Airtel Broadband: From must get to must avoid

I have been a big fan of Airtel Broadband services for years now. It was the first ISP I truly liked after struggling with cable internet service providers. And it was the reason I migrated from Chandigarh to Gurgaon. Sify Broadband was a pain to deal with and Airtel was almost magical in comparison.

Things have however changed a lot in the last couple of months. The introduction of Fair Usage Policy has pretty much resulted in disappearance of all the goodwill generated by the its customer base for the company.

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256kbps is the new face of Airtel Broadband #airtelsucks

When TRAI announced that 256kbps is to be provided as the minimum guaranteed speed in the name of broadband, they would not have imagined what Airtel Broadband would do with that stipulation.

It took them a while to realize how they can misuse the power given to them by TRAI. But they have eventually taken the steps to ensure their demise as the best ISP in the Indian market.

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Airtel Presence is the place to complain coz Airtel Customer Care is useless

I am not sure if you have tried calling the Airtel Customer Care numbers in the recent days.

My attempts 2 days ago were quite painful. It took me 10 minutes of waiting to get some guy on the other side and as soon as the other side picks up the phone, the connection simply disconnects.

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Airtel Broadband going against network neutrality with IPL streaming on YouTube?

You might have heard this already. Airtel Broadband is the official broadband sponsor of the YouTube streaming of the Indian Premier League matches.

The company is offering free 2mbps streaming for all their customers on the IPL channel on YouTube.

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