If you have a landline connection and it is clear throughout the year, you can go for broadband. No issues at all. If there is no noise in the landline, there is hardly any problem in BSNL. My landline phone has more sound than a barking dog. And it never gets fixed. If the exchange is 500m from your house, then it is smooth as butter. My DB box is 100-200 meters from my house and I have been requesting them from ages to set up a DB box in front of my house. I have been upto their Rs.3400 plans in the past but they never heeded to my requests.