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Broadband Internet Reaches 50 MBps

The Broadband Internet service in India lags behind that of other countries where downloading gigabytes of data is literally matter of minutes. The situation has not been very encouraging for the Indian users who still have to spend hours for downloading media files and software. Till a few days back, the highest data rate provided by broadband operators used to hover around 8 MBps mark. Things are going to change for the better for the Indian customers as leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel is unleashing an unprecedented 50 MBps broadband service in select regions in the country.

The residents of Delhi and Gurgaon will be able to avail the high speed broadband Internet service offered by Airtel as of now. However, with such massive speed the service is going to come at a steep cost for the users. There are two data plans offered by the company. The customers can opt for the 30 Mbps plan or the 50 MBps one. For the 50 MBps data plan, the users would have to churn out Rs. 8999 a month while the other plan can be availed after paying Rs. 7999 a month.



Airtel is offering a data usage limit of 200 GB for free with the 50MBps broadband internet plan. It is quite obvious that both these plans are better suited for the business users compared to the home users. Later, the data plans will be offered in metro cities like Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, as the company has revealed. It will also force other internet service providers to revamp their packages.

source : http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/broadband-internet-reaches-50-mbps/

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