I am a user of Airtel broadband and Airtel. I first came across Airtel when I went to Chennai in June 2002. Just when I stepped out of Chennai Central station there was a huge advertising board/ bilboard where the mobile ad of Airtel was displayed. At that time I did not have mobile.
Earlier to that I had never heard of Airtel. In Bombay/Mumbai, there was VSNL and MTNL. Then it was a matter of time before the entire VSNL organisation was "sold off" to the Tatas by the politicians.
VSNL did not remain VSNL, it slowly got converted into a 'private sector organisation' the owner were the Tatas. Politicians merely became the rubber stamps to 'sell it off' the way Tata demanded.
Then I left Mumbai in 2002 and went to my hometown and then proceeded to Chennai. When I went to Chennai, initially, I did observe a lot of 'towers'. Actually in the use of mobiles, South India was 'more forward' than North India in 2002. Along with the use of mobiles came the installation of towers. Because without those 'towers', mobile network and mobiles will not work.
These days there are 'mobile towers all over India'. Mobile network has expanded throughout the wide spectrum of the Indian populace.
Now in Chennai I did not take mobile. I still relied on landline and PCO's from where you could dial STD/ISD. In Mumbai in 2002, my father had given me a mobile but during one night talk the entire 'talktime' got erased. It got erased because the 'call rates' were so high.
I got my next mobile in early 2004. It was Reliance Telecom mobile. It was Odisha number. But when I came to Bengaluru in 2004, I returned the Reliance mobile to my father and took a new SIM card in Bengaluru. And that SIM belonged to Airtel. The phone was the original Nokia phone (that dark blue phone with green background screen and black and white). In 2005, I bought a Sony Ericsson phone. In 2007, I bought another Nokia phone (6630 model). In May 2008, I bought Nokia N82. In Dec 2010, I bought Samsung Galaxy Tab. In Sep 2011, I bought Nokia C2-03. And then in Sep 2012 I have bought Nokia Lumia 610. And this is my current phone.
Meanwhile I took Airtel broadband in April 2006. Initially I used to watch music videos. When Airtel increased its speed from 256 kbps to 1 Mbps, I began watching movies. Because I did not download the movies but watched it in streaming mode. And since 2007, I have observed that a speed of at least 512 kbps is required for youtube videos. I remember I started watching movies only starting May 2008 or around that time.
Airtel is good, service is good. But they introduced the FUP plan after taking cue from the mobile internet. I have a limit of 10 GB. And since two months when my FUP is over i.e. 10 GB a site loads automatically if I want to 'puchase high speed data'. After a two day deliberation, day before yesterday I purchased 25 GB data. And I must tell the service and concept is excellent. I really like this smartbytes system. Also, if we visit the smartbytes site we can see how much data we have used and how much is still available.
Earlier to that I had never heard of Airtel. In Bombay/Mumbai, there was VSNL and MTNL. Then it was a matter of time before the entire VSNL organisation was "sold off" to the Tatas by the politicians.
VSNL did not remain VSNL, it slowly got converted into a 'private sector organisation' the owner were the Tatas. Politicians merely became the rubber stamps to 'sell it off' the way Tata demanded.
Then I left Mumbai in 2002 and went to my hometown and then proceeded to Chennai. When I went to Chennai, initially, I did observe a lot of 'towers'. Actually in the use of mobiles, South India was 'more forward' than North India in 2002. Along with the use of mobiles came the installation of towers. Because without those 'towers', mobile network and mobiles will not work.
These days there are 'mobile towers all over India'. Mobile network has expanded throughout the wide spectrum of the Indian populace.
Now in Chennai I did not take mobile. I still relied on landline and PCO's from where you could dial STD/ISD. In Mumbai in 2002, my father had given me a mobile but during one night talk the entire 'talktime' got erased. It got erased because the 'call rates' were so high.
I got my next mobile in early 2004. It was Reliance Telecom mobile. It was Odisha number. But when I came to Bengaluru in 2004, I returned the Reliance mobile to my father and took a new SIM card in Bengaluru. And that SIM belonged to Airtel. The phone was the original Nokia phone (that dark blue phone with green background screen and black and white). In 2005, I bought a Sony Ericsson phone. In 2007, I bought another Nokia phone (6630 model). In May 2008, I bought Nokia N82. In Dec 2010, I bought Samsung Galaxy Tab. In Sep 2011, I bought Nokia C2-03. And then in Sep 2012 I have bought Nokia Lumia 610. And this is my current phone.
Meanwhile I took Airtel broadband in April 2006. Initially I used to watch music videos. When Airtel increased its speed from 256 kbps to 1 Mbps, I began watching movies. Because I did not download the movies but watched it in streaming mode. And since 2007, I have observed that a speed of at least 512 kbps is required for youtube videos. I remember I started watching movies only starting May 2008 or around that time.
Airtel is good, service is good. But they introduced the FUP plan after taking cue from the mobile internet. I have a limit of 10 GB. And since two months when my FUP is over i.e. 10 GB a site loads automatically if I want to 'puchase high speed data'. After a two day deliberation, day before yesterday I purchased 25 GB data. And I must tell the service and concept is excellent. I really like this smartbytes system. Also, if we visit the smartbytes site we can see how much data we have used and how much is still available.
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