Airtel Broadband “Fair Usage Policy” Protest Petition

Airtel Broadband has a weird reason behind implementing Fair Usage Policy on their internet plans. You want to know what the reason is? Cyber Cafes Airtel claims that cyber cafe owners take the residential plans and use them for commercial purposes. .bbpBox a {color:#0084B4!important;}.bbpBox{background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1277242272/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6}p.bbpTweet span.metadata [...]

Airtel continues to do more damage to their reputation. It has already annoyed us all with the AFUP (Airtel Fair Usage Policy). It has also been known to block third party VoIP Services. The latest news in is that the company has now started censoring the web for their customers. One user on the India [...]

In an attempt apparently to try to recoup some of its ever-sagging reputation, (as per news reports) Airtel has introduced / will be introducing, and is advertising new plans with 16Mbps speeds. But don’t get too excited. Unfortunately the plan comes with a crushing rider – Data download limits, being 20GB (Rs. 2,999 p.m.) and [...]

Airtel: The Impatient Ones Airtel wants to hear from you if you are an Impatient One! I think this would be a great way to tell them how impatient you are with their Airtel Fair Usage Policy…

The latest twist in the tale is that Airtel in some areas is applying the Fair Usage Policy clause on only old customers. Here is an email from the Airtel customer support to a customer who inquired about the policy applicability:

As per Airtel’s website the FUP caps have been increased to the following levels (though official confirmation or communication to customers is still lacking):

Latest information available to us is that Airtel has now removed the limits put on by the Airtel Fair Usage Policy on the 256kbps unlimited plan.

Looks like Airtel is realizing the foolishness of their Fair Usage Policy. The company has not removed the policy in its entirety but they have for now increased the data transfer limits on the broadband plans.