Airtel has become the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) to provide 8 Mbps broadband to India. Currently, the speeds on offer range from 256 Kbps to 4 Mbps. Users will be able to download a 5 MB music file in 5 seconds flat as compared to 160 seconds on a 256 kbps connection.
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.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. It already has a Carrier Ethernet Network operational in Delhi, 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.
Source : Indiatimes
hmm thanks I have already noted this and had called them up to inquire they said please call back after two to three weeks to get further details.
I have posted this as well.
Wow that’s great news but in my area there are only fews ISP providers 🙂 Thanks Amit
Kudos to Airtel.
But the reach of airtel broadband service is very limited. In kerala, they have presence only at Kochi. where as BSNL’s DataOne has already reached at the panchayath levels. Hope Bharti will take steps to get the villages of India connected.
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wooow!! thats awesome but I don’t think airtel will come in my locality 🙁
This is great new for Indians,any idea how much they will charge for this kind of speed?
Ha Ha! Bandwidth Restriction 😀 !!!
We have a 8 MBPS Line with Unlimited Bandwidth which costs around 25 Pounds (Rs.2100)! Now thats smart 🙂 ! Download speed is almost near to 5 MBPS.
Cheers!!
Oh thats very great, i am using 15kbps per second 🙁
This would be the only broadband company in india offering this internet speed.
This is bullshit. What possible application would be there.
Only if someone wants to chat on broadband for around 20 hours a day. This is useless for a daily user or donwloader.
You could download the entire limit in 3 hours.
this is very funny
giving high speed and restricting to low downloads 🙁
bloody business minds
waiting to see a response from bsnl 😀
this is totally a crap
giving full speed and telling dont drive long drive 🙁
waiting to see a response from bsnl 😀
I would love to see an unlimited 8Mbps plan being launched by airtel broadband in the near future as this 8mbps speed with a less then 10gb cap is no use to me and I guess all of you would agree with me on this.
Yeah….its a goood think to do with Indian Internet connection. Actually here in India internet connection is five times the cost that is available in US or UK. Here people aren’t able to even get 128KBPS unlimited connection as it’s priced at Rs.699/- PM where as in US 2MBPS unlimited connection is available for $25 i.e. Rs.1100/- PM & moreover Indian ISP’s don’t know that doubling the internet connection speed won’t just double Cost. So i think this 8MBPS unlimited internet connection here in India would cost 32000/-($760)PM then who will be able to get this connection, it would be costing a months salary!!!
Udit as per airtel officials the pricing of this service would be very much lower than your expectation.
in india it cant success.they should provide low cost unlimited even slow speed.why a normal person needs so much speed
OMG 2K is a bit high and that too not umlimited
BSnl broadband 2 Mbps is Only rocking at this time
3 plans 250 500 900 for home users 🙂
easy on Pocket , if Airtel can give 8 Mbps unlimited for 1 K i can burn lot of HDD’s
@ udit
the problem we have is infrastrucure and cost associated with it
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i want to take the airtel broadband connection ….what are the procedures & i also need the rates of this connection
its good to hear that airtel 8mbps finally stepped in, but at 2k and with downloads of less than 10gb limited, thats crappp!!!! The public needs high speed broaband connection for fast and unlimited downloads and not for browsing because a 256kbps connection is good enough for that. At that price airtel better have some answers for that.
oh…………….that is very great 2 use airtel and im very proud 2 use this system
BSNL is also offering 8Mbps connection now all over india and will soon offer for Home users too.
i can certainly predict, this plan won’t become favorite until it is slightly changed in its nature…to get customer some sacrifice is necessary. yes it may be 8mbps or little lower but as much the smoke , flame is not that much.
Ha Ha …
in india these providers are not even giving 256KBps-kilobytes still now(where as they r only giving 256Kbps-kilobits & now they are saying they will provide 8MBps.
hey dont believe in these provides they always lure the customers by some big words which doesnt do the actual thing.
everything turns out be hype. even the basic speed is to hard to expect. what is promised and what is delivered is totally different. its very frustating when u shell out so much money but not get your money’s worth. when you question this they say speed depends on various factors like RAM, traffic on the site etc etc…. well its totally frustating !!!
man its not the fault of service provider
that you get the speeds of not more than 256KBps, its all the role of server u r using for eg. if you download from servers like google n microsoft the speed is not less 1MBs. while if u download from servers
like bsnl the speed will be only 20- 20 KBps. hence 8MBs is only useful 4 those who use p2p appilications like torrent or those who do several things at a time.
wat a joke giving gold and saying do not take it
GOOD NEWS for tataindicom broadband users in BANGALORE.
Now u need to worry about wire cut , cable theft becoz VSNL has Launched wireless Broadband called
WiMax
The customers who is suffering from more down time or no isp providers available. Pls give End for these Problems.
Getting an Airtel Broadband connection in Karnataka for your homes or offices was never this easy.
No filling up long application forms and the paperwork anymore.
No waiting in the long Queues just to subscribe for internet broadband connection.
No waiting for 1 to 3 months just to get an broadband connection
Getting internet connection with absolutely no network downtime.
I’m a resident of Kerala,using airtel prepaid connection.
Can i use airtel broadband connection…..
Plz inform me on my email id:shintorichu@yahoo.com
Hi..am from cochin…do you know whether airtel 8 mbps broadband plan has launched in cochin…?? please send me the details to this mail id.. arunk@twininfosolutions.com
Hi,
i m from Gr. Noida.i want to get airtel broadband connection.so kindly try to send some information about this.
Thanx
Can someone tell me how this 8 MBPS is calculated? I just got an 8 MBPS connection and it takes much longer than the speed promised. My understanding is that on an 8 MBPS line an 8 MB File should take 1 second to download or upload. Therefore an 80 MB file should take 10 seconds. Howevere, it is taking nearly an hour! I am told that there is a 1/8 sharing so actual speeds are lower???? Any light on this would help.
Hi !
We have required a high speed and at-least 99% uptime guarnteed internet connection for our office for one mailserver (data trasfer around 300 MB/Day) and around 10 user browsing usages. could you advise me what will best option for our requirement.
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Hi,
Can airtel provided such high speed internets using edge data cards too?… [;-)]
in BSNL introduced NIC card facility , its Good as compared all other service , because every were BSNL connection available its wireless connection , per month 250 Rupess only , u can browse at any time.
fucking service by airtel people , they dont even know where all they have connectivity . i really had worst experience with it. they took money for installation and told in 3 days i ll get the connection .i waited for one week then call them back and the same day i recieved sms stating my application is processed and with 3 day i get it. but till 20 days i dint got any response from them. then again i call them back and ask about status they told there is no line in my area so they cant provide with connection….. fuckin service lke shit
Recently they updates the speed to double as well and I am luvin it airtel rocks…