Airtel, in a reply to TRAI’s draft paper on FUP policy, rejects the direction of ensuring 512kbps as minimum broadband speed for both mobile and fixed line subscribers. Airtel also states in the letter addressed to TRAI that a “service provider should be free to throttle the speed to 64kbps after the expiry of assigned data limit to the customer”. The letter further opines ‘that there cannot be any mandate for providing minimum speed’ for customer who have chosen a limited plan, since ‘only a fixed data quota is provided in case of limited plans’. Airtel adds that in case the subscriber chooses a Fair Usage Plan, the subscriber is ‘no longer treated as a broadband subscriber’, once the customer passes the assigned data quota. “Hence a service provider should be free to throttle the speed to 64kbps after the expiry of assigned data limit to the customer”. Airtel's demand will literally take us back in time to the age of dial up modems. Here's a little reminder of how that felt. While, Clause 4(c) of the TRAI’s paper on FUP policy states: “ensure that download speed of broadband service provided to the fixed broadband subscriber is not reduced below 512 kbps in any broadband tariff plan”. ‘Customer might misuse the minimum broadband provision’ Airtel also states in the same letter that some customers could misuse the minimum broadband speed provision and ‘tend to overuse the data limit in their quota’. It also adds that the cost to provide broadband…
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