Airtel Broadband Tariff Hike

[Rush]

A friend of mine tried to change his plan to one of the "Bonanza plans" (Mumbai circle) [in paritcular airtel Bonanza 22 GB]The customer care refused to do it saying there is no such plan! (In reference with any Bonanza plan , 8gb, 15gb and 22gb)Anyone else facing this issue ?

 

[xnyash]

scam airtel rules

 

[prasadkunala]

They are targeting the customers who are existing. so there the tarrif hike takes place.

 

[Sushubh]

They are still calling me to reactivate my discontinued Airtel Broadband connection. I get around a call per week. Freaking annoying.

 

[jaganm]

A few days ago, I got a SMS from Airtel that their broadband charges had been revised. They directed me to revision in broadband rental.

The funny thing is that they got my monthly bill amount wrong, I am on 1700 plan and they said that the charges are revised from 1900 to 2150.

Is this something that is valid or a prank by Airtel?

 

[Nadir Aslam]

Guys go with ACT and see the difference.

 

[hno3]

They had increased rates last year due to rise in costs and regulatory charges. I haven't received any such SMS yet. But as per the URL it seems like the increase would be for all not for some people. Did anyone here receive such SMS? Bharti's shares went down today after govt's cleared a proposal to allow 4G licence holders (Reliance's Infotel) to also offer voice calling services. Cellular operators are expecting tough competitions after reliance enters this market.Perhaps to counter that Bharti might have decided to squeeze more money from wired broadband subscribers. Recently, DoT proposed to increase the one time for ISPs to 15 crore but that has not been implemented yet. Increasing the prices before implementation would be wrong. Bharti Airtel earlier this month decided to buy out Alcatel-Lucent's stake in India JV. This might also be another reason for them to increase prices.

 

[dextermorgan]

When landing charges were reduced, there was talk about broadband being more affordable..but no charges were slashed. But ISPs are happy to increase costs citing increasing input costs.

 

[shravank30]

Reliance is in talk with Vendors for 4G enabled Routers and will give it at a nominal cost with every Broadband connection.Just like they did with their monsoon hungama scheme in mobile years back and broke the mobile price barrierYou can expect extremely aggressive pricing from them once they launch their service in the mid 2013 and Broadband prices will fall like 9 pins

 

[genie]

I got an SMS alert today....hiked from 1400 to 1475 :nonchalance: