Airtel Management Guy: We 'do' alert people when they hit 80%

[LordSpymaster]

Alerts?What alerts?Oh you mean those annoying redirects I get after crossing my FUP limit? The same one that I get stupid texts and emails for repeatedly?Airtel, please kiss my a**.

 

[BBLover]

India is getting smarter.. In past we had Vishwa Bandhu Gupta discussing about Cloud Computing which MIT professor couldn't think of and Now another GENIUS K Srinivas, President (B2C) Airtel discussing about how Speed Costs in Internet.

Got to admire this guy's confidence! Irrespective of what he says there's a lesson to be learned here - with delivery like that, he could even sell an overpriced Airtel connection to a sane person. I found one of the comments on youtube interesting - the notion that this guy does know what he's talking about but resorts to distorted (but simpler) explanations so that illiterate / less-technically minded masses get what he's saying. IDK - that doesn't sound farfetched.

 

[Sushubh]

well he is a perfect candidate to join politics. he believes in stuff that does not exist. so i guess he can sell it too.

 

[hno3]

There are billions of dollars of investment going in.

Just by saying that he seems that he has justified charging Google/FB. He really doesn't clarify any of his statements or Airtel's business policies using statistics and numbers in details.

It seems that the only reason he gave this interview is because he wanted to nullify the effect that broadbandforum.co has had on Airtel's users and to be users. Him giving justification for "speed does cost and data does not" even when he was not asked that question, goes to show that he has been reading BBF.in and especially MC's posts here.

We should understand that this interview was not meant for ppl like us who have been criticizing Airtel on technical grounds. It is just a marketing strategy from preventing to-be-customers from running away from Airtel by reading comments on BBF.in.

Kudos to BBF users for making Airtel do this. This goes to say that ppl are listening to you and making decisions based on other user experiences.

We just need to continue what we are doing.

Please remember that criticizing Airtel on technical/logical grounds has made them respond. Blind criticism won't help.

 

[Sushubh]

yeap. his statement clearly states that they have been checking out statements highlighted by mathew and this forum. i do not think there is anyone else taking on airtel for charging different prices for the same data at different speeds. we are probably the only one. his statement also states something very worrying. airtel claims that higher speeds costs more money. but the logic indicated is that higher speeds mean more network congestion so they have to invest in better infrastructure. so basically... technically they are wrong. higher speeds do not cost them more money. they are justifying the need to upgrade their network as the basis of charging more for higher speeds. it sounds like toll taxes on newly created highways... airtel should not be using their landline and broadband customers as the cash cow to fund their loss making adventures in the african market. just like government should not charge us for creating infrastructure because we already pay taxes for the same reason. his statements are also very worrying. there was no indication that they are taking wired broadband market seriously enough. they seem to be totally focused on 3G/LTE... the kind of investments they are making in these markets for little spectrum... seems insane. i mean wireless has a major issue. you have a limited spectrum. higher prices means fewer customers means less profits. lower prices means more customers means congested networks means quality goes down. they cannot just ignore the wired broadband market. they need to use it to complement their wireless services. sadly they are totally missing out on this element. i am not a fan of reliance. but i really wish mukesh ambani kicks their arse when he launches his LTE service.

 

[agantuk]

That thing about pipes blew my mind off. This guy should be sitting on the panel for anything related to fiber. AT&T and Verizon are missing out on the services of this brilliant chap - with him they (AT&T in particular) would have even more reason to contest the deployment of fiber

 

[Mr.Outlaw]

BB users are much more in comparison to 3G/LTE so investing in BB(like the thing google's doing) would be better for Airtel than doing all this mellow drama and defending themselves without proper answers too.He should have talked exactly how speed costs for the BB user and not just put in that statement.

 

[Sushubh]

That thing about pipes blew my mind off. This guy should be sitting on the panel for anything related to fiber. AT&T and Verizon are missing out on the services of this brilliant chap - with him they (AT&T in particular) would have even more reason to contest the deployment of fiber

exactly.

In the western world, when they wanted to put up hotspots, they just walked into a place and it was fibred.

this statement made be pretty angry. airtel is in the business of creating network. it is their duty to create a network. no one else is going to do it for them. this guy is behaving like he represents a company that uses network powered by others to profit from his business.

 

[agantuk]

That hotspot statement had the Vishwabandhu stamp all over it. At the end of the interview I wasn't even sure he was talking about anything at all. Was he defending their tariffs? Was he suggesting that they wanted to increase the prices? Was he hinting at 'cuts' from Google or Facebook? Was he talking about the social service they are (not interested in) doing by way of setting up a network? It all looked like one of those aimless talks, and that isn't something one would want to associate with a top executive for any company. This guy is head of B2C, I wonder if for him it stands for 'Bharti 2 chutiya'

 

[Sushubh]

the more i think about it, the more it looks like airtel used medianama for this interview. and medianama took the bait and did what airtel wanted them to do. hno3 is right above. it was a very strategical interview given by airtel. where they actually gave out nothing but bullshit.