Date:05/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/05/stories/2008050558580300.htm

Tamil Nadu

What they say

C. Umashankar, managing director, ELCOT: We need to stop talking about kilo-bits and evolve into the high-speed era of mega and gigabits per second.

And fairly quickly at that if we’re to compete with the world. Japan, for instance, is offering an average speed of 65 mbps. Internet has to spread beyond the cities to the villages.