Section 21 in The Quality Of Service Of Broadband Service Regulations, 2006
21. The Authority has considered the views of the stakeholders while fixing the benchmarks for this parameter. This parameter has been prescribed to enable the users and service providers to measure the connection speed. As per Broadband Policy, the Broadband has been defined as "an always on data connection that has the capability of the minimum download speed of 256 kbps to an individual subscriber from the Point of Presence (POP) of the service provider where multiple such individual broadband connections are aggregated". In order to facilitate measurement of download speed from POP by the user independently, a measurement facility is needed at each POP. However, it would be difficult for the Broadband service provider to install the measurement facility in each POP to facilitate the user to test independently the download speed. Therefore, service providers can install the facility at a central location or at an ISP Node. The measurement in this way shall include the intra-network links and loading of intra-network links may affect the speed measurement sometime. Therefore, keeping the reasonable loading level in intra-network links upto ISP Node, the benchmark has been prescribed that service providers shall ensure the speed of Broadband connection is >80% of the subscribed speed.
Measurement of Broadband Connection Speed (download):
