Airtel Broadband is a freaking joke

These plans are being offered to customer as: “Airtel Launches New Value for Money Broadband Plans”

Airtel Broadband is a freaking joke...

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Here is how the mail ends:

Your delight has always been our main area of focus. We aim for the highest standards in our service and constantly strive to provide better offers to you.

Airtel Broadband Service’s ongoing effort is to provide you the fastest and most reliable internet speeds available. Airtel now launches New Plans with greater speed to enable you to download your favorite music, videos, and files faster than ever before.

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As per RTI information from TRAI, FUP is ILLEGAL. There is NO provision in TRAI that speaks of FUP. The logical case is to file a petition in TRAI and ask them to enforce it's own provisions. I don't have time at present but can guide anyone who needs that help to pursue it.

Is there a provision in TRAI that stops the ISPs from offering plans that have variable speed as long as they are above 256kbps?

BSNL's 2mbit/s "unlimited" plan is exactly the same price http://bsnl.co.in/service/new_BB/BB_home_only_unl... HOWEVER, I think the UL1350 plan is better value for money because it is 512kbit/s after the FUP is reached, and only Rs50 more than Airtel's equivalent plan.

Personally, I think all plans with FUPs (more the lower-end ones than the 25+GB ones) should be advertised as 256kbit/s with a temporary speed boost to 1, 2 or 4 mbit/s.

airtel is past the logical boundaries with their terminology...

they have a totally different definition of unlimited in most cases.

and they have a very different way of representing things. like this particular case.

The joke keeps getting funnier with every passing week. Airtel should just declare that they have no such thing as an unlimited plan. They claim "DSL usage = unlimited" and then in next line there is the FUP limit. WTF? And who will bell the cat?

well this is till technically unlimited. their mobile internet and unlimited SMS pack is not unlimited from ANY ANGLE!