Airtel Broadband Fair Usage Policy

[Motorazor143]

this thread is really heating up.I guess the message is clear to airtel that Customer's are not gonna let it shoved on them simply like that.It would have further icreased the noise if there was any media attention given to this but i highly doubt whether any news channel in India would make this as an issue..It would have been really interesting if this matter would have been forced to Consumer court.I'm noticing that airtel has removed their fair fucckin policy on some circles.Let's wait and steal the fun.

 

[rpm19050]

i raised a complaint with CC, just to make it get across as a proper communication. he was repeating again and again tht it is a trai guideline. i told him, it' a comment from your side to a trai consultation paper, not a guideline from them. if it was, every isp would have done it. if someone has media contacts, " airtel stifles broadband speeds" would make a nice article. and you bet airtel will take notice.

 

[kalpik]

+1 get it out in the media..

 

[warthog]

1)online petition dont do squat as it is not even legal notice2)all isps are doing it in US,UK,Europe,Australia so there is no point of fighting themthe only legal stuff that we have is that for 384k and 256k plan users.TRAI guidelines for a broadband connection is an always on 256k connection so if airtel reduced the speed of these 2 plans then they have violated the guidelines in which they can be held liable.REmember ranting on forums wont solve anything,even if you protest in the real world wont solve anything.This is what i was shouting ever since i joined this site.This is all being done for a new net "internet 2" where only handful of sites are there.NO longer will you have your own site but a semi site eg myspace\your page. and in the future you will need id to post and all dissent and anti establishment sites wont be allowed.bye bye freedom.you should seriously look at BBS and Fidonet(pre www tech) as they will be the future.

 

[genexed]

Its clear from below link that airtel/sify only gave suggestion of fair usage policy received on 11th Feb. 2009. Now I don't see anywhere on trai site that it has been accepted or made a trai recommendation.

TRAI :::::::

Get it in written from airtel thru email or wtever that this is trai recommendation as they have been saying. Take the copy to trai and ask when did trai gave that recommendation.


Guys they can be charged for fraud if they call their own policy as trai recommendations. This is very serious allegation and im sure trai won't like that either.


Another thing -- below is the sify suggestion to trai

Another area which the Regulator would need to work is in
the Fair Usage Policy. Our internal study indicates that the Top 20% of the
users consume 80% of the bandwidth (OFCOM indicates top 10% of the
customers consume more than twice the bandwidth consumed by the rest 90%
of the customers). It would be prudent for the service providers to have a fair
use policy, especially in the unlimited category where the customer can be
restricted on the download speed once a threshold is reached. This will enable
all the Broadband Users to have an equitable access to the broadband capacity
and improve quality of experience in general to all the users.

They're making it sound as if those 10% eat so much that the rest 90% cant get enough. This is not true. if a user only wants to use 1 hr in a month how can other user who uses 24 hrs a day can be held responsible for that? Someone here pls explain me the logic.

 

[genexed]

This is the most rediculous thing I have heard. How to get numbers from scanned ips ? why would they listen to us and get their bb d/c, as 90% of the users dont even cross that limit? so how does it matter to them ?? how will they manage without internet? what if airtel doesnt cares whos getting d/c and why? have u d/c ur airtel conenction to start with? blahhhh

 

[haider_up32]

of course dats a ridiculous idea

---------- Post added at 11:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:44 PM ----------

- with 128kbps UL almost everyone crosses the 10gb limit ...almost everyone uses bittorrent these days

-airtel is the company who should care the most when people are disconnecting ...unlike BSNL

- Airtel FUP is not for UPE dats why i m not disconnecting

 

[cln.1947]

Airtel is plainly cheating by introducing the so-called "Fair Use Policy" which is actually nothing but unfairness being dished out to their unlimited plan subscribers. This sort of high handedness requires immediate drastic action. Friends, let us all terminate our subscription for broadband with Airtel forthwith. Don't hesitate. Act now.

 

[Motorazor143]

I just don't understand one thing..If a customer is paying for an Unlimited connection then airtel should assume that he is gonna download really hard and they should support the infrastructure for it.Come on!!! that's what he is paying for..Now what's the point in capping everyone's bandwidth by claiming that's it's unfair.What does airtel expect then? people should take Unlimited plan's and download 5 GB a month uh?It's simply cheating..They don't wanna pay for the bandwidth.This news should be bought to the notice of TRAI and once try tag it as illegal then we can move it to media.:madness:Airtel has to be sued for sure..If they get away with this then every other ISP's would adopt this policy.

 

[WizZ]

People, just unite and file a petition .... airtel has no such right of fair usage policy. We should teach them what is Unlimited. and what are the speeds that we pay for1!!!