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Calcutta Telephones – the Kolkata metro unit of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has listed the details of CDMA 1x and EVDO BTS location on their website.
As per information given there, CalTel has installed 316 CDMA BTS, among them 143 BTS are EVDO enabled, while 173 BTS are just equipped with CDMA1x. That means only 45.3 % BSNL’s CDMA BTS are EVDO enabled.
It also reveals that in Bidhannagar, City, North Kolkata and South Kolkata you will get quite vast coverage of BSNL EVDO. While in sururban areas like Alipore has only 34% of BTS with EVDO enabled; while Barrackpore and Srirampore area has less than 10% of BTS with EVDO enabled.
There is high demand of BSNL EVDO in Kolkata sub-urban as BSNL offers true unlimited data usage on EVDO at the cheapest price and these areas have lack of fibre based broadband operators like Reliance, Alliance, Meghbela and Airtel while 3G/HSPA services are quite costly.
As BSNL has chosen Huawei, ZTE and Alcatel-Lucent for their network expansion we only can hope that company will expand EVDO network in Kolkata’s sub-urban areas.
Details of BSNL EVDO locations all over Kolkata:
| No of CDMA BTS | No of EVDO enabled BTS | % of EVDO BTS | |
|
49 | 17 | 34.7 |
|
35 | 31 | 88.5 |
|
32 | 3 | 9.3 |
|
18 | 18 | 100 |
|
7 | 7 | 100 |
|
37 | 12 | 32.4 |
|
34 | 18 | 52.9 |
|
17 | 17 | 100 |
|
33 | 3 | 9.1 |
|
17 | 17 | 100 |
RANA August 14, 2012 at 7:03 pm
@Tapash Debnath
What EDVO offers is amazing … & economical too ..I am from barasat {kolkata -700126}..I want to subscribe it …But , I am confused..Could anyone tell me what is actual state of service of EVDO in barasat..download speed , stability , location of the nearest tower ..And if tower is installed at all here , then how can @Tapash Debnath is getting service in Habra ?
Reception {Barasat Telephone Exchange } told me ” It is available ” But someone fro Broadband Section told me ” It is not available ” ..Commercial Officer was not available when I contacted ..
Tapash Debnath August 6, 2012 at 9:12 pm
I am from Habra (North 24 Parganas). I bought EVDO confirming that network coverage is good in our locality. Most of the time i stay near Saltlake in Chingrighata. I stay in my home only in weekends. I thought that if it is giving good speed in my area i.e. far from Kolkata then it will certainly give good speed in Kolkata too. But my expectations broke when I found that in my home speed is decent enough. I got 100kbps download speed in an average,but in Kolkata(Chingrighata) speed is very poor. Signal strength is very poor and I can hardly open any page for browsing. Download speed not more than 15 kbps in an average. So its not more than any 2G connection. Its very unusual to have good strength in rural areas but poor signal strength in Metro!!!
Probal Mitra July 7, 2012 at 7:59 pm
for bsnl is there any wimax enabled tower in belur, howrah?
ankush May 22, 2012 at 8:52 am
you are rgt bro… in dis regard when i contacted BSNL, the employees told me the real reality. they told me that its the whole conspiracy of UPA govt, as the DGM,GM,CGM & above all are not BSNL staff and they are on deputation in BSNL and are looting this company. The govt. dnt want to take this burden to take back to DoT. In short, decision taking officers have nothing to do with BSNL and there deciosions are either rubbish or in the favor of pvt companies.
Chinmoy May 22, 2012 at 12:56 am
You are right Ankush , even the AMC for EDVO BTS from ZTE is over . Existing EVDO BTS will die its natual death very soon . And with greedy and corrupt officials in BSNL the accelaration will be faster . Kalyani is a small township in Bengal and its known as Education Hub . It has 5 University , 4 Engineering College, 1 Medical College , 1 Law College , 1 General Degree College ( and counting ) . The need for Internet is very high here . It falls under Barrackpore Division of Calcutta Telephone . All three EVDO BTS under Barrackpore Division is in Kalyani only . Out of these three 2 BTS is down with cable being stolen for long . Telephone Exchange has a worst Customer Care team and they now stopped selling EVDO and discourage people of using the same since connectivity is very poor . Poople has now no choice but shift to TATA Photon Plus or MTS MBlaze.
Interestingly this location had Calcutta Telecom’s first 4G BTS too (WiMax and not LTE ) and after running sucessfully for a year , WiMax BTS also had its natual death . God save BSNL !
Sathish May 21, 2012 at 11:06 am
List of Areas having BSNL – EVDO Coverage(BTS-location) in Chennai City:
1 ADYAR
2 Ambattur_Exch
3 ANNA NAGAR
4 ANNA NAGAR WEST
5 ANNA ROAD
6 ANNAI INDIRA NAGAR
7 ARUMBAKKAM MMDA
8 AVADI
9 CHENGALPATTU TOWN
10 CHROMEPET
11 CIT COLONY MYLAPORE
12 ETHIRAJ SALAI
13 FLOWER BAZAAR
14 GOPALAPURAM
15 GUINDY
16 HADDOWS ROAD
17 HARBOUR
18 INDIAN BANK SHOLINGANALLUR
19 IRUNGATTUKOTTAI
20 J.J.R NAGAR
21 JJR QTRS
22 K.K. NAGAR
23 KALMANDAPAM
24 KANCHEEPURAM EXGE
25 KANCHI NILAYAM
26 KEELKATTALAI
27 KEELKOTTAIYUR
28 KELAMBAKKAM
29 KELLYS
30 KENDRIYA VIHAR
31 KODAMBAKKAM
32 KOYAMBEDU
33 KUMANANCHAVADI
34 MADHAVARAM
35 MAMBALAM
36 MAMBALAM DTO
37 MANALI
38 MARAIMALAI NAGAR
39 MEDAVAKKAM
40 MEPZ
41 MUGAPPIAR EAST
42 NANGANALLUR EVDO
43 NEELANKARAI
44 OLD PERUNGALATHUR
45 ORAGADAM
46 PERIAMET
47 PERUMBUR
48 PERUNGUDI
49 POONAMALLEE
50 PORUR
51 RAM NAGAR AMBATTUR
52 RAMAVARAM
53 REDHILLS
54 RK NAGAR
55 SAIDAPET MADHA CHURCH
56 SEMMANCHERI
57 SHENOY NAGAR
58 SIRUSERI
59 SRI SAI MAHAL VALASARAVAKKAM
60 SRIPERAMBADUR
61 TAMBARAM EAST
62 TARAMANI LINK ROAD
63 THIRUMAZHISAI
64 THIRUVANMIYUR
65 TIDEL PARK
66 TIRUVALLUR
67 TP ROAD
68 TRIPLICANE
69 TRISOOLAM
70 VALLUVAR KOTTAM
71 VANDALUR
72 VELACHERY
73 VILLIVAKKAM
74 VIRUGAMBAKKAM
ankush May 21, 2012 at 8:43 am
this expansion in not possible because BSNL is using ZTE’s EVDO and from 2010 the ZTE has stopped production of EVDO BTS,,,, and now BSNL has to re-tender from new companies and it vl take tym,,,, till then use only 1-x
Jagan T May 20, 2012 at 8:04 pm
A request to TT Team,
We need a report of BSNL EVDO coverage in larger cities in pan India.
som May 20, 2012 at 5:28 pm
@RDB,they probably published this info because of your repeated mailing.instead of enabling the tower with EVDO,they mentioned the no of EVDO enabled towers.if you could stick to the gun,may be in future they will do something about it!!
best of luck to all barrackporians
Chinmoy May 20, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Out of the three BTS under Barrackpore Zone two are in Kalyani and both does not work ! BTW , RDB thanks a lot for good analysis . Nice post,appreciated .
Krishna May 20, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Coverage range and traffic handling capacity of CDMA EVDO BTS is more than GSM BTS, this might be the reason for BSNL not having all BTS EVDO equipped.
krishnendu May 20, 2012 at 1:54 pm
how to know about coverage in a specific area?
Bhaskar May 20, 2012 at 1:51 pm
I am using MTS M-Blaze Rs 303 Plan. Free browsing between 12 Am to 6 Am . I get Around 2500kbps between these hours. I stay in New Alipore.
ved May 20, 2012 at 8:54 am
i am getting 40KBps (320Kbps) here in bhilai…..sometime around 20 KBps what to do any complain no..and network is full……
Dhananjay kumar May 20, 2012 at 8:05 am
I want to know that how BSNL EVDO works at Naval Base Kochi? How is speed and coverage? Pls intimate me on my email.
Nilay May 20, 2012 at 1:32 am
I am using BSNL EVDO for the last 3 months and the service is more or less satisfactory…but tower sometimes fluctuates here in P.A.Shah Road-Abhishikta Bypass Connector Area..quite slow in camac street..blazing fast in Moulali…even in shantiniketan (Bolpur) and bandel I got near about 900 kpbs speed with BSNL EVDO