BSNL to ramp up broadband network

[sathish456]

NEW DELHI: State-owned telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) plans to extend broadband coverage to 1,48,000 villages over the next six months.

BSNL, which offers broadband across 3261 cities, will expand to 5000 cities by March 2009.

Said Communications and IT Minister Thiru A Raja, “Government will initially connect 5000 blocks by wireless broadband, soon after the allocation of the spectrum, with support from the USO fund. Villages coming within a radius of 10 km of the block headquarter shall be covered by such connectivity. This will benefit many institutional users like schools, public health centers, village panchayats and the community service centers (CSCs) which is meant to provide e-governance and data services to the rural areas. BSNL will play a major role in providing the wireless broadband connectivity as it has done in case of the shared mobile infrastructure scheme. In order to promote expansion of rural wire line and wire line based broadband services, government has recently decided to waive off the license fees for rural wire line.”

BSNL has already floated zonal tenders with plans to procure 93 million lines to extend coverage of GSM mobile services to all the villages in the country having more than 1000 population. The procurement of the lines will be done in a phased manner.

Through this expansion, BSNL will also introduce value added services like mobile TV, mobile broadband, MMS, location based services etc.

Further in order to boost telephony in rural areas, BSNL recently introduced a tariff plan called 'Gramin 75’ under which fixed monthly charges have been reduced from Rs 110 to Rs 75. The plan applies to exchange systems having capacity between 1000 and 29999 lines.

Also fixed monthly charges of Sulabh Plan under Fixed/WLL service in exchange system of more than 29,999 lines have also been reduced from Rs 120 to Rs 99.

BSNL is already providing telephone connections to 550,000 villages across the country. It has extended 11 million GSM connections in the rural areas. The company’s GSM coverage reaches out to about 256,000 villages, which means over 43 per cent of the total number of villages. Besides, it also covers 75 per cent of the villages through its WLL network.

The government plans to complete 500 million telephone connections by 2010 and 750 million connections by 2012.

Indiantelevision.com

[~ArShAd~]

Only thier plan and cost is good but service really fails to deliver....

[Pratik]

tell them to give better services before increase customer.

My two friend already shift bsnl to other broadband.

[~ArShAd~]

Bsnl is best suitable for middle class people like me , low cost but service is poor and sometimes they come with a huge bill .

[simon]

BSNL Broadband is excellent IF you have the telephone exchange close to your location. I use it at my home for the last 18 months in Chennai, believe it or not, only 1 day it was down. That was also the same day when all the major networks went down globally on the (under sea) cable cut somewhere between countries.

SO BSNL Broadband is Good IF the EXCHANGE is near to you.

[~ArShAd~]

Exchange is near by but the speed seems to be slow during 2 am to 8 am...

[roh_style]

Well I understand your point Mr.Arshad, but believe me, BSNL has definately improved from what it was previously. Though I would still say that their CC is even worse than that of Dish TV. The Dish TV CC atleast pick up the phone, but the CC agents at BSNL never picks up the phone. I dont know why they advertise those call centre nos if no one picks up the phone. But apart form this, their products and services have enhanced from what it was. And I feel that the speed of BSNL BB has also improved from what it used to be. I am getting around 2 MBPS even though I was supposed to get only 256 Kbps upto 2 Mbps with my Rs.500 data plan. The speed is so high that you cant imagine now. I will give you some examples :

File Name : Madonna - Hard Candy - MP3 Music Album
File Size : 72 MB
Download Tool : Opera Download Manager
Time Taken : Just 10 Mins

File Name : Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor - MP3 Music Album
File Size : 90 MB
Download Tool : uTorrent
Time Taken : Only 17 Mins

File Name : Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds - MP3 Music Album
File Size : 115 MB
Download Tool : uTorrent
Time Taken : 35 Mins

I will share the experience of my downloads in a seperate thread and I shall download more files and let you know about them. But at present, BSNL speed simply rocks...!!

[~ArShAd~]

Roh , downloads are super fast in day time and the speed is reduced in free time ..... I am saying bsnl is the best but they should not slow the speeds in the free time...

[roh_style]

(09-15-2008 09:08 PM)simon Wrote:  BSNL Broadband is excellent IF you have the telephone exchange close to your location. I use it at my home for the last 18 months in Chennai, believe it or not, only 1 day it was down. That was also the same day when all the major networks went down globally on the (under sea) cable cut somewhere between countries.

SO BSNL Broadband is Good IF the EXCHANGE is near to you.

Well yes, its true, if there is a BSNL exchange near you, its said that you get good speeds as well. The BSNL exchange is just locateda stone's throw away from my house and I have never faced any such problems with them till date..!!

[roh_style]

(09-15-2008 09:38 PM)arshad Wrote:  Roh , downloads are super fast in day time and the speed is reduced in free time ..... I am saying bsnl is the best but they should not slow the speeds in the free time...

Well I had tried once in the free usage time at around 7 am, and the speed was Ok as it uses to be in the day-time. But I have used the free time only twice, shall try it again and see..!!