What is BSNL Doing With Its Wired & Wireless Broadband AssetsBroadband is getting into daily requirements for us. But we still define broadband as 512 kbps (thanks to TRAI, for updating the definition from 256kbps), while many countries offers more than 10 Mbps on wired connection on a basic plan.

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India’s wired broadband market is dominated by state owned BSNL. With wide coverage area including rural areas BSNL turns to be the only choice of broadband in most areas.

In spite of BSNL’s huge broadband subscriber base, customers are not happy with BSNL. We are discussing the thing here.

ADSL Broadband

Wired broadband sector has almost zero competition from private players, except some metros. It has been more than 4 years No Speed Upgrade on plans we have seen. Last time BSNL upgraded its bandwidth to 2Mbps from 256kbps almost 4 years back.

That time BSNL really kicked out private players like Sify from the broadband market, but after 4 years private players upgrade their plans and they are now at the same league of BSNL. Even MTNL brings such exciting plans while BSNL is completely silent regarding broadband.Prepaid broadband tariffs are almost double of postpaid ones, and not even a single customer will take it.

What people want from BSNL Broadband:

Upgradation of bandwidth 4Mbps from 2Mbps.

Night speed upgrade unlimited plans like MTNL

Introduce 768Mbps, 1Mbps unlimited plans at affordable rate

Reasonable pricing on prepaid broadband

Separate Landline from broadband.

Fiber Broadband (FTTx)

BSNL has fibre based broadband (FTTx) in few selected areas. Also tariffs are high for general customers. Private players like Beam Telecom already unleashed fiber broadband in Hyderabad and got immense response due to affordable tariffs.