India’s National Telecom Backbone and Pan India 3G mobile service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the extension of its promotional offer of 3G Data Plans at discounted rates for 3 months.
Now BSNL 3G subscriber (Prepaid and Postpaid) using 5000 MB, 10,000 MB and 15000 MB plans can enjoy discounted price up to 40% for another period of 3 months i.e.up to 31st March 2012. Earlier the 3G Data benefit offer was valid till 31st December 2011.
on 6th September this year, BSNL has revised its 3G Data offerings and announced the new increased price of certain Prepaid STVs and Postpaid Fixed Monthly Charge (FMC) as we earlier shared on TelecomTalk.
Interestingly, leading private operators like IDEA Cellular, Vodafone India, Aircel and Reliance Mobile (Rcom) launched such a discount scheme called as “Double Dhamaka” or “Double Data Benefits” offer valid till December 2011 and BSNL’s Discounted 3G Data Plans was also valid till 31st Dec 2011.
Well, now BSNL extended its offer to the 31st March 2012. Lets see private operators follow this move to provide affordable 3G or not !
| Prepaid 3G Data Plans /STVs | |||
| MRP of 3G Data STVs | Discounted Price of 3G Data STVs. (Valid till 31st March 2012 | Free Data Usage(Home and Roam) | Validity |
| Rs.1250 | Rs.750 | 5000 MB | 30 Days |
| Rs.1800 | Rs.1260 | 10000 MB | 30 Days |
| Rs.2250 | Rs.1575 | 15000 MB | 30 Days |
| Note: Price may vary from Circle to Circle by Rs.3 (+/-) considering local market conditions etc. Beyond Free usage data charges will be Rs.0.04 /10KB | |||
| Postpaid 3G Data Plans | |||
| FMCs 3G Data Plan | Discounted Price of 3G Data FMC (Valid till 31st March 2012 | Free Data Usage(Home and Roam) | Data Charges Beyond Free Usage |
| Rs.1133 | Rs.680 | 5000 MB | 4p/10 KB |
| Rs.1633 | Rs.1143 | 10000 MB | 4p/10 KB |
| Rs.2039 | Rs.1427 | 15000 MB | 4p/10 KB |
Vibhas December 24, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Photon Plus even though it generally claims to give speed upto 3.1 Mbps it generally gives speed of .3-.4 Mbps…at the same time it is very reliable unlike BSNL 3G..which is not reliable at all..but TATA giving a speed of 10% of what they promise…is not acceptable…only Mukesh Ambani can herald a revolution in India..waiting for 4G and expecting to have at least 40% of peak speed..then only telecom companies can change,,
Vibhas December 24, 2011 at 5:27 pm
I took a 3G sim for 59..did the first recharge coupon of 120..and then further recharged by 750 in an impression that I will get 5 GB of data…to my astonishment I got total data validity of approx. 13 GB…I am still unable to do the mathematics of it…today somehow being an exception 3 G seldom works on Saturdays and Sundays..so the services are not reliable even on weekdays though generally able to connect..and I can see 3G tower from my window…
Hitu December 22, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Bsnl speed is very fast.
I like TELECOM TALK site
Anand December 21, 2011 at 5:30 pm
@arun kumar
yes it is correct
Riju December 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm
one thing you remember that you get airtel broadband in city are only.
Hebin Mathew December 21, 2011 at 11:36 am
@arunkavi
U R right… I’m also getting the same speed. But this speed will get only in phones which can support WCDMA/HSDPA(High Speed Downlink Packet Access) which results high consumption of battery. We will not get the same speed in Edge or GPRS.
Saurabh December 21, 2011 at 10:47 am
BSNL has returned BWA spectrum for 9 circles to DoT and telecom ministry is ready to auction 1 slot in 20MHz band of BWA spectrum on Pan-India basis. Govt. will pay back 80-90% of the amount it receive from auction to BSNL. DoT expecting Rs.13000+ crore from the auction. It is also said that BSNL will return spectrum in other 11 circles also. Good move by BSNL.
Hope Govt. bring in exit policy for 2G/3G spectrum also in NTP and players like Etisalat, Loop holding Pan-India 2G licenses can exit and also S-Tel(holding 3G spectrum in 3 C-category circles) and facing credit crunch can surrender it and re-auction of it help other telcos.
mansoor Ahmed December 21, 2011 at 10:38 am
now they are coming almost same to the Broadband Tariff plans,this BSNL Tariff if cheap if you compare to Airtel Broadband 649, for refer ( http://www.airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/airtel.in/airtel.in/home/forme_newuser/broadband+and+fixed+Line/broadband/tariffs/ ). Also let the 3G services be provided in following rate:-
1 GB Pack for Rs 150.
2 GB Pack for Rs 300.
3 GB Pack for Rs 450.
4 GB pack for Rs 600.
This would be a Better pricing Strategy as of now till the Customer get the Cheap 3G Services or 4G services.
instead of getting 1 Single Customer of 5 GB Usage, they can get 5 Customer of 1 GB usage.
novicefreak1 December 21, 2011 at 10:01 am
still not affordable…..want 2g plans, 3g speeds!! that should be correct.
Nix December 21, 2011 at 9:37 am
@Arun kumar : i get average 20 KBps on my Tata DoCoMo Gprs (2G) . In early morning it crosses 35KBps
arunkavi December 21, 2011 at 8:23 am
Listen everybody… if u blame the government then reside in any other country which provides high speed data….i activated 2g data pack for rs 89 now i am getting download speed of 35KBps and browsing speed of 280kbps….i bet no network can beat this .
Abhijith December 21, 2011 at 7:35 am
@ved
nice to hear it Bsnl is faster . .
arun kumar December 21, 2011 at 6:27 am
in kerala bsnl 2g is very faster.. i got 25-35 kbps
Foxy December 21, 2011 at 6:01 am
KUCK BSNL,
KICK BSNL
BRING 3G DATA @ RS.100/GB
ALSO ON (LANDLINE ADSL)
anshu December 21, 2011 at 3:05 am
airtel 3g is better than bsnl
kankan December 20, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Complaints made to BSNL just like crashing your head with wall nothing will happen to wall…….@akhilesh
Jai December 20, 2011 at 11:25 pm
In 2g bsnl i activate plan for 3days 200mb but speed so bad max 5kbps i can’t spend my data i spend only 10mb in 3days.
Shame shame bsnl.
akhilesh December 20, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Fooling …Looting
Hole Bsnl 3G server is Down
Never Getting Speed More than 48kB/s
MAny complant’s but no positive action..
while it was 4Mbps 5 mth ago
Now
Speed Down RAte Down
What is New Here..
ved December 20, 2011 at 9:36 pm
3G speed in y Area
1.Reliance 16.2 Mbps
2.Airtel 5-6 Mbps
3.Docomo 4-5 Mbps
4.Idae and Aircel 2-3 Mbps
5.Bsnl 1-2 Mbps …..
Reliance 3G is really fantastic …….Superior 3G in my area earlier getting 20.1 Mbps but now getting 16.2 Mbps ……..
rudresh December 20, 2011 at 9:33 pm
lol useless plan
soumya December 20, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Idea cellular has already extended the double benefit offer till 31st March 2012..
Abhijit December 20, 2011 at 7:56 pm
BSNL told it will provide 14Mbps speed on 3G but now a days BSNL hardly giving 1Mbps speed on 3G.. So first improve your network and at least provide Said speed…
kankan December 20, 2011 at 7:50 pm
But BSNL provide very poor 3G speed as compare to other 3G private operators, it is my personal experience.
Bsnl’s 3G downloading speed is satisfactory but uploading speed is horrible slow.
Manish December 20, 2011 at 7:42 pm
True said……
Saurabh December 20, 2011 at 7:23 pm
BSNL revised data plans in September but Idea Cellular was giving double data benefits from July, 2011. Even Reliance triple benefit was announced days before this revision by BSNL though plans got updated on websites later. So they didn’t followed BSNL. It was BSNL who followed them.
BTW plans are still out of reach and BSNL 3G is still not present in my town.