Airtel Broadband: 13% usage is considered fair usage!

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Airtel Broadband: 13% usage is considered fair usage!

Airtel Broadband has implemented a fair usage policy on the subscribers of their unlimited plans.

We went ahead and calculated how much they are allowing the subscriber to use as per their fair usage limits.

We took the 512kbps connection. The limit on this plan is 40GB a month.

512kbps plan means…

Data transfer in one second: 64KB download + 64 KB upload = 128 KB
Data transfer in one minute: 128KB * 60 = 7680 KB
Data transfer in one hour: 7680KB * 60 = 460800 KB
Data transfer in one day: 460800KB * 24 = 11059200 KB
Data transfer in 30 days: 11059200KB * 30 = 331776000 KB

Now, 331776000 KB = 316.41 GB

So, theoretically speaking a customer on Airtel’s 512kbps unlimited package can do a maximum data transfer of 316.41 GB in a month ‘at the official package speed’. The fair usage limit is 40GB. This comes to around 12.6% of theoretical maximum limit. After that the user is downgraded to half the package’s original speed.

Is this fair by any standard?