An Open Letter to MTNL

[kreacher10]

Although I was against Airtel's FUP, what I've seen in countries I've stayed outside of India are ridiculously high caps (which one might not even hit), and reasonably priced broadband, in terms with the cost of living of those states.

50-100 GB caps are common abroad, aren't they?

What is the view of the local users there? It might be high caps for you but to them it could be too low

 

[rj27]

rightly said ! Bandwidth is charged as high 100rs. - 20,000/Gb while petrol is still 65/litre and both will last same amount of mins. if they are used on high speeds

 

[Sushubh]

petrol is STILL 65/liter? still? i remember the times petrol was sold for less than 20 bucks a liter. and i am just 29.

 

[kreacher10]

As mgcarley has posted on another thread, 2 Mbps with no caps for 1000 Rs/mo won't cover their wholesale procurement costs. So I guess that gets thrown out of the window.

I wish to see true broadband (with reasonable caps of around 50GB-100GB or so), that should be fine. Or just a slowing down to half the speed once the cap is reached.


Reminds me of the time in 1996+ when all the mobile service providers (there were very few then) used to cry loudly about what 'high rates' they pay hence high charges to users AND laughing all the way to the bank :hysterical: I know this as my ex colleagues were working in those companies.

 

[Sushubh]

airtel reported solid drops in profits in the recent quarter. but it was largely due to the spending on branding change and expansion in africa. not because they are losing money on broadband or mobile services in india

 

[rj27]

they have spent some 300 crores on re-branding, have they even spent 25 % of that amount on bandwidth(providing extra Gbs to the consumers) half of their negativity would have been gone. The broadband business negativity will certainly take their all brands image for a ride if they don't realize it very soon or they start owning every social media & censor everything !

 

[kreacher10]

So that doesn't makes the broadband providing companies abroad a Holy Cow ! Almost in every part of the world broadband is considered as a highly milking sector, isn't it ?


Wrong there buddy. In many countries like the Scandinavian countries or korea etc their B'band is way faster than what we can imagine & they don't have FUP's. FUP's is a relatively new phenomenon from USA where these companies r big lootere's

 

[rj27]

Wrong there buddy. In many countries like the Scandinavian countries or korea etc their B'band is way faster than what we can imagine & they don't have FUP's. FUP's is a relatively new phenomenon from USA where these companies r big lootere's

I'm aware of that. Infact most Europian countries have better situation. But there are almost other hundred countries too where it is still considered as a luxury & u have to pay the price for the same inspite of enough International BW supply & low per Gb/ operational cost.

So my remark was general in sense.

 

[kreacher10]

The problem here is that people just don't care about trivial things like Broadband. Majority of the public are satisfied using crappy EDGE services on their cell phones. Only a small percentage of the population have Internet awareness unlike the USA, or any other European country for that matter. Since people are not aware, ISP's try to rip them off by selling slow 256 kbps plans with 'unlimited' usage.
In short we're being milked even harder than the rest of the world (except maybe Africa?)

MOst of these companies fails to upgrade their own backbone infrastructure to maintain the high load from increased broadband speeds, then they blame the customers for slowdown.

In stead of FUPing all the customers why don't they do it with individual customers ( if the reason behind this is cost/GB related), where someone is using too many GBs in a low priced plan.

& - if it is required because of slow down of traffic in certain areas then why not put more POPs in that particular areas & increase backhaul bandwidth capacity to neutrilise the effect.


Agree 100%

 

[gadgetcrazy]

I know this is offtopic. How can I lodge a complaint for landline / triband from a mobile phone. My landline is dead so I can't dial 1500/ 1504. Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk