Whoever you are, with full fledged respect, I intend to ask you that are you even a graduate? Are you even an Indian & live in India? If yes then you do know what's right about the current move the telecom companies are trying to make to fill their pockets. Now let me let you know about the scenario if you are unaware of it. 

Most of the people who'll be hit by this overpriced internet plans will be the middle class and the lower middle class. Even the person who came to fit tiles in my home uses a Samsung Galaxy S Duos of which the price is INR 6500-8500 in the market. He too uses Facebook, Whatsapp & even he knows how to Google. He has a daily salary of around INR 500-750 which fluctuates as on how many people are availing his services. Even he uses an INR 98 3G BSNL internet plan as it's affordable for him and meets his monthly needs. His father died when he was young and he somehow raised himself by working as a construction worker alomg with his elder brother. Now why am I even telling you this? Because his father wanted him to be a cop & so he is working for it. Attends night schools and works in the day and searches almost from nothing to everything online to be of that calibre. Almost 45% users belong to the middle class or classes even lower. Except for a few like my 'Tiles-wala', they hardly even dare to use 3G until and unless it is being offered by the company for free.. For a nascent telecom market like ours, this is nothing but a big blunder that you're charging that simplistic class of people almost INR 50 extra just for Facebook. Even the auto-walas use Facebook these days. How can you think they'll afford this.

Coming to my personal consumptions. I am a student and my dad is a PSU employee and has a current salary of INR 10,00,000. I am a college student and I regularly use Whatsapp even for exchanging notes. I use Youtube too if I find a topic in my syllabus that is disturbing me even after looking into several books. I use the site mit.ocw.edu( if you're not that illiterate as what MIT is!) which streams from Youtube too for some visual lectures. My father is 53 and fairly gets INR 65000-70000 after deductions. He hardly saves INR 10000 every month. Now for a tax ridden working class like ours, how do you expect such an overcharging to be fair. It's not USA where average salary of a person is $20000, it's India where those who earn below INR 71 in urban areas are considered poor.

Even if the plans are good, how good are they? We get a theoritical 3.6 Mbps speed in India for a plan of INR 451 which offers 2 GB data in Idea and unlimited for INR 950 (6 GB at 3.6 Mbps= 450 KBps and then at 80 kbps but actually you get no more than 190 KBps ). In dollars they stand as $7.2 & $15.2 respectively. In USA Sprint offers unlimited 3G plans for $30 for average speeds of 10 Mbps.

So jumping to the conclusion, Indian companies overcharge us like shit and give us facilities like shit and then we have splendid plan makers of India who are nothing but unfortunately, shit! So if you are, then it may not concern you. If you are not, then you know atleast now that what the scenario is. As for me, I stand against this capitalistic policy.

Rishabh Paul