The Ridiculous Airtel Broadband Plans

[5381357]

256Kbps is still defined as broadband in India according to the policy of TRAI, so the ISPs have to provide minimum 256Kbps to be called as broadband, they can't break the government rules and just call it as broadband otherwise below 256Kbps it should be called as dial up airtel, US has implemented 2Mbps as minimum broadband speed, whereas most european nations koreans and japanese nations have implemented 12Mbps minimum to be called as true broadband internet, they should atleast make 1Mbps minimum in India to be called as broadband, lower than that narrowband or whatever, but when will airtel and other ISPs really learn and wake up, only God knows that, only if airtel remove their FUP then we can say that airtel is a true broadband provider.

 

[Sushubh]

It is supposed to be 512kbps now. It's not enforced but the definition has been updated on paper.

 

[sa_kiran]

Yes, 256 Kbps is a broadband speed because of absurd policies of TRAI/govt. Who influences/lobbies for such policies? The likes of airtel.

 

[moindear]

I think from now on we should not have any expectations from Airtel, I think the plans will worsen in future.Its better we look for other options...

 

[5381357]

Other options like? only beam provides some good plans in India but it's only in hyderabad, others ISPs all implement FUP in their plans, no truly unlimited high speed plans as of now in India, maybe in 2020 we can see some better plans or maybe even 2050 when we are like 60years old grandpa hehe.

 

[agantuk]

The Electric plans have been aptly named. Just looking at the plans gave me a shock

 

[5381357]

I am imagining how would anyone feel to coming from 16Mbps to 512Kbps directly, 75times the less speed, it gave me a shock just by imagining, it's given the perfect name Electric, Electric current shock.

 

[Deleted member 13033]

The Electric plans have been aptly named. Just looking at the plans gave me a shock

Ditto !

 

[Toocool]

Yes, 256 Kbps is a broadband speed because of absurd policies of TRAI/govt. Who influences/lobbies for such policies? The likes of airtel.


yup they pay to trai officials unofficially:sniper: so that they can juice out the consumer for the extended periods of time.

i still remember when reliance cdma was new and all other mobile players refused connectivity to reliance over some issues.............pramod mahajan cut off all mobile connectivity with mtnl and bsnl and all mobile operator were forced to agree with mahajan within 3-4 hours .........it was not legal in any sense of the word but still happened because he was an agent of ambani's .

corruption is the root cause of almost every ****ing issue.:worthy:

 

[naveen_reloaded]

As i said earlier , If you have other ISP in your place , Close your eyes and switch to other ISP , just to show you are not going to buy into those absurd plans. @abhijit88Even 64kbps will also connect you to internet , will you happy they set that speed post FUP ?As one member noted , We all thought , we will get cheaper , faster internet as years go by , but looking at things , even maintaining the status quo can become something of a dream itseems. The more Airtel is alive , more our internet is going to deteriorate.