement of outdated equipment, customers ′ network speeds can be up to 30%.
For streaming video service provider, but such improvement is far from enough. However, some service providers are trying to in some way to deal with Hong Kong Silicon Valley subsidiary of PCCW Vuclip has 9 million users in emerging markets to provide video, half of them from India. Vuclip CEO nijier·yakada said India′s telecoms regulator said India network 3G of network speed, but in practice varies in different places. Due to unreliable networks often result in users in Web video takes a long time to wait for video buffers, Vuclip system can automatically adjust video resolution, can match the user′s Internet connection, without disrupting the users. In a three-minute video, Vuclip can adjust video quality many times, their goal is to provide the user experience without buffering.
Other companies in India adopted a similar strategy. 21st Century Fox subsidiary Star in India last year India has launched the Hotstar′s streaming video service. The company said, is designed to get users of this service can be inconsistent in mobile network normal computers to watch the video. Sony, Warner Brothers, and Singapore Telecommunications was launched in June last year HOOQ another video service. This service can provide offline mode and normal bandwidth indicator tool to tell the user the current network status . Last November, Norway mobile operator Telenor′s India subsidiary to launch a streaming video service, can help the user in the free download, no network connection, you can watch normally.
In order to reduce transmission delay, some companies have turned to data center operators , such as GPX Global Systems company from New York, they will expand its data centers in Mumbai, help AWS services such as direct connect India users, instead of using the data and then bypass is located in Singapore and other places of the data center. GPX India President and CEO manuoshi·baoer said, because the user is now wanted a better user experience, this service initiative is accelerating, by using the local server, network transmission pipeline becomes bigger and cheaper.
But this one also has a problem: to India if the Government allows the flow of data. Fearing India Government policies is not conducive to foreign companies, CloudFlare San Francisco data center operators in the past years and has not set foot in India market. CEO of CloudFlare Matthew Prince says, "we′ve heard about in the India market occurs on a scary story. Over a long period of time, we have seen India the large user market demand, but we worry that regulatory risk. ”
2014 year in the Office of India′s Prime Minister MODI being taken and a business-friendly attitude, they tried to dispel concerns similar to the CloudFlare company. Over the past 7 months, CloudFlare company in India was established at three data centers, Mr Prince said India Free Basics on Facebook ban Internet access free of charge to foreign companies has brought a lot of uncertainty. He said that, taking into account the Facebook experience, many technology companies are trying to understand the future India market situation will be like.
So far, India has not been made clear by the Government guarantee. While Google and Microsoft were allowed in India try something but India Telecom Ministry spokesman N.N.Kaul) said India′s regulators is not yet ready to make a decision whether to allow the company to expand in India Internet access service plans but is more important now is to prepare technical, then make other decisions.
这里网速慢的出奇，科技巨头开始各显神通 - 印度,网速 - IT资讯
据外媒报道称，印度的移动互联网接入服务的建设水平良莠不齐，速度可以称之为慢的出奇，这给互联网公司的业务开展带来了很多困难。很多移动应用采取了种种方法试图规避网络慢的局限，同时各大科技公司也在测试项目试图改善印度的互联网接入性能。
实际上，印度已经成为了各大科技公司竞相争夺的第三世界的重要市场，但印度的网络速度给他们的业务开展造成了很大的困扰。
可以称之为全球最大的互联网公司的谷歌对印度市场乃至印度的互联网也是相当的重视，谷歌印度的负责人拉杰恩·阿南丹表示，他也非常关注印度用户的离线活动。在谷歌内部，他们的团队正在研究开发一项主导离线应用的程序。这类应用程序可以预先下载数据，在没有互联网连接的时候依旧可以正常使用。其中一款应用程序可以帮助用户浏览印度首都新德里的公交系统，另一款应用程序可以帮助用户下载YouTube网站上的视频，还有一款应用程序则可以提供离线版的谷歌地图。虽然这些应用程序类型不同，但它们有着同样的目的：它们在移动互联网接入状况也就是网速较差的情况下可以让用户正常且更容易地使用谷歌产品。
目前印度大约有3.75亿至4亿人口可以上网，数量仅次于中国。但实际情况中许多人使用的移动互联网连接并不稳定，网速较差。全球最大的移动通讯设备商爱立信估计，印度智能手机用户能够上网的时间大约只有56%；而根据CDN巨头Akamai的数据统计显示，印度的平均网络连接速度大约为2.5Mbps。作为对比，在美国和韩国，他们的互联网连接速度大约为12.7Mbps和20.5Mbps。阿南丹表示：“在印度，有些时候你只能够连接2G网络，有时候可以连接到3G网络，但还有一些时候处于没有信号的状态。我们在开发产品的时候把更重要的内容放在产品可以适应印度这样的网络状况，用户可以在任意时候都可以正常使用我们的产品。”
之前，Facebook曾计划在印度提供免费上网服务Free Basics，不过今年2月，印度电信管理局发布规定，禁止Facebook在印度提供免费上网服务Free Basics。实际上这款产品已经在其他数十个国家上下，用户可以在免流量费的状态下使用简化版的Facebook，以及国歌新闻、天气、医疗和其他信息资讯网站。不过在印度，印度政府和互联网中立性原则的支持者认为，Facebook的这一举措将使Facebook在新用户中成为“互联网”的代名词，这样将会损害其他的竞争对手。另外，印度并不缺乏软件开发人才，而且对于印度来讲，当前的关键在于如何优化电信基础设备。
思科估计，从2014年到2019年，印度的月移动数据流量将增长13倍，达到11亿GB。到了2019年，流媒体视频将在所有互联网流量中占据四分之三，将比目前高出约为一半。另外，Netflix也于今年1月宣布正式进军印度，推出他们自己的服务。
谷歌、微软和华为等公司相继为印度的互联网连接速度提供他们的解决方案。今年，谷歌将在印度城市中的100个火车站建立安装免费WiFi服务，当下孟买已经可以实现这个服务。另外，微软正在测试，尚未使用的广播电视频谱是否可以提供可靠的WiFi连接。华为正在与印度移动运营商合作，希望可以优化当前网络的效率。华为表示，通过替换过时的设备等举措，客户的网络速度可以提升最多30%。
但对于流媒体视频服务提供商而言，这样的改进还远远不够。不过一些服务提供商正尝试通过某些方式去应对，香港电讯盈科在硅谷的子公司Vuclip已经在新兴市场向900万用户提供视频，其中一半的用户来自印度。Vuclip的CEO尼基尔·雅卡达表示，印度电信管理部门对外宣称印度的网络达到3G的网络速度，但实际上不同的地方差别很大。由于不靠谱的网络时常导致用户在网络视频的时候需要长时间的等待视频缓冲，Vuclip的系统可以自动调整视频分辨率，可以匹配用户的网速，不会对用户使用造成干扰。在一段只有三分钟的视频里，Vuclip可以会多次调整视频画质，他们的目标是向用户提供无需缓冲的体验。
另外一些公司也在印度采取了类似的策略。21世纪福克斯旗下Star India去年在印度推出了名为Hotstar的流媒体视频服务。该公司表示，这一服务的设计是为了用户可以在网络不一致的移动网络中正常观看视频。索尼、华纳兄弟和新加坡电信去年6月推出了另一款视频服务HOOQ。这个服务可以正常提供离线模式和带宽指示工具，能够告诉用户当前的网络状态。去年11月，挪威移动运营商Telenor的印度子公司推出了流媒体视频服务，能够帮助用户在闲时下载内容，之后可以在无网络连接的时候正常观看。
为了减小数据传输的时延状况，一些公司也开始求助于数据中心运营商，例如来自纽约的GPX Global Systems公司，他们将扩大位于孟买的数据中心，帮助AWS等服务直接连接印度用户，而不必使用数据再绕道位于新加坡等地的数据中心。GPX印度总裁兼CEO马诺什·保尔表示，因为用户现在想要更好的用户体验，他们这样服务的举措正在加速，通过使用本地的服务器，网络传输的管道变得更大也会更便宜。
不过这其中也存在着一个问题：印度政府是否允许数据的流动。由于担心印度政府的政策不利于外国公司，旧金山的数据中心运营商CloudFlare在过去的一年中并没有涉足印度市场。CloudFlare的CEO马修·普林斯表示，“我们听说过一些在印度市场上发生的可怕的故事。在很长的一段时间里，我们看到了印度市场的庞大的用户需求，但我们也一样担心监管风险。”
2014年年中上任的印度总理莫迪目前采取了对企业友好的态度，他们试图打消类似CloudFlare公司的这样的担忧。在过去的7个月里，CloudFlare公司在印度建立了三处数据中心，普林斯表示，印度对Facebook的Free Basics免费上网服务的封杀给外国的公司带来了很多的不确定性。他表示，考虑到Facebook的遭遇，很多科技公司都在试图了解，未来印度市场的情况会是什么样。
到目前为止，印度政府尚未对此做出明确的保证。尽管谷歌和微软被允许在印度进行一些尝试，但印度电信部发言人N.N.Kaul)表示，印度的监管部门尚未准备好该做出如何决定，是否该批准这些公司扩大在印度的互联网接入服务的计划；不过目前更重要的是先让技术做好准备，随后再做出其他决定。