In an attempt to defend its rapidly shrinking turf in the wired broadband segment due to cut throat competition with private National and Local ISPs, State owned BSNL has today announced that it will be upgrading all existing Broadband plans for both old and new customers to minimum speed of 2Mbps pre FUP.
After the FUP quota of allotted free data is exhausted the speed will revert back to 512 Kbps like before. All upgraded plans will come into effect from 1st October 2015.
Though this is a welcomed move from BSNL it would have made the deal sweeter had the operator made the Post FUP speed a minimum of 2 Mbps. Especially for plans of flat 512 Kbps the new upgraded speed of 2Mbps for just 1GB actually seems like merely a formality for maintaining uniformity in the 2Mbps pre FUP speed initiative.
The details of the upgraded plans on a pan India basis is as follows:
| Plan Name | Existing Bandwidth | Revised Bandwidth |
| BBG UL 545 | 512 Kbps Flat | upto 2 Mbps till 1 GB, 512 Kbps beyond |
| BBG Combo UL 675 | 512 Kbps Flat | upto 2 Mbps till 1 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BBG Rural Combo UL 650 | 512 Kbps Flat | upto 2 Mbps till 1 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BB Home UL 645 CS35 | 512 Kbps Flat | upto 2 Mbps till 1 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BB Home Combo UL 775CS36 | 512 Kbps Flat | upto 2 Mbps till 1 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BBG Combo UL 5500 CS73 | 512 Kbps Flat | upto 2 Mbps till 1 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BBG Combo ULD 845 | 1 Mbps till 6 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond | Upto 2 Mbps till 6 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BB Home Combo ULD 899CS37 | 1 Mbps till 6 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond | Upto 2 Mbps till 6 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
The following upgraded plans are applicable only in Tirupati, Kurnool, Anantpur, Warangal & Nellore service areas of AP circle
| Plan Name | Existing Bandwidth | Revised Bandwidth |
| BBG ULD 545 | upto 1 Mbps till 10 GB, 512Kbps beyond | upto 2 Mbps till 10 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
While the following upgraded plans are only applicable in Khammam, Ongole, Karimnagar, Cuddappah, Mahboobnagar, Nizamabad, Nalagonda, Adilabad, Srikakulam & Vizianagaram service areas of AP circle
| Plan Name | Existing Bandwidth | Revised Bandwidth |
| BBG Combo ULD 675 | upto 1 Mbps till 10 GB, 512Kbps beyond | upto 2 Mbps till 10 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
| BBG Combo ULD 845 | upto 1 Mbps till 12 GB, 512Kbps beyond | upto 2 Mbps till 12 GB, 512 Kbpsbeyond |
Only time will tell whether this new tactic resorted to by BSNL will work in its favour to arrest the growing rate of disconnections and surrenders and helping them add new subscribers.
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