Top 5 reasons why you shouldn’t go for an Airtel 4G Dongle in Bangalore

Airtel is the first operator to come up with actual 4G LTE services in India and just like 3G, 4g services have not taken off and is growing at a rather sluggish pace. I have been using Airtel 4G via Huawei LTE dongle for the past 6 months as my primary source of Internet and have opted the Rs 999 10GB Unlimited Plan. Here are some reasons why you should be apprehensive about going for an Airtel 4G.

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Airtel 4G Pricing

In short the 4G is still expensive even after Airtel reduced the price drastically almost an year ago. 10GB high speed data cost me Rs 1123 inclusive of taxes for a month which is decent but if your usage is lower, the cheapest data pack would be around Rs 700 for just 3GB of bundled data.

Airtel 4G Speed

If you are expecting blazing speeds compared to 4g, then you are in for a disappointment. The download speeds are limited to 12-14Mbps in areas with full strength LTE signals. The 3G speeds range between 8-11Mbps under the same condition so virtually not much of a difference for the extra ‘G’.

airtel 4G Speed Before FUP

Sluggish UI

The UI of Airtel 4g has room for improvement. The UI is sluggish and it sometimes takes more than 50 seconds to load. The Airtel personalised webpage opens every time you connect to airtel which is quiet irritating. Although the Airtel application doesn’t show up increased CPU consumption, it still slows down the system considerable. I use it on a laptop with an Intel Core i3 chipset clocked at 2.4GHz with 4GB of RAM which is a pretty fast machine capable of doing everything.