31 Mar
2009
31 Mar
'09
9:04 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What about Mumbai Mirror? They can be contacted and
told of this open
fraud. If anyone has direct contacts thats good or it is the plain old
'Letters to the Editor'.
I'm really not sure what you guys are talking about here. When all the
limitations are mentioned in a plan you buy, how is it a fraud? The
same goes for Airtels fair usage policy -- it's not a secret internal
memo. It's a public document.
Also, regarding the cost of broadband in India, isn't there another
dimension to it, i.e. the amount of traffic that goes from one country
to another, that determines this cost? I had read about this somewhere
(also in one of the manifestos Venky had posted) that the amount of
traffic going out of India as opposed to the amount that comes in also
determines this cost. So it's easy for European countries, Japan,
China and the US to give download caps of 250-300 GB or so since most
of their traffic is either local or outbound. Also, there are chances
you might reach it since they have bandwidths up to 8 Mbps (I had read
something about 3 Gbps lines in Japan). So it's really not fair to
compare between the US/UK and India for this.
Also, having a download cap when you're never going to reach it is
absurd -- why have it in the first place? The cap is generally
analogous to the capacity of the network. While it may not necessarily
fair, it is a business limitation that Airtel chooses to work in. If
you as a customer do not like that cap then simply change ISPs. No
point cribbing on the mailing list -- they don't read it :)
--
Siddhesh Poyarekar
http://siddhesh.in