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| Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| BSNL Cuts Tariffs for Corporate + Non Retail Customers |
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With severe competition from private players, BSNL has slashed Bandwidth tariffs for corporates and Non-Retail Customers. Details of new broadband Tariffs [for 12 months] are as follows,
- A 45 Mbps leased line will now cost Rs 1.8 crore for a corporate who is not an ISP [Earlier this package was costing Rs 2.7 crore]
- A 1 Mbps line will now cost mere Rs 4.5 lakh for corporates and Rs 5.1 lakh for ISPs
- A 256 Kbps leased line will cost Rs 200,000, rates slashed from Rs 270,000
- All educational institutions are further eligible for a 20% discount on bandwidth less than 2 Mbps and 40% discount on bandwidths higher than 2 Mbps.
Kindly note that these schemes are mainly for corporates and SMEs. Now, you maybe wondering who will opt for a 1 Mbps leased line when they can get 1 Mbps unlimited data transfer plan for as low as Rs 15,000 / month. Well, their are SMEs who have their web-servers for clients hosted on such infrastructure. Also , stock brokers in Mumbai have to have a leased line connectivity with the stock exchanges and hence these schemes. |
Published on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 9:41 PM  |
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| Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| Largest WiMax Network - BSNL |
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 State Owned BSNL has tied up with SOMA Networks to deploy and provide WiMax based wireless broadband in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra covering population of 200 million people.
The network when up and running will be the largest WiMax deployment in the world beating Sprint-Nextel network. BSNL will adopt 802.16e standards.
Mr. Ahuja, MD of soma Networks said,
Once the service is commercially launched, consumers will be able to get wireless broadband access at a minimum speed of 256 kbps. The advantage of wireless broadband is that it will allow subscribers to get access to the internet wherever they are within a state as long as they carry the modem with them. We are not quite sure on why BSNL is always planning to goto Rural India when they can double their business here in Bangalore and other metros using their existing copper networks. There is terrific demand for broadband and yet BSNL has turned deaf to our demands with arrogant customer care executives.
Related Reading:
Reliance WiMax Broadband Woes Continue
Tata WiMax Broadband - Not Upto Mark |
| Published on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 10:41 PM |
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| Tuesday, January 01, 2008 |
| Internet Subscribers Statistics |
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 According to data released by TRAI [3 Months Old, Audited at the end of Sept-2007], India had 9.63 wireline internet subscribers. Broadband subscribers number is at mere 2.47 million. Surprisingly, there are over 46.37 million wireless internet subscribers who are on the web using GSM/CDMA telecommunications technology.
The Top 5 ISPS in India are
- BSNL - 4.4 million subscribers
- MTNL - 1.8 million subscribers
- Sify Ltd - 0.709 million subscribers
- Bharti Airtel Ltd - 0.706 million subscribers
- Reliance Communications - 0.60 million subscribers
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| Published on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 at 5:34 AM |
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