As an Indian, I don’t consider IT to be a savior of the country. Just don’t. Sure it THE fastest growing sector, and booming along with mobile and internet penetration in the country, but its known as a place for cheap labor, and not otherwise. India probably needed such a boom for its economic revival, but at what cost? The companies hire in thousands, dumping the freshers right out of college in one of their many development sheds, where they code as zombies all day, day after day. And the sad part is, they don’t mind it!
As many would know, Airtel has implemented their so called Fair Usage Policy(FUP) that puts sever limits on the data transfer on unlimited connections. This, coming from the most reputed ISP in India has literally shocked many users, including me. I have sworn by Airtel for their quality of service for 3 and half years, and happily recommended it to various other friends/relatives.
But this FUP puts an end to all the goodwill they created. Not only is it outright cheating, it also defeats the very point of unlimited connections. And in a country like India where internet is slowly expanding, it is a major roadblock.
To view the complete details of the policy, visit this page
To view the draft of an online petition, created by members of http://broadbandforum.in, visit this page
Sign the online petition against the policy here