Hi folks, for last few days I was going through all the major ISPs plans throughout India and rest of the countries and have found that in terms of FUP policy we do have no proper rules, as here everyone knows big ISPs(Airtel/TATA/Jio/BSNL) do 3.3TB of high speed cap whereas small ISPs(ACT, Excitel, SITI, YOU, Tikona) has no such cap(at least on paper). Now the thing is that many of us do use more than 3.3TB data in a month and if we hit the limit then there is almost no way to get more high speed data (here many people gonna tell that JioFier do have data sachet but its only 1TB for 199 but these kind of sachet not availabe for Airtel/TATA/BSNL so I don't considering it) and internet crawl with 64kbps/1mbps for the remaining month. At least they should increase the FUP limit or have a minimum throttling speed like 4/8mbps, right guys??
When these ISPs representatives sell their connection they say internet is unlimited and I personally know many non-techy people, friends ,family members who gets trapped in this unlimited scheme, they only realize when they hit the limit but there is no way to go back(change ISP) as they might have done a full 6/12 months recharge to get some discount or extra days.
For the small ISPs who do use upstream from these big players used to do malpractices also, if someone use tons of TBs in every month they use to reduce speed for the user by reducing the speed drastically at some point without declaring it in their T&C, or if there are many Data-Hoarders in their LCO network their network starts to get hang every now and then(have personal experience with Alliance broadband and WishNet for this issue). Many of these small players have different package of for different parts of India which is also unfair to me
I understand ISPs do these to discourage many people exploit internet by Data hoarding, Torrenting/large downloading, Video Streaming at high bitrates and transoceanic traffic volume and managing data-centers is extremely costly but it's their money so they can do this till it's not illegal or harmful to the national security, right? For these FUP limit many of us cann't do important works like backing up camera footage in drive which takes more than 3TB frequently or say downloading LLM models which may go few TBs also
The scenario for AirFiber(Airtel/Jio) is even worse as if someone do pay the same price of the broadband plan they only get 1TB of high-speed data, now I know that for FWA giving unlimited data is putting tons of load on already congested cell towers but hey this companies are giving unlimited data on mobile plans so why not for FWA plans? Isn't it a partiality?? Only BSNL is doing good here as their AirFiber plans and limits are same as their fiber ones
In other countries for most ISPs unlimited means unlimited but here they make rules as per their requirement/profit as our Hon'ble TRAI has no proper rules for FUP limit or what price to be taken for what speed
Correct and advise me guys if I'm wrong here as I'm little irritated here to think that these practices need to be changed once and for all
When these ISPs representatives sell their connection they say internet is unlimited and I personally know many non-techy people, friends ,family members who gets trapped in this unlimited scheme, they only realize when they hit the limit but there is no way to go back(change ISP) as they might have done a full 6/12 months recharge to get some discount or extra days.
For the small ISPs who do use upstream from these big players used to do malpractices also, if someone use tons of TBs in every month they use to reduce speed for the user by reducing the speed drastically at some point without declaring it in their T&C, or if there are many Data-Hoarders in their LCO network their network starts to get hang every now and then(have personal experience with Alliance broadband and WishNet for this issue). Many of these small players have different package of for different parts of India which is also unfair to me
I understand ISPs do these to discourage many people exploit internet by Data hoarding, Torrenting/large downloading, Video Streaming at high bitrates and transoceanic traffic volume and managing data-centers is extremely costly but it's their money so they can do this till it's not illegal or harmful to the national security, right? For these FUP limit many of us cann't do important works like backing up camera footage in drive which takes more than 3TB frequently or say downloading LLM models which may go few TBs also
The scenario for AirFiber(Airtel/Jio) is even worse as if someone do pay the same price of the broadband plan they only get 1TB of high-speed data, now I know that for FWA giving unlimited data is putting tons of load on already congested cell towers but hey this companies are giving unlimited data on mobile plans so why not for FWA plans? Isn't it a partiality?? Only BSNL is doing good here as their AirFiber plans and limits are same as their fiber ones
In other countries for most ISPs unlimited means unlimited but here they make rules as per their requirement/profit as our Hon'ble TRAI has no proper rules for FUP limit or what price to be taken for what speed
Correct and advise me guys if I'm wrong here as I'm little irritated here to think that these practices need to be changed once and for all
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