Airtel Broadband Fair Usage Policy

[vishalrao]

Sunny93 is an Airtel employee with a very narrow mind... but then, I too feel it is "fair" enough. I don't agree that everybody downloading 100gb is a pirate though. If you think FUP is not fair... then even the normal plans are not fair... its not fair that I pay Rs 1500 for 512kbps UL, i should be getting 10 times the speed for the same price with UL...

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Note the only reason I think its fair is because its not a cap and its still UL... only the speed is reduced to half when you cross the "limit", on a 1 mbps plan I can still download 100 gb in 1 week to 10 days, then in the remaining 3 weeks or so I can download another 150 gb for a total of 250 gb in a month (rough calculations)... more than enough for me FOR NOW. when the time comes that lots of media hungry services are popular then maybe this fair thing will no longer be fair

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What pisses me off is that the ISPs are already doing this Fair Usage limits... so why not make the speed itself unlimited??? Like they can give you 16 mbps and keep the 100 gb crossover limit, when the speed goes down to say 2 mbps then keep a hard limit of 250 gb after which the speed crawls at 256 kbps (minimum broadband definition).

It makes NO DIFFERENCE to the ISP cost wise, they can give the added speed for "free" (same price) to us and the data traffic is still maintained at their own so-called fair levels...

Shame on the greedy narrow minded ISPs and Govt policy makers...

 

[rachit_1804]

its not about the limit being fair. when the plan is unltd, having FUP itself is unfair.now this is how it starts. we all first agree that there CAN be a cap on an unltd plan. then they will force even lower caps down our throat.the same thing that they are doing with credit cards. first they gave us all free credit cards (without any yearly charge. some people paid for it but most of the people had it for free) now they are talking about introducing a yearly charge. first get us hooked to it & then force something like this down our throat.once FUP's are implemented by all ISP's, they arent going anywhere. they are here for at least a long long time...

 

[Sunny93]

Sunny93 is an Airtel employee with a very narrow mind...

What the hell makes you think that? Please refrain from posting idiotic stuff.
If you don't know something that it's better to STFU!

You guys here are talking about Steam and EA,but tell me how many of you use those services? Linux Distros? Who downloads 100 GB of Linux distros?

Let's face the truth....we need 1Mbps connections to pirate stuff.

It's easy to bash me by telling about online services but how many of us use them here in India?

@Vishalrao,Do you ,yourself use those services?

 

[kreacher]

^ I use Steam, I have bought games off it (including orange box). Also if you play games you need to update them with huge patches, not to mention updating your OS.Multi-player games also take up bandwidth, so does streaming audio (last.fm) / video (gametrailers.com).Even after all this I might not cross 100GB but why should the ISP limit my speed when my account is unlimited.

 

[Sunny93]

See, I'm not supporting Airtel with this FUP and all. I said it's just fine for me. FUP is just a check on piracy IMO. Reduce piracy and we may see a lot of pressure on ISPs to lift FUPs.@Kreacher,Game patches are about 100-200MB and even after all the patching, you use up just 2-3 GBs/month. Same with Windows update. They aren't really huge. Even after all multiplayer gaming and streaming you might not cross even 50GB/month. But yeah you're right ....why do they have to restrict us in the first place?For me with 1Mbps and 100 GB it's pretty much fine but for 128Kbps or 384 Kbps users it's hell. 512Kbps users also get 100GB. I don't think a 512Kbps user crosses 100GB per month.@Vishalrao,Did I seem to support Airtel in my post? I said it's fine for me. Maybe not for others.

 

[Sushubh]

i can personally easily 'survive' in the 100GB limit that is applicable on my connection. but that does not mean i am ok with the FUP that has been applied by airtel. i am still running the protest against the company. if i am going for an unlimited connection i expect the connectivity to be free of any 'conditions'.

 

[TheSilentShadow]

i can personally easily 'survive' in the 100GB limit that is applicable on my connection.

but that does not mean i am ok with the Fair Usage Policy that has been applied by airtel.

i am still running the protest against the company.

if i am going for an unlimited connection i expect the connectivity to be free of any 'conditions'.

Exactly

It isn't that users will necessarily cross the 100gb limit, it's just the whole idea of applying a cap to an "unlimited plan" that is so inherently idiotic.

 

[vishalrao]

@sunny: no i just get suspicious when strange new people on the forum post good stuff about an ISP i also think there should be no FUP for current plans/rates (like 1 mbps UL for rs 2000) but in order for the ISPs to give me very high speeds (like 10 mbps) at affordable rates (rs 1500) i am willing to accept a FUP...my current usage is around 50gb or so per month, and i hardly do media intensive stuff like downloading videos/youtube etc coz 512kbps is too slow for me...

 

[Sunny93]

Oh,so you mistook me for some spambot?

 

[vishalrao]

not "spambot", i like to use the term "marketroid"