Bsnl To Offer Broadband Connectivity At 2 Mbps

[anirudh]

"Subscribers will not be charged for migrating to the high-speed broadband access nor will they have to change their consumer premise equipment". This is the most important part for a consumer.

 

[Sushubh]

so have they ordered more modems or not for the extra customers they would be getting next year?

 

[netfreak]

'In this round-table conference I have asked the private operators to roll out similar plans for broadband connectivity,' Maran told reporters on the sidelines of the conference.

Way to go....

 

[Sushubh]

so that means promise the world. deliver 10% of it without customer support?

 

[netfreak]

Yaa its all just a promise.. Hope MTNL at least comes up with 512 kbos unlimited....

 

[kreacher]

There seems to be a lot of confusion. Some papers are claiming that existing 256kbps users will get a free move to 2Mbps while others say that BSNL will roll out aggressive plans for up to 2Mbps (starting with 1Mbps) sometime in January (probably).There's no mention of data caps removal so I guess that will still be there.I don't understand why they had to announce their intentions without announcing any concrete plans. The DataOne tariff page is still the old one.

 

[krishnan]

Just wait and watch and be patient

 

[vishalrao]

OK, stop watching the India/SA cricket match and change channels to "Headlines Today", in 10 min there's a news piece about the BSNL 2mbps thing!Also, lots of BSNL BFone, CellOne ads on the same channel...Edit:It was pretty boring, but they did mention the MTNL download limit of 400 MB and complained about it! Cool, hopefully some BSNL people were watching and it kicks some sense into their heads!Also showed a clip of Dayanidhi Maran from India Telecom 2006 saying "up to 2 mbps for existing 256kbps users and it was upto private players to match or beat it"Again, "for existing 256kbps users" doesn't confirm the price, any download limits, or WHEN this will be announced/available to us

 

[chicmagnet]

bsnl people already provide unlimited schemes.. that should have put some sense in to the mtnl people.. wats the point of increasing speed if they dont provide true unlimited..wat was also mentioned was that 2mbps would become a new standard, for broadband to be called broadband it has to be 2mbps , no less..so yes.. it has to be 2mbps or more... this is a good thing... now if only they could unbundle the local loop , it would really create more value for the customers..

 

[power]

yeh enjoy 2 Mbps with huge download cap of 1 GB/month okok i hope the cap wont be so less . Now sick-fy puts more cheap packages and hire more dumb customer care people . I am sure mtnl will get good new packages as soon as bsnl officially starts this .