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India’s leading telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has come up with an offer, exclusively for its CDMA data card users if they are interested to move to GSM/3G.
In view of diversion of EVDO BTSs/Kits from Andra Pradesh, Punjab and Chennai telecom circles BSNL is decided to offer migratory offer for EVDO data card users.
BSNL will provide 3.6Mbps USB GSM/3G data card to customers free of cost, if the EVDO data card is surrendered to BSNL. Not only that these customers will get 10GB 3G data plan for only Rs 750 as monthly rental for 6 months. After 6 months users can opt for any postpaid plans.
All existing terms and condition for activation of postpaid data plan will be applicable. This offer is applicable for a period of 90 days from 29.01.2013.
Chethan S. March 11, 2013 at 10:00 pm
BSNL’s decision to shutdown EVDO services only did good to me! My EVDO got downgraded to CDMA 1x a week ago in Hyderabad. A connection where I used to get > 2 Mbps speed started giving only 0.2 Mbps! Without any second thought I got it disconnected immediately.
My visit to BSNL office revealed more about the above offer – you will have to deposit ?1000 towards refundable deposit to avail it.
Being in Hyderabad I had the inherent advantage of choosing Beam Fiber who offer next generation optical fiber broadband. I went with B-Max 660 which offers 3 Mbps upto 20 GB, beyond that 786 kbps, all at ?660/month. If you opt for 6-month payment free installation. All you need to do is plug in the cable and log in to beam portal to surf internet, no modem/router necessary! This is in stark contrast to all major ISPs in India which require complicated router/modem setup demanding help from their staff. You will be on your own on this if you are using elite operating systems like Linux! By making this switch I will be saving nearly ?200/month.
A M Ranjan March 5, 2013 at 3:41 pm
I would like to purchase a BSNL CDMA datacard for my SAMSUNG ACE(Android) mobile.
Anybody may give their suggestions regarding this.
Nikhil March 25, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Dont waste your time and money. Samsung Ace GSM+CDMA is worst handset. Go for Samsung Galaxy Y CDMA, but you can not run BSNL CDMA card for EVDO service in that hanset even it is EVDO Rev A handset.
Muthukumar_Trichy February 25, 2013 at 6:46 am
3g Prepaid Sims in Android mobiles (voice and data) are convenient compared to Data only modems.
Our operators must have realised that customers may have ‘post-paid-phobia’ and ‘prepaid-mania.’
Sougata Dhar Chowdhury February 15, 2013 at 11:50 pm
I will not accept and move to 3G even if free modem is offered. EVDO is steadier albeit quite slow compared to what it was at the time of its introduction. And EVDO is much cheaper and it offers true unlimited usage without any FUP.
I will only move out of EVDO when compelled to do that, i.e. when the EVDO service is withdrawn.
Kedar February 14, 2013 at 10:48 pm
When It will come in Maharashtra?
Rajendra February 14, 2013 at 3:24 pm
EVDO now being outdated..BSNL is making a good move by redirecting Outdated technologies to rural areas(As they also enjoy some CDMA services in the places where they are hard to find GPRS signals), and upgrading new services in cities.instead of scrapping the old equipment redirection idea is good
Ruchir February 14, 2013 at 1:50 am
Great info Mr. Rudra. I always think BSNL has always under utilized its potential and it could have trapped a big market.But ended up in a mess always coming up with new schemes here and there,most getting unnoticed ever.And basic issues never addressed.Reason for being a laggard,reason being a badly managed PSU
Sushant February 13, 2013 at 9:23 pm
BSNL is closing lots of towers and this has been going on for months. They are almost bankrupt and needs cash to keep mobile and broadband networks running. They shut down EVDO in my city months back without any information and also some of the cdma 1x towers too.
Dont see any benefit in above scheme. The avg speed of EVDO I got was 150+ Kbps, cost was 650+ tax/month. 3g is way expensive in comparison.
Subhadeep Kanungo February 13, 2013 at 7:21 pm
As far as I know BSNL will not surrender CDMA. Only thing is that for time being CDMA service is being redirected to North East to see how much customers are interested there. If the number is lot then BSNL will introduce CDMA there also as well as will bring back CDMA in exixting circles also. BSNL also has started to upgrade 3G BTS with GPON technolgy in Kolkata which will increase 3G speed to 10Mbps.
Sarbjit Singh February 13, 2013 at 7:01 pm
I came to know through BSNL officials, they are going to launch 3G in this month or from starting March 2013 in Punjab. They are testing 3G configured BTS with new hardware and removing unused WiMAX hardware.
som February 13, 2013 at 4:30 pm
is this offer valid only in the above mentioned circles or in all circles? could you provide some more info regarding this?
MS February 13, 2013 at 3:05 pm
I don’t know what bsnl has in its mind but From last 25 days data speed of bsnl cdma 1x is reduce to 55kbps.it was 144kbps before.
amarrdiip February 13, 2013 at 2:50 pm
bsnl going to shutdown evdo in these circle?
karan February 13, 2013 at 6:04 pm
no they are just removing extra towers in some areas…
Nitesh Kumar February 13, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Hell……….no use of such schemes !!
raju February 13, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Speed change from 3.1 to 3.6Mbps only…no one will be interested.CDMA better than GSM for data transmission.Is bsnl going to surrender its cdma spectrum?