Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] New Wireless Broadband USB Modems.

Pankaj Jangid wrote: Geez...grow up man. You post to a mailing list about your tweet? :P Anyway, theres nothing false about Reliance's advertising. The plan *is* unlimited. Its just that you have to pay beyond a certain usage. They're not going to cut you off. They will simply charge you for the extra usage. ( Check out my other reply to Saswata. It should make this clear ). They distinguish between a "Flat Rate" plan and "Unlimited plan". It also depends on what definition they use. Their definition of unlimited isn't misleading or wrong. Also, they have clearly marked it and specified it in the fine print so its a losing case for the consumer. Lastly, theres a difference between - Unlimited, Unmetered, Flat fee / rate plan. What you can pull them up for is putting *any* limits at all. As I see it they are creating an artificial scarcity of resources. We can show the court how much international bandwidth these people have and how much the country's infrastructure supports. They're hoarding it and selling it and at an artificially high price. If we convince the courts that theres plenty for everybody and yet they're showing as if theres scarcity we can not only get higher speeds, unmetered bandwidth but maybe get the ISPs to compensate ( monetarily ) to the long time consumers. I remember clearly that TRAI mandated a 70% cut in leased lines a while back and that had ZERO impact on the costs for the end consumer. All it did was fattened up the grossly high profit margins of these money grabbing telcos. Atleast I didnt see a 70% cut in my broadband bill. - Dinesh