Airtel, one of the India’s top broadband ISP has taken revolutionary step to provide a minimum internet browsing speeds of 512 Kbps to all the broadband customers in India.
This could change the face of whole internet in India if other broadband service providers take this seriously and come up with similar steps to provide Hi Speed internet at affordable price.
In a press announcement released today by Airtel, the company announces that it will upgrade the speeds of all the existing customers to 512 Kbps by June 2010 notably at “no extra cost”.Also customers with 512 Kbps and 1 Mbps plans would get double speed upgrade to 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps respectively.
Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service providers, in an unprecedented move is upgrading speeds of all its existing customers (on 64, 128, 256 Kbps) to a minimum of 512 Kbps. Further, customers currently on 512 Kbps plans and 1mbps plans will have their speeds doubled to 1Mbps and 2Mbps respectively.
Airtel has also announced the launch of ‘Impatience Plans’ offering internet browsing speeds of 4 Mbps starting from as low as Rs. 899.
Airtel Impatience Plans Tariff (4 Mbps):
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Plan Name |
Impatience 899 |
Impatience 1099 |
Impatience 1399 |
Impatience 1799 |
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Speed |
4 Mbps |
4 Mbps |
4 Mbps |
4 Mbps |
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Rental (Rs.) |
899 |
1099 |
1399 |
1799 |
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High Speed Download (in GB) |
6 |
12 |
25 |
50 |
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Option 1: Unlimited Data Transfer Plan |
Post Hi Speed download continue browsing @ 256 Kbps |
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Option 2: Continuous High Speed Plan |
Continue at 4 Mbps @ 10 paise/MB per additional MB (Post High Speed download) |
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Kudos to Airtel for this wonderful speed upgrade, we hope this could help in taking broadband in India to a next level.
If you don’t know yet, Airtel is also offering Unlimited mobile internet (GPRS) at Rs.98 apart from offering free unlimited national and local SMS.
Update: Well, we have yet another free broadband speed upgrade, this time from Hyderabad based Beam Telecom, read Beam Tele free speed upgrade report.
