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Airtel Broadband: Ineffective marketing?

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Ever since it has introduced the new 512k unlimited plans (much to my delight), I was struck by the stupidity of the dimwits that has hired. has a fantastic infrastructure because it was not weighed in by the legacy initiatives of the older sloths, and . It introduced 8 Mbps speeds with download limits that anyone would piss on. It would find some eager beavers to taste the “speeds” but it remains useless to ponder on that.

I feel that the “top up” thingy should be declared illegal because you have two plans running concurrently offering the same speeds. They should migrate the existing customers to the present price plan because it makes no sense to pay higher prices for something that doesnt cost much. No one is willing to look into this because the company and the regulator seem to share the same relationship as a client and a prostitute. As long as the right money comes in, the whore mongering goes on with everyone looking at the other way. Unfortunate.

Either way, I have been arguing that the current prices donot reflect the existing price slabs across the world. Most of the major telcos in the developing world have shifted away from the 256k plans and have focussed on higher bandwidth options. Further, the prices across the are way to expensive in terms of purchasing parity; which effectively means that there is an open loot going on.

Airtel can easily slash down the prices for access; offer unlimited plans with bundling of voice calls and along with that create demand to cater to the new customers. Airtel still advertises as a lifestyle product; it should be placed as something utilatarian instead of being aspirational. Thats the whole irony of it. Dimwits have access to bucket loads of cash to burn.  

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Same bitter experience on the 512 kbps UL @ 1999 and would have continued being stuck in the same plan had a marketing executive not tried to lure me into 1 mbps UL for "just Rs. 222 extra" which sounded very fishy and made me look up their website for current tariffs

They say they will not automatically change the plan nor will they inform us about new tariffs through newsletters/ sms/ mail.. It is upto us to look up their website/ call up CC every now and then to find out if tariffs have changed..

This is how they treat loyal customers who have been with them for 5 yrs!!

Same bitter experience on the 512 kbps UL @ 1999 and would have continued being stuck in the same plan had a marketing executive not tried to lure me into 1 mbps UL for "just Rs. 222 extra" which sounded very fishy and made me look up their website for current tariffs

They say they will not automatically change the plan nor will they inform us about new tariffs through newsletters/ sms/ mail.. It is upto us to look up their website/ call up CC every now and then to find out if tariffs have changed..

This is how they treat loyal customers who have been with them for 5 yrs!!

Airtel has a way of adding charges to your account without you knowing it, i just had a similar experience with Airtel and i was very annoyed, the problem is that i don't have any other choice. MTNL in delhi is even worse.. so i choose bad over worse :)

Airtel has a way of adding charges to your account without you knowing it, i just had a similar experience with Airtel and i was very annoyed, the problem is that i don't have any other choice. MTNL in delhi is even worse.. so i choose bad over worse :)

ahh abhisheik accha hoga aap agar apne blog pe yeh bhi post karr do siddhanth gupta ke naam se.. thanks

As i have seen previous posts about airtel what the other people say is 100% true airtel never thinks before lootening customers.

Few months back, i got A bill usually it comes below 500 Rs but this time it was like 780 Rs and i was shocked to see intensive usage of the broadband line durig the day and at times when i am at school! i was shocked to see 50mb download during the daytime(i have night plan). i called up their support the support didnt turn up with an answer. I asked for the cancellation of my account and he said that okay we will cancel it..

few days later we recieved a call from their executive askin that why was i keen to get connection cut? and i told her the reason she said we will give you a wavier of 300Rs. i was a satisfied customer.and i paid them 480 rs.

But the next month when the bill arrived still they hadnt done any wavier and added up the next bill + late submission charges. i got angry and called up the support. they said ok we will do it we are clearing all the previous charges. i didnt say anything and took the reference number.

now next month i had to shift i told airtel about it. but they said it would cost us 300Rs i got angry as the shifting services provided are free of cost and i wasnt a new customer i had been their customer for one full year.but then we again said about disconnection they took few more days and another executive called me up. he said that he would get our connection shifted for free. i didnt say anything though and the connection was shifted.

Now when i recieved the bill three months later i was shocked to see that these people didnt doo the wavier and added up the shifting charges. now i am really annoyed with these people. my mother had a surgery this month and i dont want her blood pressure to shoot up due to these petty issues.
now i have called up the support and i was really angry i told them to disconnect their services and please dont ask any of the silly executives to call up.

now lets see what happens

but i think airtel is a very bad internet Service provider they just learn to loot people and nothing else

NOTE- If you want to let your request done by airtel officials you should tell them to disconnect their services or else they will just ignore it.

Also these airtel people dont impress me by their speeds once i was shifted i had experienced speeds of 115kpbs but now it has again dropped to 35.(on 256 kbps line)

so i say this airtel broadband sucks never use them.

ahh abhisheik accha hoga aap agar apne blog pe yeh bhi post karr do siddhanth gupta ke naam se.. thanks

As i have seen previous posts about airtel what the other people say is 100% true airtel never thinks before lootening customers.

Few months back, i got A bill usually it comes below 500 Rs but this time it was like 780 Rs and i was shocked to see intensive usage of the broadband line durig the day and at times when i am at school! i was shocked to see 50mb download during the daytime(i have night plan). i called up their support the support didnt turn up with an answer. I asked for the cancellation of my account and he said that okay we will cancel it..

few days later we recieved a call from their executive askin that why was i keen to get connection cut? and i told her the reason she said we will give you a wavier of 300Rs. i was a satisfied customer.and i paid them 480 rs.

But the next month when the bill arrived still they hadnt done any wavier and added up the next bill + late submission charges. i got angry and called up the support. they said ok we will do it we are clearing all the previous charges. i didnt say anything and took the reference number.

now next month i had to shift i told airtel about it. but they said it would cost us 300Rs i got angry as the shifting services provided are free of cost and i wasnt a new customer i had been their customer for one full year.but then we again said about disconnection they took few more days and another executive called me up. he said that he would get our connection shifted for free. i didnt say anything though and the connection was shifted.

Now when i recieved the bill three months later i was shocked to see that these people didnt doo the wavier and added up the shifting charges. now i am really annoyed with these people. my mother had a surgery this month and i dont want her blood pressure to shoot up due to these petty issues.
now i have called up the support and i was really angry i told them to disconnect their services and please dont ask any of the silly executives to call up.

now lets see what happens

but i think airtel is a very bad internet Service provider they just learn to loot people and nothing else

NOTE- If you want to let your request done by airtel officials you should tell them to disconnect their services or else they will just ignore it.

Also these airtel people dont impress me by their speeds once i was shifted i had experienced speeds of 115kpbs but now it has again dropped to 35.(on 256 kbps line)

so i say this airtel broadband sucks never use them.

Airtel launches a 512K UL plan for Rs. 1999

After a couple of months, they relaunch the same plan for Rs. 1499

Customers of earlier plan are not automatically moved to this new plan.

If you have to save money, you are required to manually switch your plan to the new one from the one which no longer exist.

Airtel launches a 512K UL plan for Rs. 1999

After a couple of months, they relaunch the same plan for Rs. 1499

Customers of earlier plan are not automatically moved to this new plan.

If you have to save money, you are required to manually switch your plan to the new one from the one which no longer exist.

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