Airtel Broadband 16 mbps plan SUCKS

[iChaitanya]

Well, what do we have here? Yet another EPIC FAIL.

 

[Sushubh]

airtel is the new definition of failure.

 

[Raditz]

Seems like all those high-profile MBA skools are messing up ppls brains these days. Even a novice broadband enthusiast would be able to manage better. Something like 2mbps UL for the same price would've been the intelligent thing to come up with.

 

[Sushubh]

yeap. if they can give 1mbps UL for 2222 they should be able to give away 2 mbps UL for less than 4000 bucks.

 

[xotiq]

Airtel / Tata / Reliance......., all of them have UL plans, and if you are a heavy user......then all 3 of them behave the same. :frown:

 

[netant]

airtel is the new definition of failure.

jai ho :thumbsup:

 

[asifnasar]

plans are not good but atleast we can say that we also have ultra high speed internet in our country.

 

[yjagota]

Ultra high? No bro. Ultra high is something different.You get ultra high speeds in excess of 40Mb in Korea, Japan and Sweden (used by normal home consumers). Although 16Mb is also good, but the pricing is really stiff in India. The greatest reason for this problem is penetration. India has hardly 0.72% of penetration as of Dec'08 (this was 0.2%~ in June'07, so the growth is atleast good). Penetration increases, prices will come down. Penetration in all three above countries is above 20%!!But still, I don't blame Airtel or any ISP now (I used to. Stopped since my closest friend joined Airtel ) as I have seen how much expenses they have to incur on a small number of broadband subscribers when they increase their bandwidth.Nobody is at fault. But nobody is taking the initiative either. So, days of dreaming of a 16Mb unlimited at 2k are very far. Years maybe.

 

[WizZ]

its true they have to incur heavy expenses when it comes to increasing speed.. but they are all one time charges . If their services is good and unlimited or decent enough , they'll cover those charges in no time... Main problem here in India is Corruption and Carptel. Airtel Introduced FUP and then all coppied, Insted of expanding and pentrating India , they are on the verge of enraging the customers and loosing them thus killing broadband in INDIA.

 

[yjagota]

Yup. You are right. The charges are only one time, but managing the bandwidth does take some expense too.Its simple maths like this. They keep charges for a plan like this: 16Mb @ 5k for 50GB cap. They get only 100 customers. They make it 16Mb @ 2k for unlimited, they get 1000 customers. So actually lower prices are beneficial to the ISPs, expense or not.But I don't know who makes these plans. I don't hate capping, but atleast it must be sensible. For 16Mb, the cap should be atleast 100Gb.