Airtel Boost for Broadband Users With Extra Data For Same Price

The telecom company plans to improve its network speeds up to 100Mbps in the coming months.

The Bharti Airtel office building in Gurgaon (Photo: Reuters)

Good news for Airtel home internet users in the country. Now all its broadband users will get double their original data quota.

So, users on Rs 899 plan will now get 60GB instead of the original 30GB which was offered to them earlier. The double your data offer comes on the back of an earlier offer when free data was given to its postpaid users around Holi this year.

Calling it the ‘100 percent more data offer,’ Airtel claims that all its users on the V-Fiber network will get speeds up to 100Mbps.

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This announcement could be Airtel’s way of countering the imminent launch of Jio’s Fiber broadband in the country. Jio has already started trial testing its 1Gbps internet service across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Chennai, among others.

By offering extra data on its broadband network, Airtel would be hoping to not let Jio do to broadband what it did to mobile internet in 2016.

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But it is quite possible that Airtel is not only prepping up the stage to rival Jio Fiber, but to counter the existence of brands like Spectranet, Excitel and ACT Fibernet.

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The broadband landscape in India has changed for good over the past year or so, with prices coming down, but the speeds only getting faster.