Airtel/Dialog Comparison – HSPA and MoBr …
OK, honestly, I can’t find any data packages on their website. I can find data devices. I’ve seen stuff in email or in comments here, but can’t verify that. And now the link to the Postpaid rates seems to be gone. I guess I’ll have to go to a store and find out.
Tagged as airtel, HSPA, mobile broadband + Categorized as General
I’ve contacted the customer care by e-mail and they gave me these details about the HSPA Packages!
Aitrtel Tariff – Data Plans
Data Plans
Effective Date 12/1/2009
Offer Validity Valid till further notice
Package Name Celebration 300
Activation Fee 500
Monthly Commitment 300
Free Data Bundle 1GB
Charges for usage above free bundle 1/2 cent per 1KB
SMS (A2A, A2O) 1
SMS international 5
Speed
Downlink 7.2 Mbps
Uplink 1 Mbps
Package Name Celebration 600
Activation Fee 500
Monthly Commitment 600
Free Data Bundle 3GB
Charges for usage above free bundle 1/2 cent per 1KB
SMS (A2A, A2O) 1
SMS international 5
Speed
Downlink 7.2 Mbps
Uplink 1 Mbps
Package Name Data Unlimited
Activation Fee 500
Monthly Commitment 1499
Free Data Bundle Unlimited
Charges for usage above free bundle -
SMS (A2A, A2O) 1
SMS international 5
Speed
Downlink 3.2 Mbps
Uplink 1 Mbps
Package Name Black Berry
Activation Fee 500
Monthly Commitment 699
Free Data Bundle N/A
Charges for usage above free bundle 1/2 cent per 1KB
SMS (A2A, A2O) 1
SMS international 5
Speed
Downlink 7.2 Mbps
Uplink 1 Mbps
Remarks
All charges are in SL Rupees and are excluding Gov Taxes & Levy.
Subscriber can choose to use data only in a package.
why dialog is worry about Airtel? if you have a good service you don’t need to talk about service in official dialog blog. People will review it, keep dialog works properly, don’t worry about airtel!
Now dialog share price is less than Rs 5. can you make a post about dialog share price variation!
@indi
you always worry about other companies! mind your own dialog shit, no need to worry about airtel web site. there should be enough people to sort that out. you cant do anything about that anyway since you could not do much about your own HSPA shit! so let them solve their problems, solve your problems first and if you dont have a topic go to unawatuna and sleep!
@Indi
http://www.kalingasblog.com/airtel/callcharges.jpg
@sanjan
Actually these dialog buggers are not working to improve the QOS in dialog.
As a company they don’t need to compare or talk about other companies errors or mistake.
First correct all dialog faults.
dialog share price
http://www.dialog.lk/en/corporate/ir/dial/dialinfo.html
why’s that?
Dudes, someone kept posting Airtel tariffs here on random threads, this Prasath fellow. Hence I opened up threads for them to that rather than messing up other discussions. That’s about all there is to it.
I talked to the Airtel customer care! They said, that they don’t have any Fair Usage Policy on the unlimited broadband package!!!
That’s why they have reduced their Downlink to 3.2 Mbps in the unlimited package.
Don’t worry. Real 3.2 Mbps will be much better than the Dialog 7.2 Mbps!!
@Prasath
Yeah, 3.6Mbps will be much better than very very slow Dialog 7.2Mbps as it’s unlimited.
As Indi mentioned to go for a TRUE Dialog unlimited very very slow BB package, have to spend nearly Rs.6000. So 3.6Mbps unlimited package without FUP for a price of Rs.1500 is really worth.
Dialogblogs talking about airtel rates is not a bad thing. If they consider the charges of other companies trying to make things better, it’s good. And this blog is also a nice attempt to give the users the chance to give feedback.The problem is whether Dialog actually consider what users have to say.
I also heard of Airtel Unltd. broadband internet pkg. As always I do not want to jump right away to Airtel ship. I’ll wait & see. I have signed a 6month agreement with Dialog to get around 4k reduction on my HSPA modem plus a provider lock
. As a good customer I’ll obey what I signed for “I’ll pay Dialog for 6 coming months (No matter whatever shitty service Dialog gives me)”. I am a good customer. The problem is whether Dialog deserve my goodwill.
And I have only three more months to go with that fucking agreement. And Dialog didn’t treat me well for being a good customer.
Time is flying dear Dialog….
kapila 10:41 am on January 18, 2009 | #
@All,
No offense to anyone. It’s not about which company is the best. After all most of the companies are charging us for providing a service.
Yes, I really don’t have to worry about SLT profit. [It's just I pointed out, it may be the customers are moving in between SLT and Mobitel]
I am a dialog customer [ Using a university broadband deal and blaster as well] As so many have poited out there are issues with the Dialog as well. Airtel had spelling mistakes in the tarrif plan so as the same in Dialog site my Dialog page had few minor mistakes. Also at times when dealing with broadband stuff Dialog isn’t doing a good job. [ I do accept all that without any doubt ]
However as I believe I’m not in a positions to move to Upahara as I’m employed in pvt company. so for me it’s out.
Then came Airtel and I didn’t wanted to just go for Airtel, even if they are giving a free sim. In my contact list out of 400 odd contacts there are only 50 to 60 Non-Dialog numbers. [Some of them are SLT numbers where I can call on there mobile as an alternative] So I’m heavily making calls to Dialog numbers.
Average in my case is as below,
Calls D2D – 700 minutes
Dto Non D – 100 minutes
SMS D2D – 30
Dto Non D – 20
[Approximately....]
So if I really analyse with those numbers. It’s not going too add any value to me rather I will have to pay more to Airtel. [So I ll stick to Dialog Blaster]
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@ kapila
for example we can consider your bill. total bill with out taxes will be
rental 300
D2D 00
D2ND 300
sms 70
total 670
if you use airtel for same calls
rental 00
A2D 1400
A2 OTHER CALLS 200
SMS 50
TOTAL 1650
DISCOUNT1200
TOTAL PAYABLE WOULD BE THE MINIMUM 600 PAYMENT! YOU HAVE TO PAY LESS TOTAL!
Hi guys,
AIRTEL coverage map & Data Rates
http://www.zshare.net/download/543892538b00caf6/
Approved Tariff for Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
http://www.trc.gov.lk/pdf/Airtel_tarrif.pdf
Approved Tariff Plans for Dialog Telekom Plc
http://www.trc.gov.lk/pdf/dialog_tariff.pdf
I moved from Dialog data unlimited to Airtel data card unlimited. Airtel one is around 1500 SLR (Including vat and etc. 1900 SLR) per month. No FUP (I’ve downloaded around 25GB since 17th-jan-2009). Maximum down-speed is 1.4mbps and it is most of the time stable (Not like dialog). Asked about their advertisement regarding 3.2mbps speed. They said as they have just launched and upgrading. They promised the real speed in near future (Not like dialog saying “Broadband is a shared Internet connection……….. bla bla bla……….). Anyway stable 1.4mbs without FUP is much more better than dialog for 1500+vat SLR (Dialog one is around 3000+vat SLR). With Dialog I got maximum speed of 1.4 with Huawei E220 but not stable. Most of the time I got around 600 to 800 kbps. Other important thing with dialog is that their indoor 3G coverage is very very poor comparing to Airtel and Mobitel.
Yes i agree dialog indoor 3g coverage is not up to the mark even in colombo. Where are you located ? How much is the AIRTEL data card ?
@Started liking Airtel!!
I Agree with u! I’m also using Airtel data card unlimited. It is cool. Coverage also very good comparing to Dialog!!!
How much is the AIRTEL Data Card ? its available in their store
@prasath I heard that Airtel is sharing Dialog towers. But it was a rumor, not verified. Keep updating about Airtel experience.
@ chanux
no. airtel shares mobitel towers
what would be the price of a USB dongle for accessing internet? mobitel had a promotion where they were being sold for about 10k (after 15% discount) – BENLUX- much smaller than the Huwawei. it was not network locked- so you vcan use it with any network bt simply changing the sim. how much is the dongle airtel is sellling? The one dialog is giving too is network locked.
Airtel is 9,950/-, Stocks are comming in 2 weeks
@ Chanux , Sanjan.
Most of the operators share towers, especially in areas where there is no room to construct new ones. I have seen Hutch sharing Dialog towers, Tigo sharing Dialog towers etc. U can notice this very well from the name boards on the towers. All 3 operators also share SLT towers sometimes. ( Eg: PONAGALA – Badulla District. )
Near our office, close to Polhengoda, Open University,
There is a Tower which transmits, Dialog, Suntel, Tigo & Airtel.
@Mario
is it network locked to airtel?
any idea whether we can get dongles from 3rd parties (pettah etc) which are not network locked and cheaper
@ Dhammika,
I think they are locked. Yes you can get from Pettah.
But you can also use ur existing 3 / 3.5G mobile. You have to get a separate DATA SIM from them, & subscribe to a DATA package.
Airtel is the best! I will change to it as soon as I finish dialog’s six month contract period!
@Mario
I heard that Airtel Data Packages are only available in Colombo, is it? Aren’t they available in Kandy? BTW I want to switch from Dialog to Airtel.
@ kika
KANDY City is 3.5 G covered by AIRTEL. But ull have to double check with them about the coverage depending on where exactly ur located in Kandy.
@Rishoban
The contract is about a 7Mbps connection (3.6Mbps for uni student pkg). There’s no more 7 or 3.5Mbps connection. So there shouldn’t be any contracts too.
Is there any one who got a notice before Dialog reducing ADVERTISED speed?
A place called Queens mobile regularly advertises in the HIT ad (Sunday times) that they can unlock USB dongles including the Huwawei E220
Anything that can be locked can be unlocked.
The issue with dongles is that the cost is usually subsidized by the provider.
Whatever u talk about fucking airtel charges,Dialog is the best and rules the market over the past 12 years.
Guyz be calm and think twice! If airtel can give an introductional offer like this,how good can dialog provide in the near future.gv sm time for the company to revise their rates to face the competition. Breachng the contract is not tht wise!!! A small piece of advice as a Dialog staff.
I don’t care about your precious past but at present the dialog service is terrible compared to Airtel or Mobitel, specially in HSDPA ‘broad(?)band’. What we want is a good service not a ‘Kaiwaaruwa’. In dialog HSDPA the speed is very much slower than other networks and the FUP sucks! Only thing that dialog is keen on is to cheat people with nice terms and wrong information. If Air tel can give a truely unlimited (not with hidden limitations such as in dialog) with out FUP why can’t you people give? This shows your disability. You people try to cover your weaknesses with nice terms like FUP. You people tell that you have the widest and largest 3.5G coverage. Don’t tell ugly lies men! Even Airtel people who started few weeks have a better one than you while dialog is the first to launch HSDPA in south asia! What a shame for you dialog GSM? I will aslo change in to Airtel or mobitel soon because I don’t want to limit my self into a useless 5GB with a poor speed. Who cares about your bladdy contract? I have already unlocked the modem! Dialog is very keen at limiting customer s with complex plans and nice terms such as FUP. But you can’t do this anymore as people are not fools. You peolple now also try to give false hopes of future improvements in dialog. But we can’t see you are doing anything to make any improvement. I have a doubt that dialog is plannig to leave the country (like Sakvithi did) as you can’t make much profit anymore. So you better find another business.
Mario,
U have any ideas with 3rd Parties (pettah) it is very useful
You can unlock your E220 modem. Do a torrent search at isohunt and there you will get a 15mb download. It contains all the tools and instructions to unlock the modem. I did it and was successful.
I just started using my Sony Eric K530i on my laptop. It connects @ 115 k in a 3G area ( Dialog ). More than enough ur average, surfing, checking mail etc.
This is it! I know 12 friends who used Dialog HSDPA, 7 of them changed to Airtel and the rest to Mobitel! These days dialog HSDPA is slowly going to the graveyard! Today I have paid the 5th Bill, only one month remains, after that NO MORE DIALOG SHIT!
@Naf$tyL€
I can wait, maximum 2 months, if dialog does not change its packages, I’ll throw my disconnection form to Dialog Arcade’s officers face!! BTW, Where you guys got the strength to start a Blog like this, by giving a low quality service like this!! Anyone who sees this blog, will not go for Dialog HSDPA!
There is a story that dialog is inthe process of increaing their international bandwidth by installing a new submarine data cable. I don’t know whether it is tru or falls. At least then they should give their customers a better speed and also should remove ( at least increase the limit upto 15GB and no more downgrading than 384Kbps) the useless FUP shit.
@ MCK, yes i also heard that. Anyways i saw sometime back that they were laying a cable around Colombo & suburbs ( done by Access Engineering ). And heard that they were gonna use it for their internet services. I think Dialog’s main problem is their limited bandwith. Mobitel uses their own submarine cables, ( SLT owned of course ) & Airtel i think routes their traffic through a cable that runs through India
I installed the AIRTEL settings on my phone & tried it out yesterday. Their 3G downloading speed & browsing speed is a little faster compared to Dialog.
Airtel “chokes” in mobile frenzy
By Sunimalee Dias
One month after the Indian mobile company’s entry into the Sri Lankan market amidst much fanfare it is already facing stiff alleged “unfair” competition by competitors due to the non-provision of seamless interconnectivity between local networks, Bharti Airtel said yesterday.
With no experience of similar competition even in India – according to Airtel, the operator viewed that the issue was mainly due to local mobile operators virtually ‘choking’ Airtel customers from connecting up with subscribers on other local networks.
Currently Airtel customers are experiencing call congestion when calling other networks, requiring them to make multiple attempts to make a successful call, Bharti Airtel Executive Director K. Srinivas told the Daily Financial Times. He explained that the congestion is prevalent during peak hours, as a result of which 80% of Airtel calls are lost at this time. This is because the point of interconnection has not been provided by other operators, who have been requested to do so.
“We gave projection for capacity since November last year but we have not got even 50% of the capacity,” Mr. Srinivas said. He noted that either the networks were performing at an “extremely slow” pace, but “we believe it is played deliberately”.
It was pointed out by him that the delay of implementation is a breach of licence. The guiding provisions for providing required capacity and providing physical access to other operator sites can be found in the Interconnection Rules 2003, which receives its authority from the Sri Lanka Telecommunication Act No. 25 of 1991. By law, other operators are therefore bound to provide these requirements so that the customer benefits at the end of the day, by being able to talk freely within networks. The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) was informed of this “unfair” competition last week and the commission is trying to tackle this issue
Mr. Srinivas stated that congestion problem was observed with all other operators except Hutch, while Lanka Bell was noted to have provided the necessary capacity last month.
The TRC intends to fight this in the marketplace and Airtel pointed out that the Director General of TRC had assured the newest and fifth entrant to the highly competitive mobile market that they will iron out matters following discussions with other players. Mr. Srinivas said that they have spoken to Dialog and other operators as well in this regard although there has been no evidence of the implementation of the binding agreement within the networks to provide the required capacity and interconnections.
Airtel believes that the competition it provided with the lowest tariffs here had created a stir in the mobile market and thus Airtel termed this resistance as an “unfair ploy to block competition”.
This is the first time that the Indian mobile company has had to face such a tough attitude from competitors; “I don’t think we have faced this kind” of unfair competition in India, Mr. Srinivas alleged. However, he was uncertain as to whether this was a joint effort by all operators or whether it was carried out deliberately by some. “I hope not,” he speculated, adding that “if this should continue, it will be unlikely that customers will want to be with you.” Nonetheless, Sri Lanka’s mobile telecommunications sector is a mature one in global terms, with a long history (of about 20 years) of operation. Competition is therefore only to be expected – especially in the arrival of a large foreign player – as individual operators fight commercially to ensure that their patch of the turf is not impinged upon. It is hoped that competition will ultimately bring prospective benefits to the consumer – for which TRC too will have to ensure ‘fair play’ soon.
Country’s leading mobile network operators namely Dialog and Mobitel, when contacted yesterday did not comment on the issue .
@ Mario;
I noted some significant improvement in their connection speeds as shown by speed test.net except for the Male server. But I can’t be sure whether they are going to sustain this improvement.
I lodged a complaint regarding poor indoor 3.5G coverage in my area(Kelaniya). They promised me to look into it and contact me within 48 hours. Only 5hours more! I am still waiting!!
There is a group of Chinese engineers doing a project off Sigiriya. They are staying in a bunglow in Pidurangala, about 5 km from Sigiriya. They are using the Dialog HSDPA modem for their day to day mails/internet stuff. They say the speed is superb. No complaints.
@ Mario,
That may be due to the less number of users in that area. I don’t think that they will get the same speed in Colombo also!
@ MCK
Yes, true, which beings me back to my earlier comment, that Dialog’s Tech is not the problem. Basically Mobitel & Airtel dont have this problem cuz they dont have many users logged on at a particular time.
They have to upgrade their bandwith immediately.
The same goes for the problem with Dialog to Airtel & Airtel to Dialog calls. Why is the problem mostly with Dialog nos., becuz there are more dialog users than any other network, so obviously there will be congestion when so many dialog try to call Airtel.
@ MCK
Yes, true, which beings me back to my earlier comment, that Dialog’s Tech is not the problem. Basically Mobitel & Airtel dont have this problem cuz they dont have many users logged on at a particular time.
They have to upgrade their bandwith immediately.
The same goes for the problem with Dialog to Airtel & Airtel to Dialog calls. Why is the problem mostly with Dialog nos., becuz there are more dialog users than any other network, so obviously there will be congestion when so many dialog try to call Airtel.
@ mario
you seems to be getting wrong information.
firstly mobitel has most hspa users. this includes smart pre paid users and they get 1mb speed. dialog doesnt have even 20% of hspa users compared to mobitel. still mobitel delivers promised speed because
1. theeir 3.5G network is far advanced.(no problems with indoor signal etc.)
2. their all 3.5 towers are either 7.2mb or 14.4mb HSPA towers, compared to dialogs 1.8mb(most)HSDPA towers
3. mobitel tower to tower connecting speed is 10mb compared to dialogs 2mb.
4. most importantly they share international bandwidth with slt which is in terabites compared to dialogs total of 155mb. (to wimax and hsdpa both)
your point may be valid for airtel since they also dont have good international bandwidth. but airtel 3.5G network is also similer to mobitel and far better than dialog, so they should do better than dialog even with increased users.
your 2nd point, D2A and A2D calls also not correct. increased users is not an excuse for congession. also dialog lost more than million customers to mobitel. so if they still have congession that means their network is very low profile.
Oh..my god, FUP is applied on me today!(I downloader 3GB yesterday and speed downgrading is down to 64Kbps straightaway). But it should be removed by tomorrow! Anyway they are providing the promised speed (after downgrading) now!(This is the only way that they can do it) It is exactly 64Kbps with a constant stability.(I also tested with speedtest.net) Actually I feel a stable 64Kbps cause much less difference for browsing when compared to unstable HSDPA. So now I can realize how shaky and unstable is the dialog HSDPA. I noted that they are counting data (for FUP) at the begining of a day and no continuous data counting. That is why I could download 3GB yesterday although I exceeded 5GB. So we can use this fact to download more than the limit. Try it and post your experiences.
Do Not pay a cent unlocking E220 .
And why you should not live with restrictions?
And enjoy this song.
I came across a hack on Airtel GPRS on the net- may be for india – shall post it if I can find it. supposedly enables you to download without any limits- FREE! but have not checked it out – so not sure whether it works
Sucking FUP applied on my HSDPA (actually LSDPA) connection on yesterday and asked for an extension.(for Rs100) and they did it. On tomorrow it has applied again!!!!!!! That mustn’t happen as FUP is anyway going to be removed from today.(because of new billing cycle). When asked for their so prestigious customer care they told that it must be removed within today but didn’t tell how long it will take! The situation is still the same!! This is how bad the sucking dialog GSM service!!! If they can’t provide us a good service they must get back to their bladdy fucking Malasia without cheating people like this. If they continue to do like this I will throw away this worthless piece of shit with putting a big ‘polla’ to the bladdy dialog fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This FUP shit applied to me on last 5th! But, I didn’t ask for a extension because I don’t like pay a single cent extra for dialog! So, I used Mobitel Daily Delight somedays and used my Dialog HSDPA with a speed of 6KB/s for somedays! As I know, today the new billing cycle starts!! Still I am getting 8KB/s!! What the hell is this? What the **** are they doing now? Finished, no more dialog. I am going to start a nice movement against dialog in each and every forum and blog, asking people not to buy dialog HSDPA(?)!!! I have thrown my dialog HSDPA SIM to Garbage pit at sharply 12.15.56PM today. I don’t care their sucking 6 month contracts. I’ll show dialog what a customer can do! Mind this you ******s you are lose more than million customers very soon by me!!
@MCK @Rishoban.
I don’t think we have a right to shout against FUP since we have agreed to it at the time we buy the connection. And dialog FUP doesn’t make it bad compared with other packages available. The problem is with their network. That’s what we should shout at. Hope you guys understand what I say. AND if you are stuck in FUP restriction EVEN AFTER refreshing the billing cycle you have a right to fight back.
@Mario
If Dialog has a problem with their Oh-So-Huge number of customers, What they should do is
1.Immediately stop signing in new customer in.
2.Expand their network to suit the number of customers.
@Mili
Once you deleted a comment of mine for using F-word. And I see another comment with the same *PROBLEM* here. I have no problem with F-word but you had a big problem seeing me using F-word on this blog. You take necessary & appropriate action against what happened OR ELSE…..
I’m not threatening. I’m merely ASKING you to treat all comments the same way.
GOOD BYE. I’m WTCHING this thread.
@Chanux
its one of the lame excuses that dialog come up with, we have millions of users ! so thats why its slow, duh ! if you have so many users, ant you making MORE money then other ? what don’t you spend that to improve the network ?
thats the point right, more users, more profit, and better infrastructure ?
at the beginning dialog was on total denial of there speed issue, but after users start to stand up they start to fix the issue, now i think its at a usable level.
now dialog is loosing money (NOT making any profit) on there BB and TV, do you know why, coz it sucks
and people don’t buy it, only few people like us fight, most just disconnect or never buy the service. Dialog is really good at marketing but NOT giving a good service to the customers. people go with dialog as they show a “dream world” with there marketing and they put stuff like 6months contracts etc so once people start using there service and find out it sucks, they cant do much since they have a contract with them. same issue with the WiMAX, FUP etc, but now they have removed the FUP on WiMAX.
even my self a Dialog customer (Mobile) for more then 4 years now, having more then 5 connections. but from the start i have seen that Dialog never admit there faults, its sad.
congession is only a one of several problems in dialog network. they have many more network issues,
dialog HSDPA customer base is much less than mobitel. there are thousands of smart daily delight users. but still mobitel delivers promised speed because of their advanced network. and amoung dialog hsdpa users most get either WCDMA or edge signal. so they are not true HSDPA users.
I searched my thrown HSPA SIM for about 2 hours in the Garbage pit and finally found it 15 mins ago and again using it! Still getting 6KB/s!!! Dialog can’t even manage their billing cycle. What a company?! * I have my own policy of not using a single mobile phone in my life time! Ha Ha… I am now 17, and I never touched a mobile phone in my life time and I’ll not do it in the future too. My Father is also the same. He… He…He…!
Its 6pm on 15th of the month and I’m still getting less than 64kbps speeds. If you are activating the “F* Usage Policy” on time, You should deactivate it on time!
@chaunx,
We accepted FUP just because they imposed it on us, not because we like it! There is mo any other option than to sign that FUP shit to proceed with buying the connection. So we have a right to fight against it. You may be talking in the sense of ‘loyalty’ of a customer to the service provider. That may be true if they also working in that manner. But while they are doing all kinds of fucking damn things against customers are you still telling us to be ‘loyal’ to them? You also should not be afraid to fight against this kind of cheating companies just because of shitty contracts. Waht can they do against you? Being loyal to the service provider is not a bad thing but that is only as long as they also treat us in that way!
@All,
Thank you guys, lets keep on fighting against dialog until they provide a better service or chase them back to their bladdy malaysia if cannot be corrected!
@mck
we cant correct them for sure. we cant chase them either since there are many fools in sri lanka. i came across 3 people who used dial up and then got dialog hsdpa(not hspa…)and they were happy since they compared it with their dial up. i educated them to check the speed and all 3 had speeds of less than 500kbps. then only they realised the truth. unfortunately there are many people like them so dialog is surviving despite few of you fights. thats why dialog doesnt care our genuine complaints. i realised this bitter truth early and i didnt pay my bill anymore. so they disconnected it and i unlocked the modem. and i wanted to hurt them badly as possible so i took more than 6000 rupees of idd calls from my dialog phone and shifted to mobitel! you ll better do that, they cant take any legal action with existing law.
@All
As I told earlier, I have paid 5 month bills, only one month remains to get out of that dialog contract shit! I’ll change to Mobitel or Airtel or even my Good old CDMA phone dial up! But, I am not going to do this normally, Here’s my plan, I’ll use first 5GB of this month with in a week and ask for an extension and use as much as like. After that, I’ll unlock my E220 and go to another provider! But, I’ll not pay their bill, Dialog HSPA Go to hell!
*Now time is 7.10PM on 15th of February 2009, still getting a speed of 8KB/s!
@Indi
Are you not ashamed to compare your Dialog Shit (I mean HSDPA) with Airtel Broadband?
When I asked for the extension on Saturday(for Rs100) they did it instantly. But when I complained on today morning that bladdy bitch at the customer care told me to wait until automatic removal of their Fucking Usage Policy. It is still there!!!!!!!!! If they could remove it instantly on yesterday why they cant do it today? They are definitely cheating us!
@Sanjan,
Exactly! As you mentioned they are living here just because of poor knowledge of our people regarding telecommunication. But lets try to educate others as much as we can. Whether to accept or not is at their own choice.
@Robinson,
That is what exactly I am also going to do. During your extension period make sure you download at least 100GB to give a heavy load on their shitty network. Lets ask every dialog LSDPA (not HSDPA, if we use that term, it will be an insult to those who invented this great technology) to do so before throwing away this bullshit!
@Rishoban
Don’t do that. It is not god for you…. People who bought the package at the beginning didn’t sign the contract… So check with dialog and disconnect legally! I got my connection disconnected and moved to Airtel.. My Airtel connection was activated on 17th January and till now according to mobile connect software I’ve used around 65GB of data! No FUP. I’m getting a stable speed of 1.4mbps in my place and my friend gets 3.2mbps at his home. But there is a disconnection problem (It works well when I reconnect again).
Dialog try to earn as much as money they can earn from their customers. FUP+100/= day on HSDPA (LSDPA), 500/= to activate blaster and 500/= to activate that 50% discount are examples….
Still I’m using dialog voice package because I’m waiting to get the university package by Airtel ad due to Airtel coverage problem in my home town…. Once it is shorted out I’ll never think of Dialog!!!!!!
@prasath
Yeah, you are correct, a customer should be legal and loyal to his service provider, BUT UNTIL the provider is loyal to customer. In dialog LSDPA case, it always tried to make money and increase their subscriber base by telling all sort of lies in the world, then how can a customer be loyal to a cheating company like this? I feel ashamed to be dialog LSDPA customer! It is better if I had put the whole investment of me for dialog including modem price, activations, rentals, fup extension charges to Sakvithi’ bank!! instead of wasting my money on a useless Broadband(?) like this.
@ all
dialog internet should be named as LSDPA narrowband!!!
At last, the speed is recovered! I am getting a 120KB/s stable speed, its nice. For me dialog is HSDPA until 5GB, after that it is LSDPA! If dialog can do two things;
they can keep their customers forever, because they have got a good coverage than Airtel (for now),
1) Remove that FUP shit
2) Reduce the rental (at least less than 2000/=)
If they didn’t make that correct within 2 or 3 weeks, they are going face a huge lost in their HSDPA!
Another thing, it took more than 24 hours for dialog to remove FUP!
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Dialog Broadband – first TL 9000 certified Telecom Service provider
Dialog Broadband Networks (Pvt) Limited received the prestigious TL 9000 quality certification for its retail Broadband Internet products, earning the distinction of being the first telecommunication service provider in Sri Lanka, fifth in Asia, and one of the first ten operators in the world to achieve this significant milestone.
TL 9000 is a telecommunication industry-specific Quality Systems certification consisting of two primary components – Quality Management Systems and Quality Management Systems Measurements. The standard was developed by the Quality Excellence For Suppliers of Telecommunications (QuEST) Leadership Forum, whose systems are used at over 897,000 organisations in 170 countries worldwide.
“This certification is a statement of our commitment to provide the best in wireless broadband services to customers through the adoption of advanced Quality Management Systems,” said Kavan Ratnayaka, Chief Executive Officer – Dialog Fixed Telephony and Broadband Services. “Dialog Broadband is extremely honoured to receive the TL 9000 quality certification, and we consider this the beginning of a journey to elevate every aspect of our products, service delivery and management systems to a superior standard,” Ratnayake added. The TL 9000 Quality accreditation seeks to define Quality Management System requirements for the design, development, production, delivery, installation, and maintenance of products and services in telecommunications.
The performance-based measurements for reliability and quality performance of products and services incorporated in TL 9000 are used to benchmark performance with others in the industry. Dialog Broadband’s new quality certification is a clear indication of the company’s commitment to providing high-quality service to customers through operational excellence. Source | http://www.sundayobserver.lk
What a big joke this writer(of Sunday Observer) has done? Whatever the certifications they have got ( I dont know on which basis they have got it! They should really deserve it it that is awarded to the best cheater!!!) the real quality is what the user experiences! They are now trying to hide their weaknesses by telling this kind of jokes. This person (Mr(?)Kavan)should be suffering from a severe mental illness!!
I also noticed some improvement in speed thank you for all who were fighting for a better service. But still shows slowness in certain websites.
According to their contract we can’t get disconnected ‘legally’ during the contract period. So you have to go for an ‘illegal’ disconnection whether you like it or not, if you want to get disconnected during that period.
Use the following URL to unlock the dialog Huawei E220 HSDPA modem.
http://www.seejay.net/2009/02/how-to-unlock-huawei-e220-hsdpa-modem.html
anyone know if airtel requires a national id when buying a connection or will a sl passport do? I know on the signup form there is a passport option but do they have a seperate deposite for that like dialog? ( 10,000 deposit. Retarded )
@mck
there are seperate group of jokers just to give awards or certificates to dialog! this is obviously bull shit since all of us know how bad dialog broadband is.
remember one idiotic group awarded dialog “the best business award” in 2007. what happened in 2008? dialog experienced net loss!! same thing will happen to this.
http://www.mobitel.lk/prepaid/tariff.html
http://www.mobitel.lk/prepaid/tariff.html
totally incoming free. OG 2.50 to non mobitel.
Airtel 2.50 after 31 march
Mobitel 2.50, after 2 years 2
dialog 5??????
even D2D 3?????
incoming free only if you spend 10 rupees per day!!!!
no comparison, get lost to malasia!
yeah, I also saw mobitel’s new tariff similar to Airtel (Simple plan ekak!) I think this will make more and more customers to change to Mobitel or Airtel. I think there’s possibility of making changes in mobitel’s data plans also. (to compete with Airtel of course!)
Let’s wait ‘n’ see.
Dialog is loosing their customers…………..
I also believe that the competition is between Mobitel and Airtel. Dialog is rapidly being left out! So I think we can have hopes for better service from both of these service providers.
Dialog seems to be getting deteriorated in all aspects. Their service, business and also see their present advertisements. 2 years ago they used very good quality advertisements for their promotions. But now they are using extremely poor quality adds. The strategy behind this is to capture low educated people as they cant convince educated people anymore.
@ MCK,
100% agree with you, who cares about dialog?! I think because of Airtel vs Mobitel competition, there will changes in Mobitel data tariff too. If mobitel can provide unlimited packages like Airtel! Dialog has to go back to Malasia!
IF U CAN TELL ME
HOW 2 BUY THAT DONGLE
PLS REPLY ME
@ Rishoban
what s the source? when they ll change that?
post paid tariff will change soon, broadband not sure…
@MCK
Well..what I was trying to say is that we had to choose something other than Dialog at first. Though we don’t like, we signed for the agreement. That’s all. I don’t say that it burns out all the rights to fight back. I just said we are kinda in a trap. Hope you understand.
@sanjan
In the reply to MCK you are trying to name me as an idiot. well you are free to believe what you want. But I was talking about the truth. I’m really sorry that you don’t understand what you say. If you open your eyes a bit & look around you’ll see that I’ve been fighting against Dialogs crappy service too. When I find good things I don’t be afraid shout them out. And also I’m trying to face the truth all the time.
I do fight. But the difference is that I do it in a wiser, better & proper way.
This blog seems to be abandoned by the authors
I’m happy with Airtel HSDPA! As promised Airtel has increase their down speed from 1.4 mbps to 2.8 mbps. Now I’m getting stable 2.8 mbps speed. With orbit downloader I’m getting a download speed of 290 KBps
Airtel speed test
http://www.speedtest.net/result/413124794.png
@Chaunx,
We had to choose Dialog HSDPA because we didn’t have another option 5 months ago. In those days Mobitel prices were unaffordable for normal class people like us. But if current situation was there I will definitely go for Airtel or Mobitel.( I hope you too). they took the advantage of the situation 5 months ago and made many customers. They knew that Airtel is coming and mobitel will also reduced the price that is why they forced us to sign the 6 months contract. As people who condemn this kind of things we have a right to fight against this kind of contract. If a service provider is not providing a good service customers should have a right to go for another. The fighting strategy that you are talking is applicable only when the service provider is always ready to listen to customers. But they don’t. Then we have to go for another way whether we like it or not.
@Prasath,
Is that 290KB is the maximum or average value you get? Has airtel also got the problem of sudden falling of speed.(eg. 250KB/s to 40KB/s)?
@ chaunx
Yeah, where are the authors of this Blog? Ran away? lol!
Well, they are ashamed to come!!
@ MCK
Max is around 340 KBps (2.8mbps) That 290KBps (2.4mbps) is the average (Only from today morning I’m getting. Previously around 170KBps average). There is a problem of sudden slowing to 0kbps after around 2hours of continuous usage. But when you disconnect and reconnect it works fine at 2.8kbps. It seems to be happening only in my area (Colombo 07). I complained them regarding this and they said, it is a problem with their server and they are doing a great effort to correct that problem. They promised me that they will correct that as soon as possible.
Any way it is not a big problem (but annoying) for me and I’ve downloaded around 20 DivX movies so far using torrents.
So it seems to be great! Now dialog should start to pack their stuff to go back to the Malaysia! Who is the fool that limit him self for a just useless 5GB while there is a truely unlimited option with a better speed for the same price?
@ MCK,
Only Airtel & Dialog has an unlimited package.
Mobitel dosent.
What is ur “truly unlimited option” ?
Airtel. Because it doesn’t have the FUP shit!
They may not have FUP shit or whatver u like to call it, but notice that their unlimited package, has a download of 3.2, compared to 7.2 on their other packages.
And they dont need to have FUP cuz they hardly have dont have any subscribers on it.
If mobitel’s service is so good, why cant they give an unlimited package ???? Thats why they are limiting to 7GB. That is like a FUP by itself.
@Mario
can i download 10GB using Dialog HSDPA with 1mbps speeds ?
where is the Dialog HSDPA Unlimited package, i only see a 5GB HSDPA with 1GB 3G (WCDMA) and 1+ GB with GPRS.
who’s fooling who ?
first you guys told, there is nothing wrong with HSDPA speeds, then finally you guys downgraded the 7.2mbps bull talks to 1mbps and then fix the IP Core issues you had.
if you have so many subscribers, ant they paying bills ? if you have so many then you have to be making so money, why cant you use that to improve your network ??
rather then coming up with a lame excure like “And they don’t need to have FUP cuz they hardly have dont have any subscribers on it.”
topical Dialog bull
do you also know that Dialog BB is making NET loss ?
this is typical dialog, why cant you just fix the issues you have rather then trash talk about other providers ? if your providing a good service, u dont have to talk about other providers, Dialog is like ministers in Sri Lanka, dont see any faults with them self, only good thing they know is to run “mada” campens, its sad now log Dialog is going with this, it just show how desperate they are.
people like you (mario) the ones why dragging companys like Dialog down the darn as you have no respect of others. hard headed and have no idea about what the customer is saying, who them self is not using Dialog service.
I’m shame to be a Dialog user with people like you!
speak the truth, listen to the customer.
@Mario,
You are worrying about 3.2Mbps of Airtel while dialog didn’t have at least 1.5Mbps! Also about Mobitel packages! Don’t worry about other networks. They try to improve on what customers telling unlike your so precious dialog BB. Why can’t you understand that Stable truely unlimited Airtel is better than that FUP shit limited unstable 1Mbps dialog BB when prices are equal? Any fool can understand this. I don’t believe that Airtel will do the same thing as dialog did that is just waiting without improving their infrastructure with increasing number of customers. That is why they are continuously improving their infrastructure. Mobitel is also the same. They are now trying to improve into 14.4Mbps which is under testing(According to their customer care). The mobitel peoples’ strategy is to provide a good service to make a good customer base whereas dialog poeples’ strtergy is to cheat people with nice terms. After further improvement they will definitely give an unlimited plan.
Dialog people know the reality of their service although they try to hide it. That is why they are imposing on unfair ‘contracts’ to keep their customers with them. Airtel, Mobitel or SLT are not doing that kind of jokes.(Don’t know about Lankabel) If diaolg is providing a good service they don’t have to impose on contracts. Then customers will be with them forever.
@Kalinga’
I agree with you 100%. IF dialog have a ‘good’ customer base and if they want to show that they are dedicated to provide a good service they should spend a significant proportion of their profit to increase the QoS. They are not doing so because earning more money from customers is waht their only hope!
Why can’t you understand that Stable truely unlimited Airtel is better than that FUP shit limited unstable 1Mbps dialog BB when prices are equal?
The prices are not equal! Dialog’s unlimited(?) is Rs.2990/= and Airtel’s Unlimited (true) is Rs.1499/=.
I think you’re talking about dialog’s student package.
@chanux
@sanjan
In the reply to MCK you are trying to name me as an idiot. well you are free to believe what you want. But I was talking about the truth. I’m really sorry that you don’t understand what you say. If you open your eyes a bit & look around you’ll see that I’ve been fighting against Dialogs crappy service too. When I find good things I don’t be afraid shout them out. And also I’m trying to face the truth all the time.
I do fight. But the difference is that I do it in a wiser, better & proper way.
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i never mentioned any thing like that. i know you are fighting like all others do against dialog shit. also i know that you are respecting the contract you signed unlike me and most others. and i accept that its the better way to fight. and again i never targeted you in any of my comments.
@chanux
@sanjan
In the reply to MCK you are trying to name me as an idiot. well you are free to believe what you want. But I was talking about the truth. I’m really sorry that you don’t understand what you say. If you open your eyes a bit & look around you’ll see that I’ve been fighting against Dialogs crappy service too. When I find good things I don’t be afraid shout them out. And also I’m trying to face the truth all the time.
I do fight. But the difference is that I do it in a wiser, better & proper way.
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i never mentioned any thing like that. i know you are fighting like all others do against dialog shit. also i know that you are respecting the contract you signed unlike me and most others. and i accept that its the better way to fight. and again i never targeted you in any of my comments..
@Rishoban,
Yes, I have made a mistake as i am using it! Then it further shows that Airtel package is better as it is anyway Rs1499
@MCK
Yes, Airtel is best HSDPA in Sri Lanka according to price plans, they need to improve their speed and HSPA coverage. And Airtel says that it will build 750 bases within 2009! if they do so, everyone who used dialog will say “?? Airtel ??? ????????, ?? ????? simple plan ??????” Ha…Ha…
@sanjan
. OK now again we are on the track I guess.
Understood that maybe a misunderstanding. Since this text media is expressionless that kinda thing can happen. It’s good that you didn’t make it a flame war
I don’t think that posting our ideas on this blog is making any progress. Let’s do some actual FIGHT. We cannot go to court against Dialog (at least “I” can’t. I can not run in that trouble.)
So what do we have with us?
We have knowledge & the power of being a “community”. Note that power of community unbeatable. So first we have to be a community & do whatever fight as a community.
As a first step, I suggest, Unlocking the E220 modem. My friend seejay has written a dead-simple howto to do that. So spread the word. We can help people in the process. There are people who are afraid to do this (who are not tech savvy). We can help them in unlocking process.
Let’s stop talking. Let’s do real work. I want a big “HELL YEAH” from all you guys.
@ chanux
@sanjan
Understood that maybe a misunderstanding. Since this text media is expressionless that kinda thing can happen. It’s good that you didn’t make it a flame war . OK now again we are on the track I guess.
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i never ever targeted you. now also i cant understand why you thought so. if you can please mention the relevant comment..
@Chanux
Let’s start a Anti-Dialog movement and educate people on “why dialog HSPA sucks?”!
Yes, I also believe that will be a great thing to do. Dialog is taking the advantage of lack of knowledge in people of this country. That is why they are now targeting more on less educated groups of people. We can realize that when we see their present advertisements. If we can educate them, those people won’t be cheated anymore.
@ MCK
Talking in this blog anymore is useless, what shall we do to educate our people? Any ideas?
You guys at some point need to realize that everybody has their own opinion and what works for some might not work for the others.
Hey, Dialog CDMA became a “Simple Plan”!
@ mili
yes, but no one should use bad products purely because of lack of information about far better alternatives and misleading marketting….
most dialog HSDPA (LSDPA) users belong to that category.
Hey guys,
I am a frequent “reader” of this blog and I see lots and lots of talks on pros and cons of airtel dialog mobitel. Couldnt’t write anything here since I didnt have first hand experience using these connections. So I bought a dialog package last month. to tell you the truth on my experience, I did not have any speed issues. I was totally satisfied with it. Since more and more people are talking about Airtel I bought an airtel data package today since it’s cheap.
(300 1GB)To tell you the truth It was cheap, . But the performance is also a bit cheaper!! Airtel speeds are much lower than dialog as per my first day experience. for airtel I got average speeds less than 400 kbps. but for Dialog it was around 800kbps avg. So I am not too happy with my first day experience. Well it is too early to come to a conclusion….. let’s see.
further more… I didnt know the what APN to use for airtel sim. so I called up the customer care. They honestly said they do not know the settings and gave me a number… 755707070. I tried for more than 15 mins but the number didn’t work. finally found the settings on the internet.(didn’t come to my mind in the first place)So… for me… it was not a great start with airtel…
@ kosala
Yes, I fully get 1 mb/s with dialog, but, the two things in dialog HSDPA makes dialog to fail!
1. FUP limt
2. Rental
Airtel “true” unlimited is Rs.1499/= and SLT ADSL also now Rs.1600/=, then for what the hell does dialog charge Rs.2990/=!! There are unofficial news that dialog is going to make unlimited rental as Rs.1495/=, if they do it, that’s better, and if they remove FUP limit, that’s the BEST! if not, I change to “Simple Plan”!
I understand, but like I said, the FUP is to ensure that nobody abuses the service, thereby assuring you guys of a steady connections as much as possible in a dynamic environment.
Like I’ve mentioned earlier you can’t compare ADSL and HSPA. However, the other offer is impressive. The choice is yours in the end.
@mili,
“I understand, but like I said, the FUP is to ensure that nobody abuses the service, thereby assuring you guys of a steady connections as much as possible in a dynamic environment.”
This is what dialog says to hide their poor network capabilities and also to earn some extra money from customers! If they are really doing this for what you mentioned they could not have offered the option of removing FUP by paying Rs100 per day. Then why don’t you say that those people who use that option are abusing the service? Dialog and it’s supporters cant cheat us anymore with this kind of funny explanations. But there are people who are less educated about these issues who can be cheated. We have to do something for them.
@Rishoban,
1st we have to have all the tools (software) needed for the unlocking. Then we should help everyone we know by unlocking their modems for them. We should also teach them how to do it and ask them also to help anyone in need of unlocking their modems as we did for them. Then if we can make this to go like a chain I think it will have a considerable effect.
@Kosala,
I think you better discuss this speed problem directly with Airtel customer care. There are several of my friends who switched in to Airtel from dialog and all are happy with it and say that it is better than dialog. All of them are experiencing a speed >1Mbps. How is the Airtel 3.5G coverage in your area? Very poor signal strength can also cause reduction of the speed you experience.
@MCK
“I think you better discuss this speed problem directly with Airtel customer care. There are several of my friends who switched in to Airtel from dialog and all are happy with it and say that it is better than dialog. All of them are experiencing a speed >1Mbps. How is the Airtel 3.5G coverage in your area? Very poor signal strength can also cause reduction of the speed you experience.”
definitely there is a speed issue here. im in colombo Narahenpita. so there is no doubt about signal strength or coverage.Im getting 91% HSDPA signal.
FUP…. the hottest topic in debate
FUP may suite some and may not for others. But it’s better if DIalog removes FUP. Thats better for all. But for now the user can choose what ever he/she likes since there are so many other options Mobitel/airtel. Things have changed now since there are multiple competitors in field. this directly benefits the customer since it enables the user the chose according to his needs. So FUP or not….its user’s choice. think before you buy.
@ rishoban
i think you dont have any issue to fight with dialog. you say you are getting 1mb speed. all other things that you are unhappy are not enforced on you! its the agreement. FUP was there when we bought that. 2999 is their prize and we were aware of that also. we cant fight with one operator just because other operators are giving same thing cheeply. instead we have our freedom to move.
unlike you i had terrible experience with dialog. i got speeds less than 100kb most of the time with over 90% signal strength. and my home place indoor hsdpa signal is not available and i had to put the modem outside with a long cable. i never had speed of 500kb frankly. thats why i m going very hard at dialog hsdpa.
also i never met anyone who is happy with dialog speed.
so if i had a speed like you i would never make any comments against dialog. instead i ll move to more cheaper mobitel or much more cheaper airtel quitely !
when other providers are giving NO FUP limitations dialog is yet having stupid FUP limitations, if Dialog wants to keep there customers they should be keeping them happy right now Dialog Needs to remove there FUP immediately!!! and it doesnt matter if dialog is providing 1mbps download speed… as long as FUP bullshit is not enabled and a relatively smaller rental.. IMPROVE YOUR SERVICES DIALOG SPEACIALLY HSDPA, if not your going to loose all your customers, MILI dont talk about other users not having a fair usage, dialog should upgrade or improve there bandwith than complain of fair usage policies. then again you say its upto the customer but MOST customers want this
I think this is not going to work! Seems they are not going to remove the FUP! I am going to move to “Simple Plan”!
I have converted many Dialog HSPA customers to Airtel by starting a useful thread on Simple Plan! See: http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=141895
As far as I know, 3 contacts in my skype also left dialog! And I am not going to stop this, I am going to educate people as much as I can and convert them from Dialog HSPA to ‘Simple Plan’!
@Kosala,
Could you check your Airtel connection some other place than Narahenpita? If the problem gets corrected then the fault should be related to the Narahenpita tower. Then you have to complain them and I hope they will do something to solve the problem.
Dialog has introduced a prepaid broadband! Waste, there also some kind of a FUP limit is there! There also some kind of a trick is there, so, I am going to stop people from buying that as much as I can and I need support.
There is only 1 other operator that provides unlimited mobile broadband. So you can’t call it all the operators. Like I’ve mentioned before, nobody is holding you back.
What you don’t appreciate is that, since this blog was started the users have been given a place to air their opinions, and since then there have been improvements to the service. Finally the choice is yours.
“the choice is yours”
??? You always say that, there is no any choice for Dialog HSDPA customer due to their 6 month contract period! Ha..Ha….! What a choice?!
Finally, I am asking directly and I need a direct answer!
1.Does dialog have any plans to remove FUP and reduce rental?
Hey…
here is a trace result I got this morning for airtel..
I think I should make a complain about this to the customer service.
C:\Documents and Settings\User_1>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
PPP adapter Airtel:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.210.134.79
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.210.134.79
C:\Documents and Settings\User_1>tracert google.com
Tracing route to google.com [74.125.45.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 79 ms 115 ms 377 ms 192.168.248.34
3 86 ms 116 ms 98 ms 10.200.177.217
4 97 ms 101 ms 98 ms 10.200.176.98
5 97 ms 125 ms 118 ms 10.200.176.2
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * ^C
Hey…. anybody having “RPC server not found” problems related to mobile broadband connections.. I use to have this on my Dialog connection. the conection gets disconnected/frozen after some time and cant connect unless I restart the machine. Didnt use the airtel one long enough to check if it happens for airtel sim too..have to check
@ Kosala
I dont know if this will help but change the IP Address
to 10.200.184.086 & try & see.
@ mili
yes, there is one other operator, but, that operator gives Unlimited Rs.1499/= and while dialog gives it for Rs.2990/=! More than that “the other” operator don’t have any FUP limits like dialog!
That’s why we talk about the “other” operator.
There’s only one problem with the Simple plan operator; that is Signal strength! If that Simple plan operator improves the coverage, do you what will happen to dialog HSDPA?
AIRTEL coverage map & Data Rates
http://www.zshare.net/download/543892538b00caf6/
@Mario
“I dont know if this will help but change the IP Address
to 10.200.184.086 & try & see.”
Thanks Dude, but how can I change the IP since the IP I get is not a static one. It’s assigned by the Network.. right?..
Like I keep saying, if your satisfied with the other operator. By all means switch. If you’ve signed up for a contract, wait till it expires and switch.
I can’t confirm that there will be a reduction on the prices or the FUP will be removed. If I hear any info, you guys will be the first to know. In the mean time the engineering team is working hard to sort out the other issues.
@ Kosala,
Sorry, i thought that there may be a way of changing it.
Just thought to try it and see cuz thats the IP address that i got from AIRTEL engineering. I dont have a connection so i was not sure if u can change it or not.
@ mili
Can you tell us the current BANDWITH of the DIALOG ISP
There were >300 comments in this thread! What happened to them?
Dialog changed logo. There web site.
).
And this blog (NOTE:This is more of a FAN BLOG
They are in a PR clean up.
Maybe they’ve deleted the comments you are talking about as a step of that process.
Somewhat similar to what Microsoft does. “New clothes, Same old b*tch”
Exactly! ‘Kele maaru unata kotiyage pulli maru wenne nehe ne’
Guys, if you’ve been following our twitter account, you’d know that we had a few issues restoring the backup of the blog. Therefore we had to restore a prev copy around Feb, hence some posts and a lot of your comments are missing.
Pls trust us when we say, it’s not a PR clean up coz if it were there are a ton of comments that are against us but are still left on the blog with respect to our fans. Same goes for the look of the blog. This too wasn’t part of the plan.
Give us some time to get this blog back to it’s original condition with lively debates, as we’ve got both hands full with the new site.
That’s the honest truth from our side. Believing us or not.. is up to you!
ane yako mili dialog ekata puka dena purudda thama athaharala na neda?
thopila thamai dialog eka kanne
@ xXx
yep u rit!
Guys, I’ve been using an airtel broadband connection since february.. glad to say that i was satisfied with the speed and the stability even though it used to get disconnected every 2 hours or so.. i had a bad experience with the internet dongle i bought from Global GSM.. I bought it for 12000 rupees from them and was given a 6 month warranty but it stopped working only after 2 months of purchase and they could not repair it and even worse, refused to replace it with a new unit.. they admitted it was a manufacturer’s defect but still, they did not want to replace it, they actually used filthy words on me and almost hit me once when i was talking… Guys, don’t ever purchase anything from Global GSM.. they operate a Mafia in their Maharagama branch… Ok bakc to airtel.. You think that they might implement FUP in the future? cos im planning to go for another dongle but i have to make sure that there will be no FUP.. otherwise another 12000 will be in vain. but this time im gonna buy that from airtel who gives a 1 year comprehensive warranty…
Tnkx for dialog 4 nt removin da FUP. We nd it to cntrl ur heavy usin customers!
Guys, i use the Airtel unlimited package with the Bandluxe C270 modem.. The connection is very good and yesterday i reached an actual speed of 1600+ kbps as recorded by the dongle’s stats.. The dongle is so cool, it’s the smallest one around and build quality seems flawless.. But too early to comment on it’s durability but im satisfied with Airtel’s connection stability and speed.. They’ll improve the coverage hopefully… And let’s hope that they’ll not impose FUP in the future!
Tharindu- why don’t you make a complaint to the Consumer Affairs AUTHORITY against GLOBAL GSM-herd they take action
Not only that! Make a police entry if they tried to hit you. Give the maximum publicity to this event my media to make Global GSM to loss their fame completely!
Not only that! Make a police entry if they tried to hit you. Give the maximum publicity to this event by media to make Global GSM to loss their fame completely!