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I am having Tata Indicom broadband connection Since feb.'01(Those days it was operated by Dishnet DSL). Lately I find their service is very poor. Can anybody tell me about Airtel or BSNL broadband services. Currently I am having 512kbps speed.

None of your answers are informative. Rs.30 per hour is very expensive. Tata Indicom charges only Rs8/- per hour. I think Airtel has 512kbps speed. I have no information about BSNL broadband. I think I will continue with Tata Indicom Broadband. They are providing Router instesd of Modem and the speed is good.

Please read as ' I don't think Airtel has....

Answer 1

I had Tata Indicom, WLL with theinternet connection. It became horrible about 8mths back, and costed a lot every month.

I returned it and got a BSNL with broadband. Good connection, download & low bills. Streets ahead of Tata indicom. Service is as good a Tata indicom.

PS : BSNL is yet to charge me for the monthly rental of broadband!! Its a worry, when they will wake up and on the pathetic billing service. A delight if this is for true and they dont charge me at all!!

Answer 2

I am sure BSNL would be the best option (ofcourse, if you manage to get it after a lot of rounds to the BSNL office or calls)

Answer 3

Airtel gives a very good service with virtually no downtime, stable connectivity, and well an ok type customer service. I have been using the service for almost a year now.

IT could be the end of dial-up Internet access. Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services on Monday brought down the tariff for high-speed broadband services to Rs 30 an hour, which is the same that a consumer pays for a much slower dial-up Internet access.

The new package, called Delight 256, allows unlimited downloads at 256 kbps and comes with no monthly rentals, making it the cheapest broadband package in the country.

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, which has the largest broadband network in the country, offers a 256 kbps connection at Rs 500 a month with download limit of 1GB.

MTNL, which offers broadband in Delhi and Mumbai, offers same speeds at Rs 399 a month with a download limit of 400 MB.

Both companies said that they were constantly monitoring the market and would offer competitive rates to their customers.

The new tariff packages announced by Bharti would be available to Airtel fixed line customers in the northern region to start with.

"With the introduction of the new plans, Airtel has enhanced the tariff package offerings for its customers, thereby offering them more plans to address their unique needs. The initiative is aimed at boosting the penetration of broadband services in the country," said a press release.

In the northern region, Airtel currently provides broadband and telephone services in Delhi, Haryana, UP-West (Noida) and has over 52,000 DSL customers in the North.

The company at present offers broadband tariff packages in three categories — duration-based plans, volume-based plans and unlimited plans.

The Delight 256 tariff package is targeted at the casual Internet users.

The Night Surfing Top-up Plan is an add-on plan, which offers free night surfing to broadband customers at a nominal monthly tariff of Rs 49 only.

Existing customers can now avail of free night surfing, between 9 p.m. to 8 a.m., by topping-up their existing tariff packages plans with the newly introduced plan.

The plan is targeted at users who mostly access the Internet at night.

BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), the two Government-owned telephone companies, have launched their broadband services using their existing copper wire links. They hope to rope in a million subscribers by the end of 2005.

Branded Data One in the case of BSNL and Tri Band for MTNL, the services were kicked off at prices that the two companies feel will set benchmarks and ensure wider acceptance in the market.

The service was launched simultaneously by BSNL in Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad and by MTNL in Mumbai and Delhi.

The Communications and Information Technology Minister, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, who kicked off the services at a function here on Friday, said the broadband facility would help bring in high-speed Internet services across the country, especially the rural areas. Initially, BSNL would offer the service in 198 cities.

He said the two companies had adopted the latest ADSL2+ (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) technology and had come up with prices that were better than the competition. The target was to get nine million subscribers by 2007 and 20 million by 2010.

BSNL and MTNL had got the technology "off the shelf" and had tied up with two turnkey suppliers for equipment.

Broadband refers to telecommunications in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit information (both data and voice). It allows for higher download speeds in the case of the Internet (the broadband policy unveiled in December 2004 specified a minimum download speed of 256 kilo bits per second) and simultaneous use of the telephone number, which would not be possible in the case of a dial-up Internet connection. A subscriber going in for a broadband connection requires a personal computer with Ethernet port and Windows 98 SE operating system.

Mr Maran said both BSNL and MTNL would launch a whole host of services. However, for broadband to be really successful there was a need to develop content in the local languages. Also, operating systems had to be adapted for the local languages, an issue he had taken up with operating system manufacturers. There was also need to develop software that supported the various regional languages.

According to the broadband policy, there are more than 40 million copper loops in the country with both BSNL and MTNL, including 14 million in rural areas. Even assuming that a large part of the copper cable network will be old, at least 7 million copper loops can be leveraged for broadband services by these two companies.

It is this readily available base that the two companies are targeting. While BSNL's entry-level service comes with a monthly package of Rs 500, MTNL's is slightly lower at Rs 399. Subscribers will have to pay for customer premise equipment, including a modem.

A note circulated at the launch function said BSNL's broadband service would be 17.5 times faster than a dial-up connection and about eight times faster than ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and DIAS (Direct Internet Access).

Data One will facilitate content based services such as video on demand, interactive gaming, audio and video conferencing, IP telephony and distance learning.

Mr A.K. Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director, BSNL, said the company was in the process of establishing a public wireless access network with Wi-Fi and Wi-Max forums across the country during the next financial year. This project was being taken up on a turnkey basis.

For the Wi-Fi forum, BSNL had identified 15 cities to deploy 300 hotspots and work on the Wi-Max forum would be undertaken in Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and satellite towns of Delhi and Mumbai.

Mr N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu group of publications, said the launch of broadband services by BSNL and MTNL would set new price benchmarks, which would be the key to growth of these services.

Answer 4

you can't refuse other people the right to answer your question

SO THERE