Decided to port out

[varunit]

I decided to port out of Airtel. Would like switching to either Aircel, TATA Docomo or BSNL. My major concern is because of 2G price hike.
After reading a few threads porting Aircel seems to be a risk because it is shutting down operations.
BSNL provides good 2G plans 8GB for Rs.300 valid for 90 days.
Docomo's plan is not bad either 1GB for Rs.95
Don't know about Vodafone's plans.
Any suggestions guys?

 

[vijaypathak077]

docomo's GPRS is very poor..

 

[uumeshh]

more than anything else, first you should see which carrier provides a good signal in your area. ask people around. cheap prices may not be worthy if the service is poor. 2G speeds may sukk big time if the network is congested !!

 

[mreccentric]

Always good to switch to other network when you have Airtel

 

[MediaFire]

i differ from mreccentric's suggestion
its better u stay with airtel , am an airtel user too and like all others i hate airtel
but for time being there is no other network which performs at par with airtel
airtel has the widest coverage which u wont get with any other network
by porting u might save 100-200 RS per month and get the peace of mind away from airtel
but u will start to feel airtel was better .

 

[varunit]

Thanks for the replies. BSNL is good in our area. Airtel offered great speeds (3G speeds) even I recharge for only 2G, but I guess that they cap speeds once reaching a fair usage. Ex. I recharged with 98, 650MB for 21 days. Upto 450MB, speed was excellent and after that it stuck around 15kBps. Also I experienced those high speeds only when I travel to office When I reached home they stay always the same 15kBps.
Would like to hear about other providers' speeds as well.