Sad News Airtel Xstream Broadband has now hard-capped it's plan speeds

[Ashok Varma]

What about prepaid?

Prepaid plans are without OTT+Tv

 

[Zuke]

@TheAndroidFreak Hmm, yes, the situation has not improved much for Vi. I don't think they have money to improve things much. The only thing which has improved is their ping. Earlier, Idea used to give 200-250ms for Indian servers and 300-350ms for Singapore servers, but now it is most around the same as Airtel.

Airtel has improved their network though. And Jio is just on another level. Even small villages have great network and you will even get Jio 5G in villages. I was travelling to a city yesterday and there were many small towns and some rural areas, including Naxalite-infested ones, but Jio 5G was constantly giving full network pretty much the whole time.

 

[Bapun]

Prepaid plans are without OTT+Tv

Which ISP are you talking about?

 

[dino29]

Jios Pros and Airtel Cons in FTTH is OTT bundling & Live TV. We can login with Sony or Zee or Sun apps in multiple devices with Jio fiber, where as Airtel only allowed in xstream app. and Rs.350/- worth of DTH channels (approx.15 HD channels on a la carte basis) are low comparing to Jiotv+ 50+HD and some 4k channels.

Bhai, again u r wrong.... 1stly Airtel provides 25 OTT Apps in its XStream Play subscription while Jio provides just 13, secondly in Airtel Broadband / XStream Fiber one gets 350 worth of TV Channels ( one can pick any DPO, Language pack and A La Carte channels) alongwith XStream Play subscription and Even Disney+Hotstar subscription.....pricing is Rs. 699 + tax and in many towns/cities same is available at Rs. 599+ tax


Now coming to the part of limited DPO Bouquets being available for Airtel Black DTH combo plan customers, well 4 DPO bouquets r available and 2 r mid range and other 2 mega bouquets containing all channels (one is containing just TV Channels while other variant has TV + Netflix / Amazon Prime Video OTT pack).... These include all channels, ofcourse in mid range packs one will not get all HD channels but we do get its SD feed and same is the case with bouquets available with various operators though some have more variants wherein all mass viewed TV Channels r included ( Hindi or Other Regional Language HD channels based on what pack one opts for) but these cost more..... Airtel earlier gave such variants too for Airtel Black customers but later discontinued them but still it is not a big issue

 

[dino29]

Prepaid plans are without OTT+Tv

Jio does provide OTT + TV Channels via with Jio TV with its prepaid plans

 

[Bapun]

I heard that Airtel has now more aggressively implemented their hard capping across various states all over India.

 

[Zuke]

I heard that Airtel has now more aggressively implemented their hard capping across various states all over India.

Yeah, saw plenty of people getting much less speed than they should. Too much speed fluctuations for many people.

 

[Esmail]

I heard that Airtel has now more aggressively implemented their hard capping across various states all over India.

I just checked and yes indeed where I used to get 48 Mbps on my 40 Mbps plan I now get only 40 Mbps so no more 20% extra bandwidth. It was good while it lasted

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

I heard that Airtel has now more aggressively implemented their hard capping across various states all over India.

Yes. True. Only Excitel and ACT doesn't have caps now. Tata is also having hardcap on most of their plans.

 

[React]

Bhai, again u r wrong.... 1stly Airtel provides 25 OTT Apps in its XStream Play subscription while Jio provides just 13, secondly in Airtel Broadband / XStream Fiber one gets 350 worth of TV Channels ( one can pick any DPO, Language pack and A La Carte channels) alongwith XStream Play subscription and Even Disney+Hotstar subscription.....pricing is Rs. 699 + tax and in many towns/cities same is available at Rs. 599+ tax


Now coming to the part of limited DPO Bouquets being available for Airtel Black DTH combo plan customers, well 4 DPO bouquets r available and 2 r mid range and other 2 mega bouquets containing all channels (one is containing just TV Channels while other variant has TV + Netflix / Amazon Prime Video OTT pack).... These include all channels, ofcourse in mid range packs one will not get all HD channels but we do get its SD feed and same is the case with bouquets available with various operators though some have more variants wherein all mass viewed TV Channels r included ( Hindi or Other Regional Language HD channels based on what pack one opts for) but these cost more..... Airtel earlier gave such variants too for Airtel Black customers but later discontinued them but still it is not a big issue

As Airtel xtream provides Rs.350/- worth dth plan, if I modify the pack to a monthly bill of Rs.200/-, will it reduce my monthly bill by Rs. 150/- ??