how?
In the forms of discounts/account credits or something like that .
Hey hey one more thing. If as you said in this thread that it costs you the same to deliver 300 GB at 5 mbps and 100 mbps then why are not all plans 100 mbps ? Is it that you fear the usage will increase too high ?
No. All data-based plans are 100mbit/s.
We don't have anything like 300GB @ 5mbit/s for one price and then 300GB @ 100mbit/s for another price. In my eyes that sort of pricing is stupid and such tariffs should be stopped as soon as possible.
Flat-rate pricing is in speed tiers because its flat-rate. We generally assume that someone with a 100mbit/s connection is going to download more than someone with a 5mbit/s connection.
Excepting extreme cases of network abuse, we only limit one thing (data) or the other (speed) - not both.
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Also @admin and I just had an exchange on
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Mathew Carley - Not exactly.
At the wholesale level, we pay a flat-rate for each multiple of 155mbit/s that we buy.
But from the last-mile point of view, there is no point in putting a limit on speed if we put a limit on data transfer, that's the only part that Airtel needs to rectify.
My proposal to them would be that the simply unleash the speed caps on any plan which has a limit on data transfer - rather than having 2 or 4mbit/s until 10 or 30 or 50 or 100GB, they could just have up to
ADSL2+ speeds instead (and then apply the FUP as appropriate).
It works in NZ, there is no reason it couldn't work for Airtel also - and if anyone can do it, they can. Real-world speeds here (despite being up to ADSL2+) are probably 5-10mbit/s depending on which urban area you live, but there are people like me who get 15 or more. With the way Airtel's DSL network is set up, I would expect that their users should get 20.
Yes, that does mean that users could use up a 100GB cap in 1-2 days but at the end of the day, that's the user's problem, not Airtels, and they really need to start thinking about charging for larger units rather than per MB - just visiting certain websites these days (say, yahoo.com) can eat up 1MB.
If 100GB is Rs5000 = Rs50/GB, then why is each extra GB going to cost 8 times as much? Twice as much is maybe OK but EIGHT TIMES? That's just ridiculous. If India had the equivalent of New Zealand's commerce commission, Airtel and every other ISP would be "eaten for breakfast".
Perhaps next time you meet with them, let me know and we can have a conference call. Mind forwarding the excel sheet?
Mathew Carley - And another thing, Rs5000 for 100GB doesn't really fit in with their other pricing.
I think the existing impatience plans are Rs1799 for 50GB, right? This means Rs35.98/GB.
Why is a 100GB plan Rs1400 more expensive than it should be? (should be only Rs3600 by my calculations, and that would include a 256kbit/s FUP after the limit has been reached!!)