Airtel's FAQ for Fair Usage Policy

[akshay12]

well most like me will switch ! i dont regret it a bit, bsnl is doing fine for me no downtime in 1 week since getting it .

 

[Sushubh]

the problem only begins when the connection goes down. and when it does, you are going to realize that bsnl is no airtel.

 

[akshay12]

well i really wanna check that too . Airtel usually takes 2 days for me lets see what bsnl takes . I hope they prove us wrong in my area atleast.

 

[iChaitanya]

LOL, WTF is this new shit now?

 

[mgcarley]

I may do a blog writeup about this (partially because @admin has asked me to and partially because most of this is ridiculous).

I can see how they think it looks like they're being more generous than before with the new plans, but they are advertising it wrong.

Old plan: 512kbit/s for first 100GBs, then down to 256kbit/s
New plan: 1mbit/s for first 25GBs, then change back to 512kbit/s

These plans should NOT, I repeat, SHOULD NOT be advertised as a 1mbit/s plan. It should be advertised like it is: as a 512kbit/s plan with a temporary speed boost.

 

[Sushubh]

These plans should NOT, I repeat, SHOULD NOT be advertised as a 1mbit/s plan. It should be advertised like it is: as a 512kbit/s plan with a temporary speed boost.

that's what common sense states. sort of in shortage in india.

 

[mgcarley]

that's what common sense states. sort of in shortage in india.

Hmm. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not necessarily the fact that these plans have FUPs - it's that they are advertised as "unlimited" at a particular speed which is nothing short of false. They wouldn't get away with it in NZ (or Aussie or the USA) - they'd be sued in to oblivion.

 

[iChaitanya]

Hmm. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not necessarily the fact that these plans have FUPs - it's that they are advertised as "unlimited" at a particular speed which is nothing short of false. They wouldn't get away with it in NZ (or Aussie or the USA) - they'd be sued in to oblivion.
I guess living in India has it's own benefits - these corps can get away with almost anything without giving a ****.

 

[Sushubh]

mobile number portability is such a good example of that!

 

[scrooge]

mmm...The policy says - A majority of the users do not exceed the download limits as set in their plans and should not expect to receive such alerts as a norm.When if the majority of the users do not exceed the limit, why have these limits at all and give mental trauma to everyone. Just get rid of the all these users. But then if they start doing that, they will have no business because of the impractical FUP limits