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Airtel Broadband Fair Usage Policy

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Airtel Broadband recently handed out sugar coated lollipops to it’s subscribers with double speeds on unlimited broadband connections and a free 2 Mbps upgrade for watching IPL matches on YouTube. Airtel certainly went out of it’s way to become a non-seasonal Santa Claus. What didn’t get most of the attention was the silly little thing called the fair usage policy. It’s the one ingredient Airtel didn’t mention anywhere on the lollipop wrapper.
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Airtel Broadband Goes 2 mbps for Live IPL Stream!

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Airtel Broadband has decided to play Broadband-God during this season of IPL. Airtel has announced that it will automatically upgrade all it’s subscribers, irrespective of their current tariff plan, to 2 mbps for watching live stream of IPL on YouTube. Airtel broadband had recently also played Santa Claus while providing double the amount of promised data access speeds to all it’s users.

So it means I’ll be able to watch IPL on YouTube via Airtel Broadband without any buffer signs. With a 2 mbps line I am not even bothered about the 5 minute delay on all the IPL live coverage on YouTube. It works just fine unless you’re on Twitter and you get to know about a wicket falling and it ruins your stream. So stay off Twitter while watching the match.
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Airtel Broadband Doubles Speeds

March 11, 2010

Airtel Broadband seems to have doubled speeds for all it’s users. I have confirmed the same from users based in Chandigarh, Gurgaon, New Delhi/NCR and parts of Punjab. It could be a totally North Indian thing but until there’s an official word from Airtel there’s no proper way to explain this phenomenon.
My 256 kbps [...]

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How To Check BSNL Dataone Broadband Usage?

February 8, 2010

I’ve been one of the yearly few to switch to BSNL Dataone broadband services in my region. It was probably the first ever government run enterprise offering broadband services at cheaper prices. One of the early drawbacks of the state run BSNL Dataone broadband service was how to check usage? The initial plans were limited [...]

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Airtel Offers Free Unlimited Calling

February 5, 2010

Airtel is now offering free unlimited calling to it’s Airtel fixed line and broadband users across the country. The offer is however limited to calls from Airtel to Airtel fixed line subscribers only. The offer is limited to 7th, 14th and 21st February 2010 only. There’s no official word on why such generosity from Airtel’s [...]

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Pay Per Second Billing Storms India

November 5, 2009

The phone rings. I answer it and the person on the other end sounds like his arse is on fire. But he’s just another Indian pay per second billing subscriber making the most of it. Pay per second is finally here. Although Indian users have been accustomed to dirt cheap phone calls for a long [...]

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RCom’s Simply Reliance plan to bring tariff down

October 7, 2009

Reliance is known to create a buzz in the market with dirt cheap tariff plans. They did it the last time around with their CDMA services and they’re doing it again with their freshly brewed GSM network. Reliance has introduced a universal tariff plan across all it’s telecom circles which features calls for as low [...]

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Airtel Broadband launches 16 Mbps Plans

April 6, 2009

Airtel Broadband has launched 16 Mbps high speed broadband plans for it’s customers across the country. Airtel was earlier providing a maximum speed of 8 Mbps on it’s ADSL network. There are two tariff plans that come with the speeds of 16 Mbps. Both of them cap your data transfer limit to 20GB, 50GB and [...]

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