Akamai is publishing quarterly report on the internet called "The state of the internet"
These reports can be found here http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
It can be downloaded after quick registration.
The reports give interesting insights into how internet works.
interesting things I found, relating to india:
1) Reliance Globalcom is a big player in cable connectivity
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"In April 2008, Reliance Globalcom used satellite imagery to identify two ships that were in
the area of the original cable cuts, and that had improperly dropped anchor in the area.18
The owners of one of the ships paid $60,000 in damages to compensate for repairs, while
the second ship was impounded in Dubai."
2) Some good things happening for india
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"A consortium of 16 telecommunications firms has contracted to build a 15,000 km
submarine cable system linking India with Europe via the Middle East. The Europe India
Gateway (EIG) will cost $700 million and add 3.84 Tbps of capacity. The EIG consortium
includes firms from the US, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India – including AT&T,
Verizon, BT, Cable & Wireless, MTN, Telecom Egypt, Omantel, Saudi Telecom Company,
du, Bharti Airtel, Gibraltar’s Gibtelecom, PT Comunicacoes of Portugal, Djibouti Telecom,
Maroc Telecom, Libya Telecom and Technology, and Telkom South Africa. Initial landings
are for the cable are planned for the UK, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Monaco, France,
Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and India.
At least two other new cables serving much the same route as the EIG are also currently
being planned. Tata Communications is leading the consortium behind the IMeWe
system, due to add another potential 3.84 Tbps to the route when it goes live in 2009.
Also backing IMeWe are Etisalat, France Telecom, Ogero of Lebanon, PTCL of Pakistan,
TIS Sparkle of Italy, as well as EIG investors Bharti Airtel, Telecom Egypt and STC. Tata is
also behind the TGN Eurasia Cable System, set to link Mumbai with Paris, London and
Madrid via Egypt, with Seacom and Telecom Egypt as fellow sponsors.36
Along these lines, research firm Telegeography’s annual Global Bandwidth Research
Service noted that 25 new submarine cables will be built over the next three years"
