Airtel to Provide 50 MBps Broadband Connection in India
By on March 29th, 2010

Airtel-50Mbps-broadbandIndia isn’t known for its internet connection speeds. However, Airtel seems to be determined to shake things up. After doubling the connection speed for all subscribers, it has now announced that it will be offering 50 MBps broadband connections.

Initially this option will be available in select few locations in Delhi and Gurgaon. It will later be rolled out in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.

These plans will not come cheap though. The 50 MBps plan will cost a whopping Rs. 8,999 while a comparatively slower 30 MBps plan will cost Rs. 7,999.

“We are delighted to introduce 50 mbps speed — the fastest, wired broadband service. This ultra-fast broadband connection will allow customers, the convenience to download songs in seconds and full length feature films in less than three minutes”, said Bharti Airtel Joint President (Telemedia Services) K Srinivas.

Like almost all high-speed internet connections available in India, Airtel’s newest offering is also capped. Both of the aforementioned plans have a data cap of 200 GB. This may seem huge, but it actually is not. Do you really want to pay nine thousand bucks and be restricted to a little more than 6.5 GB of data transfer per day?

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  • Abhi

    If this plan was below Rs.3000 per month then it would make some sense, I mean Rs.8999 lol wth, vats airtel thinking here, better airtel starts giving 2 and 4Mbps Unlimited plans below Rs.1000, India is already lagging way behind than other countries in Internet speeds, companies should start giving more importance to broadband instead of just focussing everything on mobies and 3g and all those stuffs, it's already high time how much longer can we wait enough is enouh, we want only high speed unlimited plans without any FUP, limited and data caps plans have no meaning at all, it's already high time, m really gettin pissed off by these ISPs in India..

  • http://www.maheshhari.uni.cc Mahesh

    Airtel must decrease it's Broadband Unlimited Tariff.

  • Aby

    By introducing plans like this, Airtel is insulting the intelligence of its customers. Offering 50 MBps on 200 GB data cap is like having an 8 lane expressway with a 20 kph speed limit.

 
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