Why Airtel and other ISP in India implement Fair Usage

Policy on their broadband plans?

I think this question is present in the mind of every broadband users that why ISP put restriction on the data transfer in almost every plan they offer. There is always a large pool of bandwidth available to these ISP at any time but in case they offer true unlimited plans than this will abused by many users through out India.

The main reasons for implementing a fair usage policy are listed below:-

Piracy in India through torrents:

Believe me or not, India is one of the largest piracy hub of the world. Though there are laws to stop and curb piracy but they are not effective enough to stop this menace. People in India usually abuse their broadband service to download large amount of data which include movies, games and music. Not only this, Indians also feel proud to say that they have downloaded this 100 GB of data in this month.

As a example i will refer to this site broadbandforum<.>in (remove ankle brackets). In this site you will see a lot of people sharing how many GB’s of data they have downloaded in a particular month.

So it is clearly a network abuse. You congesting a network and hamper the service of other users by taking large chunks of bandwidth for yourself. Not only this, there are many people out there who keep their computer ON for 24 x 7  and download heavy HD stuff and at the end of the month they are proud to say that they have downloaded large amount of HD stuff.

This practice of downloading heavy piracy data hamper the service of other users to a much greater extent. Many users use broadband service to watch YouTube videos, browse websites or to play multiplayer games. But their experience gets ruined by these downloaders and pirates.

I use my broadband connection mainly to play online games bu not even a single time my ping reaches two digit. This is so pathetic but i can’t do any thing . Due to network wide abuse, ping to even local servers reaches sky high.

So all those people on various forums who are asking and abusing ISP for not providing true unlimited plans should blame themselves for this situation.