Airtel hikes Mobile Office prices!

This is an sms i received from Airtel today
"Dear Customer, currently you are charged a daily rental of Rs.7 for GPRS. Effective 27 Aug.07. Charges for GPRS are revised to Rs.14.99/day Airtel GPRS is still most economical option for internet access compared to DialUp,Cable etc.If u still wish to deactivate the service, sms GPRSDEACT to 222"
When i started to read this message, i expected to see a drop in price in the current price. But when i saw 14.99/day, my jaw went somewhere in the vicinity of the floor. This is outrageous! How can they do this to us? I've been using MO since past 2 years only because it was super cheap and unlimited. And now they suddenly double the price. What were they smokin? I don't have Ambani for a surname. 15 rupees is way to much. Its even higher than the earlier 12/day rate. I certainly won't be able to afford to pay 15 rupees per day (450/month ). Only option for me is to discontinue MO. No MO, no net. No net, no thinkdigit. It was nice knowing you all.

[Charan]

Originally Posted by krazyfrog

Only option for me is to discontinue MO. No MO, no net. No net, no thinkdigit. It was nice knowing you all.

You can always switch your provider. Try Hutch, Idea and others

[fun2sh]

Airtel sucks. they are increasin price of everything and closin all free things, for example they closed free sms plan here in BANGALORE

[Manshahia]

hey its rs 19 here in punjab..

[Pathik]

Bloody sh1t... First of all the MO speeds suck.. Now they r increasing the price too...
Seems like my net ll be gone too... but i didnt receive any such sms..
krazy r u on normal prepaid or lifetime???
and Dont worry krazy i m with u..
Bye bye Internet, Bye bye Digit, Bye bye All

[pushkaraj]

Originally Posted by krazyfrog

This is an sms i received from Airtel today
"Dear Customer, currently you are charged a daily rental of Rs.7 for GPRS. Effective 27 Aug.07. Charges for GPRS are revised to Rs.14.99/day Airtel GPRS is still most economical option for internet access compared to DialUp,Cable etc.If u still wish to deactivate the service, sms GPRSDEACT to 222"
When i started to read this message, i expected to see a drop in price in the current price. But when i saw 14.99/day, my jaw went somewhere in the vicinity of the floor. This is outrageous! How can they do this to us? I've been using MO since past 2 years only because it was super cheap and unlimited. And now they suddenly double the price. What were they smokin? I don't have Ambani for a surname. 15 rupees is way to much. Its even higher than the earlier 12/day rate. I certainly won't be able to afford to pay 15 rupees per day (450/month ).

Even i have been a victim of this situation. There was a time when i used to boast about airtel coz of its gprs being as cheap as 7rs/day and unlimited download. Even though i use a nokia 6600, a stone-age phone as compared to my friends' phones like n73 and w810i, still they ate humble pie when it came to gprs. With airtel gprs, it was literally like "Karlo duniya mutthi mein"...

Alas those days are gone.......

Originally Posted by krazyfrog

Only option for me is to discontinue MO. No MO, no net. No net, no thinkdigit. It was nice knowing you all.

Originally Posted by pathiks

Dont worry krazy i m with u..
Bye bye Internet, Bye bye Digit, Bye bye All

............
Switch over to NOP just wat i m probably gonna do

[Pathik]

But NOP is too fkin slow... also it has many other probs...
also no more apps like profimail, implus etc etc..

@charangk- All others are more expensive than Airtel. They charge on the basis of data transfered+monthly rentals. While Airtel only charges on per day basis with no monthly rentals, plus its unlimited.
pathik i'm a lifetime user.

[pushkaraj]

Originally Posted by pathiks

But NOP is too fkin slow... also it has many other probs...
also no more apps like profimail, implus etc etc..

Yeah but then u can always access digit on pc thru proxy. Use opera. It works. Worth 2 bucks. And c'mon pathiks, we need u and krazyfrog and other members.

[kumarmohit]

A Hike of more than 100%

No wonder I detest Airtel like anything

[Pathik]

There ll be a big outrage soon.. many people take airtel sims to use the gprs only.. btw even i m a lifetime user..
i hope vodafone comes in soon and brings good gprs plans..

[max_demon]

Originally Posted by krazyfrog

@charangk- All others are more expensive than Airtel. They charge on the basis of data transfered+monthly rentals. While Airtel only charges on per day basis with no monthly rentals, plus its unlimited.
pathik i'm a lifetime user.

hey , what is the price of unlimited plan?is that plan available in maharastra

[ratedrsuperstar]

i too am on gprs but haven't got any such mess. btw how are some of yall plans 7rs/day mine is 11.99/day and i have to sms 511 for activation?

[almighty]

omg....
but i don get any sms or any such news here....
hope airtel is not gonna raise dere rental to all states...
it seems for some particulat states only....
In jamshedpur we have only montly plan ie rs.249/month UL
am getting the best speed with Airtel after some tweaks....
If it raise for rs400 too i am ready for them coz am getting good speed and i the part is moblility which cant be compared with any dial up or bb

[mandar5]

Pathiks and Krazyfrog plz dont say this ,u r gods of this forum,without u thinkdigit ki jaan chali jayegi!Btw theres ul plan from dolphin/trump for 400rs i will let u know in 1-2 days.I think we have 27th as deadline for deactivating MO.

[Gigacore]

hey krazyfrog, you are bit lucky, in Bangalore it 20 Rs per day i use Airtel online and browse via opera. i use MO only on sundays. and i used MO free for 5 months due to some fault

I think they only increased the price for Mumbai subscribers. Bloody hell! What do they think we Mumbaiites have bottomless wallets or something?
@pushkraj, mandar5 thanks for your comments guys.

[Cool G5]

Seriously now MO is of no use.
Forget Net,thinkdigit & get back to serious studies.

[infra_red_dude]

this was expected. first they scrapped the sms offer, then increased call rates, then lowered the talktime on recharge now even the gprs services are hit! that is bad..and that is really bad. i think we should drag these ******** to consumer court. this is daylight robbery! all service providers are minting money thru the nokia battery enquiry, then they also get to suck the customers on national and state holidays by charging re.1 per sms. cellphone usage is going to dogs in this country!

[gxsaurav]

Isn't Hutch/Idea providing that Rs 5/day for unlimited GPRS plan anymore?

[Pathik]

^^ Not hutch mumbai..

[Gigacore]

its 10 ps for 10 kb here by hutch

[assasin]

here charges r still 249/month UL.but speeds hav hit an alltime low of 1-1.5kBps max for more than 2 weeks.most of the time i get dl speeds in Bps.also EDGE stays deactivated.Airtel is no longer provides quality service.

[sandeepk]

In Maharashtra except Mumbai they are charging Rs.12/day. It was mere Rs.5/day when I bought my connection with Airtel. But soon they increased it to current rate. So I discontinued using it.

[Akshay]

Well!!!! BSNL is d cheapest in Maharashtra. Evn 4 Maharashtra circle airtel must have/must b planing 2 increase d rental.

BSNL offers d same speed, bettr connectivity at just Rs.199/pm for unlimited usage!!! Thnkfully I shifted to BSNL b4 Airtel cud eat into my pocket...

Mumbai ppl must b having something similar to BSNL frm MTNL....

Y dont u ppl try using Maharashtra card in mumbai (after confirming BSNL wont charge roaming GPRS in Mumbai)

[almighty]

^^^ Akshay
hey we know about BSNL's gprs plan but never had any experience so we don like to take chance with BSNL...
cud u plz tell us more about BSNL gprs?
means howz the speed and other infos....
so that we can think for BSNL, Does BSNL provide EDGE? I think this comes in Postpaid only... not for prepaid user....isint

[deathvirus_me]

Airtel MO SUCKS (as of now) .. my opinion :

2 years ago : Rs 99 INR , unlimited , awesome browsing and downloading .. peaked at around 12-14 KBps with Motorola C350/C650 , and at around 32-34 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping (some ip i don't remember now) was around 200

after some time : Rs 249 , unlimited , slow browsing , but consistent downloading .. peaked at around 28-30 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping around 350

after introducing EDGE : same price , unlimited , slow browsing , slow downloading , peaked at around 16-18 KBps with Nokia 6681 , ping around 850

Recent Plan : Rs. 499 , unlimited , slow browsing , slow downloading , peaks at around 14-18 KBps ... donno what happened coz i shifted to BB ..

What a joke .. i presume the next step will be to make the data transfer limited. .. lol ..

[almighty]

Originally Posted by deathvirus_me

What a joke .. i presume the next step will be to make the data transfer limited. .. lol ..

agreed LOL
well said mate...me to uses MO since its rental was only 99 ....

I feel that MO speeds have increased sisce yesterday. Usually at night MO would totally stop working due to network congestion. But not since yesterday. I guess they've upgraded the network a bit and thats why hiked their prices. But still 15/day is too much money. Whats the point of improving gprs when half the cutomers have deactivated it?

[almighty]

^^^
imo speed increased coz lots of cc are disconneting MO
as number of user decrease : Bytes increase
coz we airtel use dynamic ip... and as per airtel cc exe bytes are shared among the numbers of users are active that time