Most ‘unlimited’ broadband plans today in India have incorporated ‘fair usage limit’. Even though I have an unlimited data transfer on my Airtel broadband, the speed reduces to 256K the moment the usage crosses 10 GB. With a teenager at home hitting the 10 GB is not at all difficult, month on month!
I received a promotional email from Airtel, the subject of which said “Pay Rs 100 more, upgrade for unlimited 2GB plan”. Sounds very economical. The body of the email was blank. But I did not give up, I responded to Airtel, the corporate office got involved. Tons of emails were exchanged and I was told by the corporate office “It is actually Rs 150 more and after 20GB the speed reduces to 256K”. I asked them to go ahead with the change of plan.
After few days Airtel called me to say the limit was 10 GB and not 20 GB. I did not bother to upgrade, I did not see how it would help me with data limit being the same as my current plan.
In February I read about fair usage policy on mobile networks in the US. Few points were,
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