Airtel Acting Stupid??Increase In Unlimited Plan Rates And Speed Caps

Things are not going too well for Airtel now a days!!Atleast after they announced their new set of plans which has caused a major protest by all airtel broadband users in India . And why not?? If Airtel being such a reputed ISP known for quality and customer service does something as ridiculous as this then definetly this is something that is to be expected . Airtel has done 2 blunders at one go . Firstly they revised their Unlimited Plan Rates i.e. not decreased the rates but increased them and secondly they have introduced a speed cap where speeds are reduced after you cross a certain quota of usage.

First Blunder : Increased Rate For Unlimited Plans

As mentioned earlier Airtel Has increased the rate for their Unlimited Plans.Firstly , Airtel has removed all other Unlimited plans except the 256kbps and 384kbps unlimited plans.

256kbps unlimited plan was first Rs 799 per month and now it costs Rs 899 per month
384kbps unlimited plan was first Rs 999 per month and now it costs Rs 1199 per month

So definetly an increase in the prices and no more 512kbps and 1mbps unlimited plans!!:(


Second Blunder : Speed Caps

This is the second blunder and by far the biggest . I mean first of all unlimited plans have such low download/upload speeds and now they decide to limit that as well. Yes thats true , the moment you reach a certain quota you find a speed limitation . Like this :

For the Rs999 plan - 384kbps UNLIMITED plan

Download Speed Till 25GB usage - 384kbps
Download Speed After 25GB usage - 256kbps

So as you can see , after you cross the 25GB limit your speed reduces by 128kbps and becomes 256kbps , what the hell is that??

My Impressions :
Well i think its clear that everyone including me is pretty upset with what Airtel has done . Both their decisions are ridiculous!!This is a major set back as now other ISP's like BSNL would also want to increase their rates this could lead to a major drawback for broadband development in India . India is already lagging way behind when it comes to broadband speeds. Other countries have way better speeds at a much better price . So this is definetly not done!!
I really hope Airtel does something about this!!I'm sure they should be knowing by now that their customers are mad at them!!!So spread the word the more the people protest the faster airtel will respond!!Cheers..