Airtel Broadband: Airtel Movies now available on Airtel Broadband (Powered by BigFlix)

this is getting serious

first airtel makes a deal with youtube to use peering thereby waiving fup

and now this
The service would be powered by BigFlix. With this, customers can enjoy over 500 Movies along with 100 TV shows, 100 trailers and 100 music videos @just INR 229/month on their computer/laptop/tablet at home. The service can also be accessed on WiFi and movies can be enjoyed anywhere in the house. Whats more-the enjoyment is totally advertising-free and adds absolutely nothing towards bandwidth consumption charges.

this is internet bandwidth discrimination and violating of net neutraltiy.

Not even netflix USA is doing this.

netflix usa needs bandwidth and streams only if you have
"Netflix recommends that people stream its movies over a broadband connection with a speed of at least 1.5 megabits per second (1.5Mbps), and that people use an Internet connection of at least 3 megabits per second to get better-looking video on par with a DVD."


But airtel just like with their broadband tv and Indian Premier League matches are violating this as they are increasing speeds only on thier service

---------- Post added at 05:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:55 PM ----------

More info is needed on their streaming requirement but if they say that you can watch streaming on 256k with dvd quality then that is violating of net neutrality.

Airtel has started to make internet cable tv system but here thier own traffic would be prioritized.

if they are streaming from localized servers, i guess they can get around the network neutrality thing which is not even a law in our lovely country.

if airtel is indeed streaming from the regular bigflix servers, it is a bad idea.

and look at this discrimination
*The bandwidth consumption for watching ‘Airtel Movies’ will not add to the customers’ Broadband Plan data usage, except for users in Punjab.

And no they cant get around network neutrality as they are prioritizing their traffic over others thereby violating a level playing field.

here some explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jHOn0EW8U

so they probably have a technical or logistical problem in punjab.

is that you admin or a corporate PR?

you still have not given me any proof on network neutrality having a legal stand in india. i am all for it but from what i see we do not have any law related to it.

---------- Post added at 06:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:12 PM ----------

from what i see you need to target the government/trai first to establish some network neutrality laws before claiming that ISPs are in violation of some legal requirement.

of course, you would love to have network neutrality as a human right but apparently it is not one for the time being.

there are some free movies also available which i am able to play on my mtnl 3G connection :P

ah well. the service is powered by BigFlix so you can already check them out on the Bigflix website.

the difference here is that the bandwidth consumed would not be counted in your bill.