Guys,
The wait is now officially over:
Airtel now offers 8Mbps of raw speed, details could be found here:
*economictimes.indiatimes.com/News_...ps_broadband_in_India/articleshow/2446794.cms
wow RENTAL ????
RAW????
cmon i want details
i hope airtel soon comes to my area.
but its no prob as im shifting soon.
par 8Mbps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have airtel gone nuts?
I m awaiting when Data1 will do the same on cheaper rates!
no use guyz, 8 mbps is with da FU**ING 8GB limit.
wait till jan.
MTNL will surely launch 4-12 mbps plans.
So nahi raha airtel ko sulane ke taiyaari kar rahe hai MTNL aur BSNL.
^^ Mumbai is not in this list?
these guys r nuts, 2000 for 8gb, this is what sucks in india they think they are soooo smart cant download more than this , that blah! they should learn at least SOMETHING from countries like usa
is delhi in the list?
and is NU available in 8mbps plans?
yea delhi+ncr.
yarr ye kaise ho sakta hai Delhi mein na aaye.Delhi is the capital city and don't ever forget commonwealth games(blessing for delhites).
but is NU available on 8mbps.
without UL or NU plans 8mbps is trash and crap.
32 GB DLed with 2mbps NU.
who needs 8mbps with 8GB limit?
MTNL must launch a 4mbps UL plan.
Hmmm.....
5mb=5sec
60mb=1 minute
3.5Gb=one hour
84gb=1 day
2.5TB=1 month
84 GB per day????/
if 1 extra MB costs 1 rs.
then ur bill at this rate wud be arnd Rs.2500000 per month if u DL 80 GB per day as there is only 8gb limit .
^ speed is inversely proportional to download limit & money
am happy with my dataone 256kbps unlimited.
Naah i am waiting for edge ,3g or even 4 g to come
4G in India?????
2015 se pehle forget it.
Airtel rocks again.........
Yaa...I agree with you all that download limit S**ks.Airtel should consider regarding this.But tariff will depend on TRAI, and singtel (a Singapore company from which Airtel buys bandwidth).
Tariff should be moderate for this download speed. Rs. 2000 for 8 GB is really going to be very bad decision from Airtel.
Hey
2 MBPS + NU
Which Isp ?
Rental ?
Airtel Does Not Provide It SO..............
I dont think that Airtel has done anything wrong with 8GB limit .. yea its a bit less but .. they to have to earn isnt it ..
this is great news...i use bsnl dataone, and i am sure bsnl will announce something very soon at a competitive price...
I find 2mbps cool enuf for me...5.5GB in one night is more than what I need to download...That makes it around 160GB in a month...though i download only about 30GB...
8mbps is just freaking hell...But i guess Airtel has been choosy about cities to make sure that it provides 8mbps in only those cities which have good infrastructure to ensure quality of service...thats what i like most about them..
Only time will tell ki 8mbps me kitna milta hai ultimately..
U dont need 8 MBps for surfing.. Even 256 Kbps will do it..
8 Mbps line with just 8 GB limit for 2000
BAD Deal..
Ehhh
yeah u r rite.
8mbps is for DL ing and not surfing.
we need a 8mbps UL plan.
but not for more than 2500.
ill be happy if they can upgrade my 128k UL plan to the likes of a 512 or a 1 Mbps plan even xD
Airtel announces launch of 8 Mbps broadband in India
BANGALORE: Airtel, on Wednesday announced the launch of eight Mbps broadband service, becoming the first service provider in the country to offer such high speed broadband service.
Announcing the launch of the new product, Bharti Airtel President (Broadband and Telephone Services) Atul Bindal said with this the Airtel broadband customers could now browse multiple windows and at the same time, download heavy files, view streaming video, enjoy online gaming, chat, email and other applications.
Currently the speeds on offer, range from 256 KBps to 4Mbps. With the new speed offering, Airtel has pioneered a revolution in internet experience, he said.
"Airtel customers will no longer have to wait for a video to get buffered while watching streaming videos. They would be able to download a 5 Mb music file in five seconds flat as compared to 160 seconds on a 256 kbps connection," according to P V V Srinivas Roa, Chief Marketing Officer.
Airtel's eight Mbps broadband service will initially be available in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi and the NCR, with a subsequent roll out in Mumbai and Hyderabad in a few weeks.
The offering would be commercially available soon, he said, adding the price points of this offering is still being worked out. However, roughly the price point could be around Rs 2,000 for a download of 7-8 Gbs.
Tariff plans and product offerings are also being worked out to enable customers, who do not want a 24-hour eight mpbs speed but want them for certain applications or a short duration of time, to avail the new offering.
Airtel's objective while finalising the tariff plan for the new offering would not be to make it very expensive but rather to achieve a deeper penetration and to open the market, said Bindal.
"The aim of this offering is to reach out to the mass consumers, especially homes, SMES and youth in particular."
The plans worked out would enable the existing customers of a lower speed broadband services to upgrade their services. "We are looking at a segment of `speed on demand', he said.
Airtel has invested in the back-end infrastructure to deliver these speeds.
It already has a Carier Ethernet Network oprational in Delahi, Bangalore and CHennai. In the next phase Mumbai too would be upgraded to CEN.
CEN allows not only provisioning of high speed plans to broadband customers but also delivery of triple play services. In the other cities, the SDH network has been upgraded to deliver four and 8 Mbps speeds.
"With the 8Mbps speed, our network will also be IPTV ready," he said adding the pilot run at NCR had been going on successfully and once the clarity on government regulatory came through, Airtel would be in a position to launch the service in NCR and subsequently in other places.
Keeping up with changing times and needs, Airtel's business is witnessing a transformation from being voice centric to broadband. "There was an attempt to upgrade the value chain and to offer services of world class quality."
Elaborating on Airtel's advantage in pioneering the service, he said, Airtel being one of the thoroughly integrated operators, was something it could leverage on in addition to its existing infrastructure.
Source:EconomicTimes
Re: Airtel announces launch of 8 Mbps broadband in India
there is a thread running already
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70320
Reporting...
it will be better if they revised there plan such as
128 kbps 250
256 kbps 500
1 mbps 1000
2 mbps 1500
and all unlimited rather than introducing 8 mbps plan with limits
Their current plan of 512 kpbs unlimited for 1999 looks more attractive. No cap
how much upload speed should one expect?
If you really want to see BSNL service come to Mangalore. Half the time the BSNL DSL line in our college is down. They don't seem to be able to figure out why. Speeds are erratic to say in the least. And they took real long to introduce the 900 UL plan which so many users talk about, at least a year after AirTel did.
i wonder why people still sing praises for MTNL. ive tried MTNL for 4 months and on a 256k plan i only managed to get speeds like 96k, and all efforts with the customer service went in vain. unke kaano par juu nahin rengtee. if you are getting the stipulated speeds on ur MTNL, then your downright lucky. it may be an area thing though, but little did they try to remove the said problem.
^^^^^^^
haha my post came in between
.....i guess....Rapidshare will be most worried for that 
