The Airtel 3G plans that were released for Karnataka today seem to be meant for making people utilise the Mobile Number Portability. The plan, leaving aside a few packages which are themselves quite restrictive and with very low download limits (considering the speed on offer), is essentially at 30p/20Kb.
This translates to Rs. 1.5 for every 100Kb or in other words Rs. 15000 for each GB of download. I get unlimited download on the broadband from the same company for Rs. 2000 at a speed of about 2Mbps. Now, on the mobile they are promising 21 Mbps, we all know that nobody is ever going to get that kind of speed. The broadband gives me a best performance of about 300Kbps on a line which is supposed to be 2Mbps. By the same standards, though I am expecting more losses in speed on the mobile phone, one should get about 3Mbps speed at this above mentioned abominable rate.
For all the re-branding and new tunes. ads and everything, Airtel will not be able to acquire any clients at this kind of pricing. Unfortunately, the launch of Mobile Number Portability coincides with the 3G launch for Airtel, (probably they wanted it that way). This is only going to result in them loosing customers and not acquiring any.
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