Is Airtel Broadband really Broadband as per TRAI?
May 15th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 108 times, 1 so far today
Is Airtel Broadband really Broadband as per TRAI?
TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) released a documentation quite sometime ago which laid out the Recommendations on Accelerating Growth of Internet and Broadband Penetration. The document clearly defined broadband as:
Broadband is an “An always-on data connection that is able to support various interactive services, and has the capability of a minimum download speed of 256 Kbpsâ€.
Now, we already are aware that Sify openly make a mockery of this theory by selling packages of speeds 48kbps under the brand name of Sify Broadband. They claim that they sell sub-256kbps packages under the label of Hi-Speed, which is another slap in the face of the authorities.
Now, let us take Airtel Broadband. Some of the most popular packages being sold by this company come with speeds of 64kbps and 128kbps. We are still not sure how can they provide these services under the brand of Airtel Broadband. When would we see a decent broadband? I guess the Mbps speed thingy is still way too far off.
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This post was submitted by Dr. Abhishek Puri on the Broadband Blog on Techwhack.
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May 16th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
The TRAI directive on Broadband has been kicked around by most of the so called broadband opeartors offering speeds of 48-64 kbps under innovative names.The slap in the face of such directive would be given time and again until we rise up as consumers and take these operators by their throat.If that is asking for too much, then we shouldn’t be complaining in the first place.Could we as consumers expect the respected people writing their daily views here to take up this issue with the regulator so as to create a mass awareness among the ignorant users of broadband.
I think this could be the fisrt step to take for the operators to deliver what they promise.
May 16th, 2005 at 01:44 am
The TRAI directive on Broadband has been kicked around by most of the so called broadband opeartors offering speeds of 48-64 kbps under innovative names.The slap in the face of such directive would be given time and again until we rise up as consumers and take these operators by their throat.If that is asking for too much, then we shouldn’t be complaining in the first place.Could we as consumers expect the respected people writing their daily views here to take up this issue with the regulator so as to create a mass awareness among the ignorant users of broadband.
I think this could be the fisrt step to take for the operators to deliver what they promise.
June 8th, 2005 at 11:24 am
That’s the typical INDIAN GOVERNMENT!! ROfl,here they release rules and regulations to make people think that they’re doing something, and RIGHT under their nose, corrupt ISP like BSNL, Sify (the leader in all of this), MTNL break all the rules, with no problems.
Cheers for Airtel for providing a pathetic speed of 128 at unlimited, the true unlimited. Other the rest, suck so bad, and is so irritating when they post the ‘unlimited broadband’ thing, i truly will get banned here if post that godamn word.
India is corrupt. that’s all. Nobody follows rules, big company’s think Indians don’t have any knowledge so they’ll buy anything which is sort of true, and that’s what helping ISP like Sify do great.
oh well, what can we do ? nothing!
June 8th, 2005 at 12:54 am
That’s the typical INDIAN GOVERNMENT!! ROfl,here they release rules and regulations to make people think that they’re doing something, and RIGHT under their nose, corrupt ISP like BSNL, Sify (the leader in all of this), MTNL break all the rules, with no problems.
Cheers for Airtel for providing a pathetic speed of 128 at unlimited, the true unlimited. Other the rest, suck so bad, and is so irritating when they post the ‘unlimited broadband’ thing, i truly will get banned here if post that godamn word.
India is corrupt. that’s all. Nobody follows rules, big company’s think Indians don’t have any knowledge so they’ll buy anything which is sort of true, and that’s what helping ISP like Sify do great.
oh well, what can we do ? nothing!
August 5th, 2005 at 04:29 pm
I have got airtel gprs connection via my cell phone ,they say the connection speed is 210 kbps but the download speed which i get is merely 5 kbps!!Please anyone suggest me which connection should i get whether Airtel broadband or sify.
August 5th, 2005 at 05:59 am
I have got airtel gprs connection via my cell phone ,they say the connection speed is 210 kbps but the download speed which i get is merely 5 kbps!!Please anyone suggest me which connection should i get whether Airtel broadband or sify.
November 17th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
I have got airtel broadband 64kbps unlimited connection at home, When i download something it gives me only 10-15kbps of speed, why is it so. Can any one help me.
November 18th, 2005 at 09:54 am
I have got airtel broadband 64kbps unlimited connection at home, When i download something it gives me only 10-15kbps of speed, why is it so. Can any one help me.
December 23rd, 2005 at 04:08 pm
Airtel is trying to provide more services in context to broadband or so but should try provide the existing service in right manner.
since it took me 30 min to log on to this site to write this.
and i’m not sure if it works when i try to post
December 24th, 2005 at 03:38 am
Airtel is trying to provide more services in context to broadband or so but should try provide the existing service in right manner.
since it took me 30 min to log on to this site to write this.
and i’m not sure if it works when i try to post
January 15th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Just got Airtel broadband 256 package here in hyderabad. Their speed meter at speed.touchtelindia.net shows me anything beteen 90kps to 250 kbps. Download speed in max 30Kbps. Now am really not sure what they are claiming for and they should calrify on this.
January 16th, 2006 at 12:10 am
Just got Airtel broadband 256 package here in hyderabad. Their speed meter at speed.touchtelindia.net shows me anything beteen 90kps to 250 kbps. Download speed in max 30Kbps. Now am really not sure what they are claiming for and they should calrify on this.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Hi.. I too have the same problem as Karan. But my connection is Tata Indicom.It is 64 kbps. But the download speed does not exceed 15 kbps.. Please help
February 4th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Hi.. I too have the same problem as Karan. But my connection is Tata Indicom.It is 64 kbps. But the download speed does not exceed 15 kbps.. Please help
February 16th, 2006 at 11:39 am
hi i have a airtel broadband 256kbps night unlimited plan.
and my download speed is 53KB/Sec or 3.12 MB/Minute.i am very
stisfy with my download speed. but this speed i am got after 11.00 pm.
February 16th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
hi i have a airtel broadband 256kbps night unlimited plan.
and my download speed is 53KB/Sec or 3.12 MB/Minute.i am very
stisfy with my download speed. but this speed i am got after 11.00 pm.
April 8th, 2006 at 01:06 pm
Hello all,
Before you all shout from the rooftops, please dig this.
1) kbps means kilo bits per second and not kilo bytes per second. So when you take a 256Kbps connections, your bandwidth is resticted to a maximum of 32 kilobytes per second.
2) Most of the “broadband” providers in india use ADSL technology. In ADSL, the upload speed is restricted to a minimum limit of 50% of the download speed. In case of BSNL, it is around 30% of the download speed.
April 8th, 2006 at 02:36 am
Hello all,
Before you all shout from the rooftops, please dig this.
1) kbps means kilo bits per second and not kilo bytes per second. So when you take a 256Kbps connections, your bandwidth is resticted to a maximum of 32 kilobytes per second.
2) Most of the “broadband” providers in india use ADSL technology. In ADSL, the upload speed is restricted to a minimum limit of 50% of the download speed. In case of BSNL, it is around 30% of the download speed.
May 16th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
I had taken a 256kbps connection of unlimited usage from airtel but they had given me 128kbps connection of unlimited usage and charges for 256kbps. This shows that they cheats customers. I had taken the connection on 25feb2006 but they had not given me the adjustment of above.
May 16th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
I had taken a 256kbps connection of unlimited usage from airtel but they had given me 128kbps connection of unlimited usage and charges for 256kbps. This shows that they cheats customers. I had taken the connection on 25feb2006 but they had not given me the adjustment of above.
August 12th, 2006 at 03:10 pm
I too face the same problem. What ever committment given by Airtel is not correct and they are cheating the customer.
August 12th, 2006 at 04:40 am
I too face the same problem. What ever committment given by Airtel is not correct and they are cheating the customer.
June 4th, 2008 at 08:15 am
U r right.
Airtel is always cheating cxs
June 3rd, 2008 at 09:45 pm
U r right.
Airtel is always cheating cxs