1: What ever they introduce is ok but not commited bandwidth.
They say its 16mb but it gives only 512kbps. Another point to be noted Bharti Airtel Ltd is company which does major fraud in billing.

Posted by: suryan - 18 Apr, 2009

2: I completely agree with Abhishek. I have a Reliance broad-band data card and my experience with billing, service, etc is the same. They charge current month\'s rent, next month\'s in advance and if you change in between, they charge you the new amount, with no adjustment of the \'advance\' rent.

Posted by: Pravin - 06 Apr, 2009

3: It seems to be good . Now Delhi is one step ahead from Mumbai.
The corporate competitors should think about why internet services are so much poor in mumbai. specially in Reliance Wireless connection

Posted by: Ranjeet  - 06 Apr, 2009

4: Ya I agree with what abishek has posted , providing Speeds of 8 Mbps -- 16 Mbps is gr8 , but the amount of download limit they give horrible & totally ridiculous . Whatz the use of speed when the download bandwidth is set to such poor standards .

Posted by: ashwin  - 06 Apr, 2009

5: Why is Mumbai NEVER second after Delhi to receive services, be it 3G or otherwise?

Anyway, it's good to know what our competitors are up to so that we can do better - we are planning such revolutionary service in Mumbai.

First we are planning wireless access to exceed 3.1Mbits and have higher data allowance compared to offerings by Reliance/Tata etc, now it looks like we may have to try either DSL or some kind of even faster wireless tech: 4G or something like that.

Currently I am suffering with GPRS @ 144kbps, having moved from Finland where I had 24mbits (and later 100mbits).

Posted by: Mathew - 05 Apr, 2009

6: We are still behind the world far far away..Japan and South Korea has a average speed of 50 MBPS....I hope our policy makers and Service providers are working towards decreasing the cost and increasing the Speed for general consumers...

Posted by: Manav - 05 Apr, 2009

7: Great, thx for the techs who worked for this. If it continues then terabyte and petabytes is no matters then we can able to download the smae 4 GB movie in 10 min. Great job guys.

Posted by: siva - 05 Apr, 2009

8: I understand from the above that I can download a 4GB movie in 30 mins. and then these so called broadband providers have a 20GB cap which means i'll expire my download limit in 2.5 hours? Now is this is a joke or what? Broadband with such ridiculous download limits is useless for the consumer in my opinion.

Posted by: Abhishek - 05 Apr, 2009

9:I completely agree with Abhishek. The ridiculous download caps etc. by the ISPs are the things they should look at first rather than putting in infrastructure for higher bandwidth. If both the things are given to the customers, I am sure India will become another SuperPower in terms of internet usage.

 im_xboss replied to: Abhishek 
 post - 05 Apr, 2009

10:Exactly sort of a situation I have faced very recently. I had an Airtel connection 2Mbps speed with 4Gb download limit for a montly rental of Rs 777.00. I never downloaded a movie from the net. What I essentially did was to use the "skype" for video chat with my wife who is currently in USA. Well, this led me crossing the 4 GB limit. I received a bill of Rs 15 thousand. The bill they send particularly for broadband is always written in Hibru. It sat at what time you accessed the net and how much GB you have used. But there you find nothing about the duration for which you accessed it, which is not only ridiculous but also a complete non-sense. How do I know under the Sun that the usage written on the bill is justified ? And there are entries more than the number of hair in my head. Atrocious people these are. Well, the story doesn't end here. My billing period is like 23rd day to 24th day of the next month. Receiving the bill on and around the 4th of the next month, I called them up and opted to switch to an unlimited access scheme with monthly rental Rs. 1499. So I potentially used the previous 777 scheme for 10 days. Now at the end of the month I again received a bill worth Rs. 9100.00. When I challenged I got an explanation as below: "You have used the 777 plan for 10 days. So the rental would be around Rs. 300 and the limit now would be 1 GB. So whatever you have used above 1 GB would be chargeable at the rate Rs 2 per MB basis. And for the rest 20 days your have to pay around Rs 790". This sounds so logical but as much irritating and frustrating. These clauses should be spelled out to the customers and they should advise the customers about a right time for the switch. They not only cheat deliberately but also behave abrasively. These people are so much frustrating for the customers at times. There is not a single thing which helps the customers to protect their own interests.

 Vivek replied to: Abhishek 
 post - 05 Apr, 2009

11:welcome to india!

 oby replied to: Abhishek 
 post - 05 Apr, 2009

12: hope this service works.. im planning for a broadband connection.. this will be a good choice i suppose if it really lives up to what is being stated.

Posted by: raman - 05 Apr, 2009