Saturday, March 28, 2009

Limited is the new unlimited

About a month back one of my friends got a call from Airtel customer care. It was to inform him that he has exceeded the download limit on his unlimited Airtel broadband plan and the download speed will be reduced to half the speed of his plan. Now wait a minute, what the hell is going on. That's right limit on unlimited.

The fact is that Airtel has put a download cap on users of unlimited data plans citing "fair use policy". This applies to all existing users since they would have signed Airtel's terms and conditions before taking the connection. After reaching the data cap download speed will be halved. On a 256 Kbps unlimited (oops T&C apply) connection the cap is 15GB(download cap varies with plan) after which speed is reduced to 128 Kbps. This is not new in the US, but Airtel is the first to implement it in India. This may influence other broadband operators in India to implement similar caps on their plans.

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2 comments:

  1. UdayMarch 29, 2009 at 8:51 PM

    Read a similar post on gigaom a couple of days back. The stupidity of networks have no bounds.. Hope BSNL will give run for their money without putting all these caps on their broadband connection.

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