mgcarley
Founder, Hayai Broadband
We're thinking of flattening out the tariffs for data plans, which has caused a few sparks to fly in the dark recesses and a new idea has been created: PAYG on data plans.
Essentially there would be the base-fee of Rs599 as there is now, and then you could set a maximum bill amount (let's say Rs2000).
Then, let's say we flatten out the per-GB price across the board (no matter how many GBs you buy), so that it's some nice round figure - let's put a basic figure of Rs10/GB for the sake of the argument.
Then, you can use essentially as much (or as little) as you like until that billing limit is hit - in this case, it would be about 140GB.
But let's say you only used 50GB in total (rounded up to the nearest ~51MB due to that being the smallest unit of currency) - then your monthly bill (post-paid or pre-paid) would come out to be Rs599 + 50GB @ Rs10/GB or Rs1099 - or if you used 51608MB (50GB + 408MB), then it would be Rs1103 and so on.
This would eliminate the need for carryover GBs and all that, however the existing prepaid option would still remain (still with the ability to carry over as it exists now) - the difference now being that, because there is not staggered pricing any more, you could purchase pretty much the exact number of GBs you want, so instead of buying a data pack of 6GB, you could buy anything from 0.5 to 1000GB @ Rs10/GB (or Rs5 per 0.5GB).
Good idea? Bad idea? As usual, let me know!
Essentially there would be the base-fee of Rs599 as there is now, and then you could set a maximum bill amount (let's say Rs2000).
Then, let's say we flatten out the per-GB price across the board (no matter how many GBs you buy), so that it's some nice round figure - let's put a basic figure of Rs10/GB for the sake of the argument.
Then, you can use essentially as much (or as little) as you like until that billing limit is hit - in this case, it would be about 140GB.
But let's say you only used 50GB in total (rounded up to the nearest ~51MB due to that being the smallest unit of currency) - then your monthly bill (post-paid or pre-paid) would come out to be Rs599 + 50GB @ Rs10/GB or Rs1099 - or if you used 51608MB (50GB + 408MB), then it would be Rs1103 and so on.
This would eliminate the need for carryover GBs and all that, however the existing prepaid option would still remain (still with the ability to carry over as it exists now) - the difference now being that, because there is not staggered pricing any more, you could purchase pretty much the exact number of GBs you want, so instead of buying a data pack of 6GB, you could buy anything from 0.5 to 1000GB @ Rs10/GB (or Rs5 per 0.5GB).
Good idea? Bad idea? As usual, let me know!
