This article is no diss on +Aircel, but a desperate attempt to get their attention.
Before we get into the topic, I have few things to say for the people from ou!@#$%^&*()__+/* t. Mobile phones saw exponential growth only in mid of the last decade in India. The mobile range was within few kilometers of city and the villages were void of any cellular networks. In around 2007 and 2008, Aircel established cell phone towers in most parts of Tamil Nadu villages and hence almost everyone who got a cell phone connection in country side of tamilnadu went with +Aircel . Many customers switched from +BSNL , the PSU telecom service provider to aircel during this time. Changing the number wasn't big thing then. So Companies like +Airtel India , +Aircel , + +Idea gained a lot since people thought BSNL wasn't just good. At that time, that seemed like good decision. The cost was cheaper with private companies. Later those companies like +Airtel India started deducting balances from customers' account for the so called Value Added Services. In Order to increase their revenue, they call the cx, play some recorded voice and if customers' press a key, they will start taking the money. This nuisance continued for long time until TRAI enforced strict NDNC and telemarketing guidelines. If that wasn't made, shareholders of these Indian Telecos would have easily beaten Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and who not. Still this nuisance continues but in lesser amount. So Now they started providing worst service that one could offer.
Even a lunatic might say that EDGE offers data transfer rate ranging between 100 and 250. This was the speed offered by most of the companies few years back. But now +Aircel like companies stoop so low and offer speed between 400 bytes per second and 4 kbps. I don't know the reason behind it. May be it is for pushing people to use costier 3G data or maybe just to frustrate them. But still some companies like BSNL offer quality services. If I am using the +Aircel Edge, it would have took me a million years to post this blog post. I am not exaggerating.
If you are in India, switch to BSNL (http://bsnl.co.in/) asap.
Before we get into the topic, I have few things to say for the people from ou!@#$%^&*()__+/* t. Mobile phones saw exponential growth only in mid of the last decade in India. The mobile range was within few kilometers of city and the villages were void of any cellular networks. In around 2007 and 2008, Aircel established cell phone towers in most parts of Tamil Nadu villages and hence almost everyone who got a cell phone connection in country side of tamilnadu went with +Aircel . Many customers switched from +BSNL , the PSU telecom service provider to aircel during this time. Changing the number wasn't big thing then. So Companies like +Airtel India , +Aircel , + +Idea gained a lot since people thought BSNL wasn't just good. At that time, that seemed like good decision. The cost was cheaper with private companies. Later those companies like +Airtel India started deducting balances from customers' account for the so called Value Added Services. In Order to increase their revenue, they call the cx, play some recorded voice and if customers' press a key, they will start taking the money. This nuisance continued for long time until TRAI enforced strict NDNC and telemarketing guidelines. If that wasn't made, shareholders of these Indian Telecos would have easily beaten Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and who not. Still this nuisance continues but in lesser amount. So Now they started providing worst service that one could offer.
Even a lunatic might say that EDGE offers data transfer rate ranging between 100 and 250. This was the speed offered by most of the companies few years back. But now +Aircel like companies stoop so low and offer speed between 400 bytes per second and 4 kbps. I don't know the reason behind it. May be it is for pushing people to use costier 3G data or maybe just to frustrate them. But still some companies like BSNL offer quality services. If I am using the +Aircel Edge, it would have took me a million years to post this blog post. I am not exaggerating.
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| This is what has loaded in a page after 11 minutes with a Indian Private telecoms' network. It was not the issue with webpage. |
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| A Graph showing Data Transfer Rate |
If you are in India, switch to BSNL (http://bsnl.co.in/) asap.