Airtel Broadband Fair Usage Policy

[Ankur Gupta]

I am sure ISPs must have forced TRAI to implement this, so as to force customers to shell out more to upgrade to a higher plan.Need a 512k UL plan, get a 1mbps UL one :wall:

 

[amish]

they are importing rules and regulations from abroad minus their speeds and download limits..

Many ISP's in developed countries abroad do have this "fair usage" clause in their unltd. plan contracts..but they offer multi-megabit speeds and decent/reasonable download limits after which this policy kicks in and reduces the speed of unltd plans..

why is TRAI implementing this on bullock cart speed plans is anybody's guess

LOL @ bullock cart speed plans!!


abt importing policies, remember USA is consumer friendly country. consumer is given first priority/consideration.

in India, its opposite. rich companies decide what they want and with political influence get things going.

 

[warthog]

i told you all guys about net being slowly shutting down to a cable tv like system.

now you believe me?
www.savetheinternet.com

 

[cyberwiz]

@ amish.. well its not a new term in the broadband sector as i have mentioned before but for applying this over here we first need a proper broadband sector to exist in the first place

here's more abt fair usage in UK

Fair Usage Broadband - is it really fair?

 

[Sushubh]

fair usage sounds good if they are being fair to us

Airtel Narrow Mind Broadband | Facebook

the obligatory protest group against airtel broadband. now running

 

[warthog]

wow soo quick!.hey admin change all forum names to isp narrow band

 

[essbebe]

I had a NU 256Kbps and my usage was not metered.Now when I updated to same NU @2Mbps, the usagewas metered leading to confusion.After i contactedNodal Nu 0900PM to 0800AM at @2mbps is not metered.Bangalore CC called me and said it is a simple matterand may be set the counter not to record during NU. I wonder , whether they could be recording it now, and very unlikely.Record unlimited usage, take print out, analyse the dataand then setting limit seems far fetched.I think U/L users need not worry.Till date , Airtel has not changed the usage conditionsof EXISTING customers. Very few are getting NU ,that too at@2Mbps now.

 

[Sushubh]

would break a lot of links. this is going to be bad. i am going ditch everything remotely related to airtel.

 

[amish]

nice name of facebook group@cyberwiz, actually i didnt mean that i didnt know the term. what i meant is TRAI brings out new terms in regulation book. kind of like slumdog, bailout, these terms are becoming famous.

 

[warthog]

hey its worldwide
MediaPost Publications More Cable Companies Impose Bandwidth Caps 02/05/2009

More broadband users will soon face measures that could crimp their ability to watch online video or engage in other bandwidth-intensive activities.
Charter Communications confirmed Wednesday that it will impose new bandwidth caps on subscribers. In addition, Time Warner, which is currently testing a pay-per-download plan in Beaumont, Texas, said Wednesday it intends to expand that test soon to four additional cities.






its internet 2.I WAS RIGHT DAMMIT