Airtel Broadband Fair Usage Policy

[kckinn]

Hey dips0502 everyone is sick of Airtel.

I think the only two ways we can take this forward, is by giving Airtel very bad publicity and/or by discontinuing its services if you have a other ISP in your area like BSNL providing good service.

I personally believe, on the front of giving bad publicity and creating awareness among net users we are not having much success. We have so few signatories on the Airtel Broadband “Fair Usage Policy” Protest Petition page.

I hope people who are having some correspondence with TRAI / DOT get a favourable response.

 

[Crazysah]

Yep. I just signed the petition!

 

[dishwara]

When i asked airtel they said its a rule from TRAI. When i asked about the amendment/act no they refuse to give, saying they don't have to tell it. If i needed act no. , i have to contact TRAI. Is that correct. someone know tell. If not then area manager shahid is going to face problems.

 

[kckinn]

When i asked airtel they said its a rule from TRAI. When i asked about the amendment/act no they refuse to give, saying they don't have to tell it. If i needed act no. , i have to contact TRAI. Is that correct. someone know tell. If not then area manager shahid is going to face problems.

WTF :frown:!! This move is not approved by TRAI.
Just send a mail to customer care and tell them that you spoke with someone and mention the time. Write in the mail that they said AFUP is approved by TRAI and mention that they refused to give the notification no. And most improtantly tell them you want a response by e-mail and not by telephone and they will be screwed and they will backtrack on the TRAI approval thing.

In a e-mail response they will dare not mention anything wrong as email correspondece is legal. They can be sued if they mention TRAI approval in the e-mail.

 

[Checksum]

I'm going to wait till Tuesday. After that I'm changing. I've had enough of this crap.

 

[sumi0x]

total bullshit from airtel!! they are providing unlimited connection for very high price !! I am stuck right now ! dont know which service provider to choose .

 

[akg7091]

I will wait till one month. If Airtel doesn't change the policy, I will apply for a BSNL connection and the day it is activated will surrender my Airtel connection forever

 

[kckinn]

I am also applying for BSNL this monday, and whenever I get the connection from BSNL I will kick Airtel.

 

[rpm19050]

To clear any confusion regarding the ultimate data transfer amount that Airtel will provide with AFUP, I have created a Google Docs spreadsheet for both Home and Business plans. All information were gleaned from BlackScorpions's post in this thread.

I started this as a way to understand AFUP limits and also as a way to try my hand in google docs. I don't know if this is going to be useful to anyone. If you can tell me how, I can give view/edit permission to people here.
Here's a screenshot:


Let me know if there's any corrections necessary.

please add upload data to the transfer. they are most probably considering uploads as well in the limits.

 

[blr_p]

They havnt mentioned the words "Airtel Fair Usage Policy", ...a very small number of customers use an excessive amount of bandwidth, then they go on to say how they r making minor changes to prevent this...In their modified structure they have mentioned download speed before threshold - 1 mbps ; after threshold - 512 kbps ; but the pigs have not mentioned what the bloody heck is the threshold ??

They call this "speed rationalization".

Haha, does this mean they are watching us and hastily decided to call it something else. Why the hesitancy with calling it what it is ?

If there is too much resistance this 'rationalisation' will suddenly vanish and they have not said a thing either way

Websites can be scrubbed at anytime but coming out and saying it in a letter otoh....

wonder if the petition merits mentioning other euphemisms for AFUP ?

In a e-mail response they will dare not mention anything wrong as email correspondece is legal. They can be sued if they mention TRAI approval in the e-mail.

OK, what if you told them you were recording the conversation for 'quality purposes'. Not sure how it works here but depending on the state, if you don't inform them then its invalid whereas in other areas, this is not a requirement.

I personally believe, on the front of giving bad publicity and creating awareness among net users we are not having much success. We have so few signatories on the Airtel Broadband “Fair Usage Policy” Protest Petition page.
It will take time to sink in, also i think they are being selective where to 'rationalise', doing it gradually.

It's all very underhand isn't it.