Airtel
Airtel Broadband

Hey

The airtel broadband services offers plans which have a limited download. This limited download is justified on the basis of a 'fair usage policy', something they claim is implemented throughout the world. However, airtel fails to justify what in reality is fair usage policy. I have lived in the Uk, US and Canada in the past 7 years and the fair usage policy which is implemented there is substantially different from the one which is implemented here. The internet companies abroad provides what Fair usage policy and only implement it on individual basis when the particular user downloads something illegal or pirated such as movies, music on torrents or uploads something illegal.

An example of such fair usage policy can be found on the o2 website (an ISP in london)

Here is the link to the site. http://www.o2.co.uk/assets2/pdf/O2_Broadband_Fair_Use_Policy_06_09_10.pdf.

Point 1 of the PDF clearly provides that when FUP will be implemented and broadly covers the cases when the user indulges in illegal activities and not lawful downloading or streaming.

However, in India, airtel slows down the speeds irrespective and even if you stream or download music legally the download speed is reduced considerably after the downloads crosses the specific limit.

This is nothing but cheating by Airtel in the garb of FUP, something which is a completely different policy. I hope the governing authority takes this into account and gets rid of this sham.

Company: Airtel
Country: India
State: Maharashtra

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