BSNL has issued an advertisement in Prominent national Daily Times of India dated 23 march informing new broadband plans for old and new customers. The prices:
A good news for all Bsnl Evdo & NIC card customers. BSNL has listened to you and have enabled national roaming on Evdo/NIC data cards. According to a announcement on BSNL’s website romaing is now available all customer without paying any extra charges by default; subject to network feasibility.
Now you can take your data card anywhere in India and browse internet, the only condition is that area should have a CDMA network nearby. earlier, bsnl data card(NIC/EvDO) only used to work in subscribers home state. this feature makes bsnl data a true Internet-on-Go Solution. till now anyone needing national roaming had to depend on upon their crawling GPRS connections or internet card from Tata & Reliance which costs a bomb compared to bsnl affordable data card. By enabling romaing is trying to compete with private telecom operators who provide nationwide wireless data service.
Now The Bad news is:
Bsnl has hiked monthly rentals by 15% for all customers. this hike is effective immediate for new customers. for existing customers, there is no change for now and would count getting billed at old price. but after six months; from January 2010. they would be burdened with increased prices.the revised rentals are as under :
| Sl. No. | Particulars | Tariff of NIC Card (Unlimited) in Rs. | Tariff of EVDO Card (Unlimited) in Rs. |
| 1. | Activation charges |
250 |
500 |
| 2. | Charges for Cards | ||
| i Sale Price of ICC Card in Rs. |
2500* |
3500* |
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| ii Alternate to purchase of ICC : | |||
| ii (a) Fixed monthly charges for card |
150 |
200 |
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| ii (b) Security Deposit (refundable) |
1000 |
1000 |
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| 3. | Fixed Monthly charges for Unlimited Internet Usage in Rs. |
350 |
650 |
| 4. | Free internet usage | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 5. | Addl usage charges | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| 6. | Roaming facility (Intra & Inter Circle) | As per technical feasibility | |
Even after price increase BSNL evdo is a value for money product. I would recommend it to all looking for internet-on-go solution.
Bsnl Evdo Data Card
Download driver software for bsnl Evdo data card.Although these drivers come in CD supplied with data card but sometime you loose the cd, you you can download them here. also these are updated version of driver which work nice with vista and windows 7. older version of Evdo driver has trouble working with vista and win 7. these are windows only drivers, for linux you don’t need any drivers.
Modem: ZTE AC8700
Supported OS:Windows(win 7, Vista,XP,2000)
BSNL has once again reduced charges for broadband modems which it gives to its customers for using broadband service. this reduction is done on all modem types, with charges for rental & outright purchase being reduced.what’s surprising is, that this rate cut came without any formal announcement from Bsnl. the telecom giant has simply updated its broadband tariff page with reduced rates. Here are new rates:
Modem Type Price
Type-I Rs.1000
Type-II Rs.1600
Type-III Rs.1000
Type-IV Rs.1600
Modem Type Price
Type-I Rs.50
Type-II Rs.80
Type-III Rs.50
Type-IV Rs.80
Earlier type-I & type-III modem’s sale price was Rs.1200/-, which is now Rs.1000/- and Price of Type-II & Type-IV was Rs.1800/-, which is now Rs.1600/-. so there is about Rs200 decrease .
We don’t know exactly when this charges are being reduced. But people tell me, this is done long time back, so it won’t be a new thing for many. Any rate cut from BSNL is welcome, so posting it here. Now I am Looking forward for more, cuts in future!