bangalore the broadband is getting that much border with connectivity speeds of up to 256 kbps in office its not easy to be contented with 56 kbps at home especially when one has to carry work back and with many corporates encouraging employees to work from home the broadband experience is really catching on schoolgoing children incidentally form one half of the driving forceaccording to a bsnl official 300 applications are filed every day for broadband connectivity in bangalore alone an astonishing figure considering that broadband used to be the preserve of an esoteric few just some years backsays gayatri sunder a mother of three my kids are used to high speed internet in schoolsthey will have none of the slow speeds at home as they are not prepared to wait endlessly for their favourite downloads to be completed with gaming becoming a rage downloads using dialup have become increasingly painful and this is where broadband is immensely helpfulsharing of photographs and video clips is another element that is adding to the urgency for broadband techie amit singh is one among the thousands of professionals who cannot do without a residential broadband connection its one of the prerequisites now he says you have to be connected to your work station all the time and connectivity speeds are of paramount significancesensing this telecom companies have stepped up their marketing warfare and the result is a 11 million broadbanduser population in the country which is 12 per cent of the total number of pc usershelping the cause are the costs which are spiralling downwards the rental for the modems have crashed to rs 100 a month and there are plenty of tariff plans on offer starting with a mere rs 250 a monthwith broadband enabling the internetvoice dual play people do not mind shelling the extra buck as it helps them use the telephone even while surfing the internetsays prem pradeep airtel broadband ceo karnataka the consumer profile has changed from corporates it has now come down to residential areas and they will form a huge chunk of our future businessbut broadband operators still need to address some issues i have had problems with faulty billing says binu thomas a user also operators frequently do not inform us about drop in tariffs and the fact that existing users can migrate to those new plans