BSNL *Revised* Free Night Usage Broadband Charges with New Plan Names

[powerhoney]

Not true at all. Binary relationship don't work on Share-market companies.

One example from India - BSNL offers much better service+coverage+rates than Vodafone(atleast this is my experience. I think people have habit of blaming BSNL just for the sake of it. Yes, i understand that they don't keep hot chicks with shirt-pants to offer u overcostly plans with hidden charges but i feel superb visiting government owned mansion-sized BSNL office where i can sit n drink tea, and eat even bhajiya outside, and it has a big sized parking lot too. I feel i am in USA or in some parking of Russian defense laboratory. Going to vodafone stores is a sucking feeling in constrast - hot chicks but sad faces, not enough space to even stretch ur legs and they don't let u sit more than necessary. Well, that's the advantage of BSNL - YOU own that place, its public and i love it. )

One example from USA - Walmart has lost in USA. Americans are forcing their politicians to bring laws to ban Walmart because its transferring all business activities(plus all infrastructure) under ownership of ONE FAMILY, while reducing whole population into mere "employees".

BSNL exists in India because our culture promotes "self-employment". We are not "Lets be worker of Mittal" type nation. In India, its considered bad tobe an employee(a person who is dependent on others for earning). Even Lohar(iron-smith) never worked under anyone, he owned his little shop, he was free & independent. Same with farmer, he owns his own land. He has freedom to work or not work, but noone can force or bully him. Similarly, working for BSNL gives u feeling of working for india, for its people because each penny of BSNL is from public money, not private investment of Mittal or some family.

Do we want to see BSNL under Sunil Bharti Mittal? Well, i don't give a f*ck to him, nor i want to see such Indian-public owned assets being sold to him. He can goto USA or Africa, and do this to them. Also, his decision is his responsibility. His actions are not binding on Indians - they can't say "we opened our markets to Mittal-Mart, now open urs for us". Well, we didn't ask u to.

How we deal with power of "Corporations" and "Globalization"(overhyped word) is something not properly discussed in India. It was forced through backdoor just like every other decision indian leaders forced upon people. Also, there are outlets(universities) where u can sell such crappy products to new generation so they become used to this in early age. This is like this because India never had a leader who was from grassroots. All leaders(PM) have reached top only after due-dilligence with powerful nexus. And i expect this situation to remain same even in future till some uprisng happens from massbase below & demolishes this BJP-Congress mega-brotherhood from political scene.

+1000 to this!!!

Kinda like LPG in management!!! (Liberlization, Privatization, Globalization)

It's got it's own pros and cons... I think BSNL is doing a far better job than the other telcos in the rural areas!!!

 

[kg11sgbg]

Not true at all. Binary relationship don't work on Share-market companies.

One example from India - BSNL offers much better service+coverage+rates than Vodafone(atleast this is my experience. I think people have habit of blaming BSNL just for the sake of it. Yes, i understand that they don't keep hot chicks with shirt-pants to offer u overcostly plans with hidden charges but i feel superb visiting government owned mansion-sized BSNL office where i can sit n drink tea, and eat even bhajiya outside, and it has a big sized parking lot too. I feel i am in USA or in some parking of Russian defense laboratory. Going to vodafone stores is a sucking feeling in constrast - hot chicks but sad faces, not enough space to even stretch ur legs and they don't let u sit more than necessary. Well, that's the advantage of BSNL - YOU own that place, its public and i love it. )

One example from USA - Walmart has lost in USA. Americans are forcing their politicians to bring laws to ban Walmart because its transferring all business activities(plus all infrastructure) under ownership of ONE FAMILY, while reducing whole population into mere "employees".

BSNL exists in India because our culture promotes "self-employment". We are not "Lets be worker of Mittal" type nation. In India, its considered bad tobe an employee(a person who is dependent on others for earning). Even Lohar(iron-smith) never worked under anyone, he owned his little shop, he was free & independent. Same with farmer, he owns his own land. He has freedom to work or not work, but noone can force or bully him. Similarly, working for BSNL gives u feeling of working for india, for its people because each penny of BSNL is from public money, not private investment of Mittal or some family.

Do we want to see BSNL under Sunil Bharti Mittal? Well, i don't give a f*ck to him, nor i want to see such Indian-public owned assets being sold to him. He can goto USA or Africa, and do this to them. Also, his decision is his responsibility. His actions are not binding on Indians - they can't say "we opened our markets to Mittal-Mart, now open urs for us". Well, we didn't ask u to.

How we deal with power of "Corporations" and "Globalization"(overhyped word) is something not properly discussed in India. It was forced through backdoor just like every other decision indian leaders forced upon people. Also, there are outlets(universities) where u can sell such crappy products to new generation so they become used to this in early age. This is like this because India never had a leader who was from grassroots. All leaders(PM) have reached top only after due-dilligence with powerful nexus. And i expect this situation to remain same even in future till some uprisng happens from massbase below & demolishes this BJP-Congress mega-brotherhood from political scene.

+100000... to this un-biased logical comment.
I myself being a BSNL subscriber of BroadBand since 2007 onwards(changed 2~3 plans) now currently under ULD999 plan,at least won't have to worry about INFLATED,FALSE bills every month,despite its crappy services.

 

[whitestar_999]

since when did pvt companies became synonymous with family owned companies.as for being self employed you are confusing it with indian govt employees mentality of zero responsibility.i guess you don't know that bsnl has to pay you discount if your phone is non functional for more than 3 days & guess what an RTI activist recently in a maharashtra district exactly asked the same question about how many customers phones are not working for more than 3 days & whether bsnl has given them discount resulting in a hurried action by BSNL of a total return of almost 3 crores to thousands of customers fearing TRAI action.imagine the situation in whole of india.let some pvt operator like vodafone delay a recharge of even Rs.50 & some ppl even start abusing on helpline simply because they know pvt companies attitude regarding customers,try that with bsnl local office in the same tone with your phone discount for non-functioning & you will see what exactly the difference is.

the reason airtel & every other isp has such crappy plans is because of lack of competition & monopoly of bsnl(what someone can do if the only option he has is either bsnl or airtel or sometimes none meaning only bsnl).if bsnl allow small pvt isp in every district to use their copper wire network to provide internet services by charging such small isp a reasonable fee we would see a lot more competition which will force companies like airtel to take notice but guess what bsnl employees oppose it because it means more work & responsibility even if it is profitable for the company.in fact i think bsnl should maintain a minimum presence in broadband & mostly act as network provider for other ISPs & charge them instead of charging customers which will increase competition & decrease rates(remember the good old days of bsnl monopoly when a landline connection was considered as a status symbol).

 

[skeletor]

Nothing against either BSNL/public owned or private owned companies but yeah...

If my BSNL line has a problem, I own the problem. It is MY problem. Not BSNL's. BSNL won't fix it. I own the problem. yeah. I can go to BSNL office, drink chai and eat bhajiya, come back home and feel happy about the chai even though my problem is unsolved.

To sum up BSNL/MTNL landlines and monsoon/rain,

"woh baarish baarish nahi, agar aapki BSNL landline mein dialtone nahi."

I'm still stuck with BSNL though. I hate Airtel with a passion for starting this FUP crap. Won't pay a paisa to Yaartel. No experience with Yedafone.

 

[ithehappy]

Hmm, don't know about their broadband, still even with all my extreme anger I will have to say they are one of the most consistent out there. But landline? I honestly don't remember which year it was when we took BSNL landline, 1997 or 98 I think, but since then I think I've seen a problem in their landline once or twice. It's something immortal to me, dial tone never goes, nothing that goes practically. So to be quite honest landline and it's insane stability is the only thing about BSNL which I like.

 

[topgear]

I agree with [MENTION=26711]ico[/MENTION] on woh baarish baarish nahi, agar aapki BSNL landline mein dialtone nahi This is just so true and for the past 30 days I've complained at-least 7 times about the same. Still the line is not completely stable hence I'm not using it anymore and thinking about some other alternatives.

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So, people who've downloaded with FN usage are doomed this month;

even I've not got any notice until 8th july but it's not people but BSNl which is going to be doomed.

if bsnl wish to change the plan on july, they should inform this to the customers in june. a bad business from bsnl. i hope alteast some people protests.

Now this is really a fugly situation and unlike railways not many people use BSNL. So you won't see a political protest or any thing like this about the issue. Only a little number of people are complaining to BSNL's official and at pg portal. But so far there's no positive result.

 

[skeletor]

I looked at this page:

*www.bsnl.co.in/opencms/bsnl/BSNL/services/broadband/BB_home_only_unlim.html

It says for the BB Home UL 545, "Bandwidth (Download Speed) : 512 Kbps flat." Now at present I have the 2 Mbps plan, and the download speed is around 230 kB/s; does this mean the UL 545 plan will give a download speed of 512 kB/s or will it give about 64 kB/s?

Small b is bits.

Big B is bytes.

8 bits = 1 byte.

The unit of information is bit, so all communication information rates are mentioned in terms of bits per second i.e. small bps or b/s. Remember this throughout your life and now you do the math.

 

[quagmire]

Look at the replies most troubled custoners received :

Is BSNL’s Broadband Strategy Hurting its own Growth and Driving Customers Away?

Its about time we all boycott BSNL and watch them burn..

 

[amjath]

Look at the replies most troubled custoners received :

Is BSNL’s Broadband Strategy Hurting its own Growth and Driving Customers Away?

Its about time we all boycott BSNL and watch them burn..

I'm moving from BSNL to Docomo wired broadband after ~6 years of service. Reason: price and plan

 

[sam1]

recently moved to cable bb after a almost a decade with bsnl bb. the stoppage of night unlimited helped make the decision easier. very happy with this one!!!!

 

[Faun]

I'd gladly change but no other option.