A tale of 2 Mbps
Here in my last post I wrote about my ISP promising 1-2 Mbit broadband. And there we go, we have it finally! All plans of my ISP ‘BSNL’ are jumping to 2 Mega-Bits bandwagon starting January 1 as this news source mentions! Wow, a huge leap from 256 Kilo-Bits to this! 8 folds lol!
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecom service provider, will provide broadband up to 2 MB at Rs 250 per month.
The speed has been increased by almost 8 times whereas the download has been increased by 2.5 times at almost half the cost, said a company press release.
Under the new plan all the existing 820,000 customers are also being upgraded for the speed up to 2 Mbps depending upon technical feasibility.
The year 2007 has already been declared as the ‘Year of Broadband.’ BSNL plans to add a 5 million port capacity to the existing network of 1 million ports during 2007. The telecom services provider has a market share of 44% in this segment.
BSNL plans:
* BSNL has a very ambitious plan to add large capacity during 2007.
* More than 1000 cities / towns and 20000 villages will come under the broadband map.
* 10,000 exchanges in urban 20,000 exchanges in rural would be broadband enabled.
* All the telephone exchanges with more than 1000 lines will be covered under this expansion plan.
* By the year 2008, all gram panchayats will have Broadband coverage.
* Broadband coverage for all secondary and higher secondary schools and all public health centres by December 2007.
* BSNL is in the process of launching broadband access through WiMAX technology in about 1,000 block headquarters with support from the government which will cover an area of about 20-25 km in each block.
* BSNL is already in the process of launching triple play services over broadband in Pune and subsequently in Chennai and Bangalore.
* BSNL will also to start on-line gaming services over broadband very shortly under two categories — Standard and Premium packages — with monthly fixed charges of Rs 100 and Rs 200, respectively.The company release said that:
* Till now the minimum bandwidth available to broadband customers was 256 Kbps.? BSNL has now decided that all the Home and Business Plans will offer data rates up to 2 Mbps, subject to technical feasibility.
* Further, the downloading limits in Home 250 and Business 700 plans have been enhanced to 1 GB and 4 GB from 400 MB and 2 GB, respectively. The limits in other plans have been suitably enhanced. With the increase in downloading limit, a Plan 250 customer will get a benefit of Rs 840 per month for 1 GB limit and Business Plan 700 customer will get a benefit of Rs 2400 per month for limits up to 4GB.
* BSNL has also decided to bring down the per MB downloading rates from 1.40 per MB to Rs.0.90 per MB in Home 250 plan and the rates have also been lowered in other plans.
* BSNL has also decided to reduce the fixed monthly charges from ADSL modems from Rs 100 to Rs 60 per month which would benefit about 800,000 customer of BSNL. The reduction is applicable with effect from December 1, 2006.
Friggin awesome, just waiting for the official announcements of the newer plans! Now just one more thing, I need to assure that they ‘really’ provide that speed and at my unlimited bandwidth. Else am happy with my 256 UL 
UL (greater than) anything any day
wht I was talking in previous post is non of all “these mbps mad rush news ” not telling us about any thing about data caps . Further, they not talking about UL 900 plan & its data limits .
on Vinuthomas’s forum there is a good thread dedicated to it & ppl said wht & why with details knowledge . Wht imp is there are Home 1800 & 3300 plans are with more speed & more monthly charge so wht happen to them if @ UL 900 we getting 2 mbps then why they will shell out those freaking 1800 & 3300 Rs/month with those data caps with respectively.
so , we have to wait till they officially tell us that UL 900 will avilable for us with no data caps then we can call it Friggin awesome.
rahul
22 Dec 06 at 5:36 pm
BSNL/MTNL never advertise their UL.
Am sure enough they’re gonna do it, they will, as 256 one was silent and risky too!
Harsh J
22 Dec 06 at 7:44 pm
wow if they also offer unlimited downloads…then this will be awesome…
Madhur Kapoor
23 Dec 06 at 1:38 am
I really miss home after reading this!
I would suck BSNL dry..believe me.
I would leech atleast 9GB per day.
Ashwin
23 Dec 06 at 10:18 am
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Qwerty, the fonts look absolutely OK on ubuntu! So there’s some problem with Windows, i cant read anything on windows! Or probably its just with vista! Do check it out!
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Kalpik Nigam
23 Dec 06 at 11:04 am
@ashwin , after this news , we all want to suck it .
@Kalpik , as u said it might be wrong with vista , nothing wrong with my windows .
rahul
23 Dec 06 at 12:35 pm
manR
23 Dec 06 at 2:21 pm
Great! I have MTNL. I hope they’ll introduce the same changes at the same time!
Harshdeep
24 Dec 06 at 12:38 am
If this is really true.. I’ll phone to Deputy Manager office and tell him thanks.
[Note: /me and him are long term enemies.. ]
Sathya
24 Dec 06 at 5:11 am
MTNL didnt have a UL plan on their 256 line !
Wish they introduce one with 2MBps…
Else my 1Gb @ 2MBps speeds will be gone in a jiffy
DJ
24 Dec 06 at 10:50 am
wow its really a gr8 news but i doubt about the 900UL plan but if it exists then at 2mb it can surely be called broadband
Ankur
24 Dec 06 at 1:17 pm
No I am waiting for some annoncement from Airtel similar to this.
If BSNL really offers such speeds with UL then I may ditch my Airtel. 
Shivaranjan
25 Dec 06 at 9:28 am
Hmm.. Airtel will most definately announce something.. Dont worry! They have more bandwidth from BSNL (BSNL takes B/W from Bharti).
Funny! But now the fonts look OK wid Vista!
Kalpik
25 Dec 06 at 10:13 am
Grr, you made me work Kalpik
Harsh J
25 Dec 06 at 11:05 am
end of leecher’s dreams ,so sad ,I am heart broken .
rahul
27 Dec 06 at 12:38 am
ok, now 2 mbps started on bsnl in some cities.
http://bsnl.co.in/newsdetailed.php?news_id=352
for latest updates:
http://www.broadbandforum.in/Broadband-in-India-Forum-f7.html
net2007
30 Dec 06 at 4:39 pm
BSNL zindabad.
Bong
31 Dec 06 at 6:43 pm
And when i told u this on ym u dint blv me
Bong
31 Dec 06 at 10:19 pm