Thread: Why do you think Airtel 3G has no unlimited plan ?

Hi,
What I want is an unlimited plan from Airtel 3G. I can guess there are many like me who wants one but Airtel seems to have no interest, which makes me wonder why is there not an unlimited plan ? At least night unlimited?

What do you guys think ?

It would be great to see an unlimited 3g plan from Airtel Or even a 10-20GB per month plan with a reasonable price tag. I am currently using airtel 3g on my phone and I have a prepaid sim card and I buy the rs 650 plan and it just finishes in 7-10 days although I only use it on the phone for push e-mail and some updates and all that nothing heavy.
Airtel Airtel are you listening

Airtel introduced FUP in market, what more can we expect from them. Though with high speeds, unlimited users may end up downloading in Terabytes, but the current limits are nothing but day light robbery. We can understand it costs, but we too are paying hard earned money and would expect a decent limit for that.

I wouldnt call it robbery purely because you have a choice and you can choose a cheaper service provider as well for example MTNL in Delhi and Mumbai and Bsnl in the rest of India but then their networks are not the best. I find Airtel's network a lot better then Mtnl's here in Delhi.

Let us hope price will come down as more people move to 3G. 4G (LTE) will come this December (by Mukesh Ambani). We are seeing news about a lot of LTE phones being launched across the globe, that may have some effect on the price of 3G phones too. But I think 2G can be unlimited considering it gives very low speeds.

2g is already available with unlimited data transfer with Airtel if I remember correctly.. there is some plan called shield or something where you get 3g speed for initial quota then once you use it your connection will get unlimited 2g for the rest of the month.

Please correct me if I am wrong but this is what I remember reading somewhere on Airtel's website.

hmm, from what I heard in last 2-3 months almost all providers has withdrawn UL 2G plans. I could be wrong though. Just shifted to Airtel SIM on my mobile, will be happy to know if such a plan exists.

Use a 3G plan if you are always on the move or there is some difficulty availing a wired BSNL connection.

Otherwise HOME UL XYZ.

Its all Airtel, Vodafone & other 3G provider’s fault that one has arrived at such a conclusion.

Originally Posted by Admin

2g is already available with unlimited data transfer with Airtel if I remember correctly.. there is some plan called shield or something where you get 3g speed for initial quota then once you use it your connection will get unlimited 2g for the rest of the month.

Please correct me if I am wrong but this is what I remember reading somewhere on Airtel's website.

I think what you are referring is the Rs 675/1.25GB 3G plan in which you get around 13 gb or so for Rs 2000 (calculates @ X paise/KB @ offered rate and above Rs 2000 max bill,you get free GPRS speed. It is there in post paid and pre paid (but in prepaid 3g -for this to work you need to have min rs 2000 in the main a/c.-free GPRS kicks in only after you spend Rs2k in 3G)

In prepaid 3G right now they give Double Data offer.
Generally Post paid customers get shafted nicely!

Pure GPRS 2G- Airtel was the first to increase price. Rs 98 -2GB reduced to 1 GB. But the saving grace is Rs 251-8 GB- 90 days validity which Iam using.

GPRS speed of Airtel is best and Voda comes second.I dropped voda gprs after they increased price ( they have no 3 month plan)and all my family phones are in Airtel pre paid GPRS/3G plans.

If you get signal you can use Uninor GPRS -6 GB or so for Rs 98. I used it before and it was ok. But signal in metro peripheries and basement etc is poor.You can not change in to Uninor for voice but for GPRS it is cheap if you get signal in your place.(if you are using 2 phones -this can work -like I do-voice phone with 2 sims is fixed.but 3 G android phone sim changes as per deals.)

See the rate chart from BSNL (bsnl.co.in/service/internet_tariff1.htm) to get an idea of how expensive it is. 2 Mbps for an entire year cost Rs 9 lakhs that is about Rs 75,000 per month!!!

To make it feasible an ISP will share this line with more than one user assuming all users do not access internet at the same time every day. Giving out unlimited plan will encourage users to download content all day all the time. This will reduce the speed for all users, even for the ones who do not download much and only do casual surfing. To prevent this all ISPs have download limits to discourage heavy downloader’s from saturating the internet bandwidth for all.

This is now practiced even in the United States of America. So do not feel too bad. Our hard earned Rs 1000 or Rs 2000 is too little to get unlimited internet.

Originally Posted by smartyram

To make it feasible an ISP will share this line with more than one user assuming all users do not access internet at the same time every day.

I guess that's how Cable ISPs work but you cant stop people from downloading. That's too difficult. I a Linux enthusiast I download& try 2-3 distros per month That's 3 DVDs. My friend uses Alliance cable internet. IMO its quite inferior to DSL.

I just found out about the new airtel 3g tariffs and they look far better then the prices they had earlier