Why can’t we hold our traffic ?
I have been thinking for a while, why bandwidth cost in india is very high when compared to US, which in turn is diminishing the reach of online world to INDIA.
Labor and resources are cheap here in India, but why ? Are we importing something for cost to shootup like this? The answer is, we are are simply wasting Bandwidth and paying more for it.
Why do we host a website in a server in US, while most of its customers are in INDIA?.
If we need to host here, we need more reliable datacenters here. So why there is not much datacenters here ? The answer would be bandwidth and connectivity. Since bandwidth cost is high here, we try to host servers in US, which will again increase the network traffic to US. Its a chain process and I am pretty sure we are not in the right path, which will end in a permanent solution.
ISPs here cannot reduce their cost because international bandwidth is a bit costly for them too, which restricts them to reduce bandwidth cost beyond a limit. But they are charging the same for local traffic and international traffic, where local we have got TERABYTES of bandwidth and international which is limited. It is like paying ISD rates for all calls.
My opinion as a solution for this problem is, our ISPs should start providing bandwidth based on traffic, whether it is local or international. They can give local bandwidth at very cheap prices, even cheaper than US and international can remain the same. Once this is accomplished, more datacenter startups will emerge here and there would be great difference in the international traffic.
Also there is much difference in response times,
To a Website Hosted in US
time=326 ms
To a Website Hosted in India
time=51.7 ms
So now I think If we get such a plan from Any ISPs here, I could even go for a startup in this field 
, What do you think ?
