When it comes to technology, I am not an early adopter. So I won’t be lining up to buy the new iPhone or get the latest gadget. Except when it comes to network speed. When it comes to bandwidth, I am all for it. I am hungry for as much as I can get of the bandwidth pipe.
Airtel recently launched their 4G service and it couldn’t have been sooner for me. The Internet is already overloaded with users. In India, everyone has a mobile phone now and some form of data connection. So being able to download stuff is not just a luxury for the chosen few. How times have changed.
If you were born a Millenial, you probably grew up thinking that everyone always had ready access to the Internet. But in the 90s, even owning a computer was a luxury. We had something called Net Cafes. We went there once or twice a week to check our email. So you signed in and looked around and chatted with people in the cafe while your Inbox loaded. Yes, it took that long!!
Have you ever tried downloading music with a small dial up modem. The kirr kirr sound of the modem as it tries to connect to the Internet is still fresh in my ears. Downloading a 5 MB song used to be a big challenge. Many times it took overnight for just one measly song.
Well, things are certainly better with broadband, no doubt. But if I can download the same thing in one hour instead of two, I want it. Or I want to download ten things simultaneously in one hour! The higher speed 4G offers will help, I hope.
My Plan for Airtel 4G
Browsing speed and download speed has generally been my focus so far when it comes to network speed. But I recently created a video for a recipe post I wrote for pasta. And that is when I discovered that uploading a video is much more difficult than downloading it. And it needs many more resources in terms of bandwidth.
Just to give you an idea, just a small 3 minutes video is 10 MB with the poorest quality. If I want it DVD quality, it will be around 50 MB. Uploading it is one big challenge.
Airtel and its 4G network will hopefully solve these issues, or at least make them easier. As a blogger, my life seems to be a nonstop series of uploading or downloading stuff or browsing – in short, almost every action I take needs a super fast communications network!
I can get an Airtel 4G SIM delivered for free, and there is no extra money to be paid for using the 4G connection. That certainly seems to be a win-win for me.
With so much speed under the hood, I am going to create food videos for YouTube. I have been planning a video channel for a long time, and let’s face it, video is where it’s at. Video is the future that is already here, as far as blogging is concerned.
The Airtel 4G network is going to make my job pretty easy. And yes, no more buffering when I play back my own videos to test them out.
All you got to do for a free home delivery of the Airtel 4G SIM is tweet #GetAirtel4G. Sweet!
