Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India — On the fairness of Fair Usage Plan (FUP), in Mobile Internet domain

Address:

Nagpur, Maharashtra

To whom so ever it may concern [protected][protected]------- Sub: Regarding the current Fair Usage Policy of Mobile Internet Respected Sir, Here I would like to draw your attention on few points regarding the ongoing Fair Usage Policy (FUP) in Mobile Internet domain. Point1: With the growth of Javascript libraries like JQuery for more UI features, more images, the expected size of web pages are to exceed 2300 KB by the end of the 2014, which is a 44% growth compared to 2013 i.e about 1650KB. Some statistics on the growth of average page size 965 kilobytes 2012 census, 2011 average of 702KB. Starting from 14KB in 1995, 93KB by 2003, and 300KB in 2008 and so on. Please mind it that all data are in BYTES and NOT in bits. Now with current FUP of 256 Kilo BITS (NOT Bytes) per second speed, how much time do we need to load an average page? Its (2300x8)/256 = 72 seconds approx...i.e OVER ONE MINUTE ON AN AVERAGE. Forget about the "Heavy" web surfing, like watching educational video lectures on NPTEL! This calculation is ignoring the FACT that speed is NEVER 256kbps but rather is actually @125kbps on avg. And with that speed, it actually would take OVER TWO MINUTES PER PAGE to load, ON AVG ... Point 2: Suppose one spends his hard earned money of Rs. 650 to get (a popular "unlimited plan") with 3GB limit of FUP and validity of 1 month.Now before the FUP limit, net speed would be of around 1.6Mbps = 1600kbps, on an average (even though its told to be of 7.2Mbps speed). How much time does the service provider wants him to use net without FUP?Its (3x1024x1024x8)/1600 = 15729 sec approx. = 4.37 hrs in all, in a WHOLE MONTH!!! And Thats it!! We have 30x24=720 hrs in a month... and how much they want him to be online with descent connection speed? a mere 0.61% of the duration ... Above two points shake my belief in the fairness of the "Fair Usage Policy". I request you to look into the points and resolve the issue. Please clarify if my perception is incomplete in any respect. Thanking You Yours Sincerely Abhinav