Comments on: BSNL Broadband Service Update – The Trap!

By: Tuning

Tuning — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:44:32 +0000

Hi Praveen,

Thanks for your comment.

Things have changed a lot since I wrote this post. Now BSNL is providing 24mbps plans. I can’t imagine how this will affect the bandwidth usage at end of the month.

Fortunately, there are ways you can use to prevent downloading in office.

-T

By: praveen

praveen — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:22:20 +0000

I agree as well as disagree with you.

There are different types of usages and hence there are different types of plans. It is up to the user to buy the correct plan and restrict his usage as per plan.

If someone is giving free food at his birthday party, then we should know how much of what we should eat. There is no point in forcing everything in and ending up sick the next day and calling the birthday boy a fraud because he offered free food.

Limited plan is meant for people who use limited internet. It is true that Internet is addictive and so is higher Internet speed. People with limited knowledge about Internet start with small plan and end up with a big bill. However we cannot blame BSNL for that.

Before making a phone call, one should know the difference in charges of local call and International call, no point in calling up US and talking for 2 hours assuming the charges would be same like local call.

So you cannot call this “a trap”, but definitely new customers should be “warned” about usage cost they could incur with a limited connection.

In conclusion, you point is correct, but the heading is wrong [though catchy ]

There are lots of people who use limited internet, these increase in speed and capacity has definitely helped them.

Thanks.

By: amit

amit — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:44:19 +0000

if i am seeing youtube then i have to be pay for that(1gb broadband)

By: Enrique

Enrique — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:26:12 +0000

Guys you’ll are talking about BSNL….I think its better to have BSNL than private providers like Reliance and Airtel…
There are less catches in BSNL and it is more flexible than them…Trust me am talking from experience….I worked for Reliance and I know how they cheat people. They think they own the country

By: Tuning

Tuning — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:32:06 +0000

Hi Suhas,

You need to contact BSNL for upgrading your connection. Just provide a written application stating you need to upgrade connection.

hth

By: suhas

suhas — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:25:50 +0000

how can u upgrade my connection.?
my downlad speed is only 35kb/ps

By: sudheersundalam

sudheersundalam — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:18:05 +0000

As u have stated above, the same is being observed by me too.
But I am kicking of the BSNL’s ass by downling at night times…On an average I am downling 4-5gb/day.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:31:46 +0000

YA i also run a cyber cafe and i am using dataone business 700 plan. since jan my free usage is getting exausted at 5 times than in the previous year.

can any one pls suggest any bandwith control

By: Tuning

Tuning — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:01:26 +0000

Yeah, Arun.

Unfortunately there are some places where BSNL is the only service provider providing broadband service. (Just like mine )

By: arun

arun — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:41:58 +0000

I agree with you that home users will finish the 1 GB limit pretty fast maybe one the first week itself.

Using BSNL broadband in Cyber Cafe is foolisness. Hope cafe owners know business