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Why I hate MTNL’s Triband now.. [Updated]
Well,
Up until now, I always felt proud about the fact that I was here, sitting in Mumbai, enjoying an amazing “broadband” experience while my friends in the rest of India didn’t.
For starts, MTNL doesn’t count Uploads towards its monthly limit. Meaning, upload as much as you want, your limit won’t be affected which is not the case in BSNL. Also, MTNL’s basic plan was for a mere Rs.199 which allowed a monthly download of 400 Megabytes @ 256 kilobits per second. Also, MTNL’s only unlimited plan, allowed free downloads from 0000 hours ( 12 AM ) to 0800 hours ( 8 AM ) while the folks with BSNL enjoyed the same from 0200 hours ( 2 AM ) to 0800 hours ( 8 AM ) Thats a loss of 2 whole hours.
Well, its sad to say this, but all this is a thing of the past. MTNL now gives more and more reasons for me to hate it, with every day thats passes by.
Reasons ? Read on…
- MTNL Mumbai is yet to introduce an Unlimited plan ( 24 hour unlimited with no download limit ) although Airtel, BSNL and MTNL Delhi already introduced such a plan. I mean, if MTNL Delhi has an unlimited plan, why not Mumbai ?
With the recent free speed upgrades, provided by MTNL & BSNL, although both the providers upgraded they plans to features speeds “upto 2MBps” MTNL’s Night Unlimited plan customers are still stuck at speeds = 256 KBps. Yes that’s right. No upgrades for customers ( like me ) who have the Night Unlimited plan.- Not only that, along with the speed upgrade, BSNL also upgraded the Download Limits for all the plans. So the upgrade in speed was proportionate to the upgrade in download limit. However, the guys at MTNL, have just provided an upgrade in the speeds. The download limit continues to remain the same. So customers now enjoy faster consumption of their limits at speeds upto 2MBps :| ( Ohh I pity such customers )
So all in all, even though I have no complaints against Triband’s service, i still MTNL has lost the ability to keep its customers happy. Atleast me, would love it if they introduced an Unlimited plan.
I just rung up 1504 ( MTNL’s Triband’s helpline ) and I was told that that have no knowledge if they are gonna introduce any unlimited plan yet. ( Oh well … :| )
Not only this, but Airtel Broadband refuses to service my area, reasons unknown.
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Update 1: I have no idea how this is happening, but it seems god has answered half of my prayers. Believe it or not, I’ve been getting close to 2Mbps speeds since about 3 hours now. I hope they don’t revert back.
now time for us BSNL users to be proud ;)
but hey… the 2mbps is not for everyone. they say its UPTO 2mbps, only if its feasible from the exchange.
i’m on about 1 mbps rite now :) and the upload speeds rock but they’re slower than those of MTNL.
and whats more? now only either uploads or downloads (whichever reaches the limit first) is counted.
so keep hating MTNL >:) muhahahahaha
Counting upload is one of the worst thing can happen. I am thankful that MTNL did not decide to count the uploads.
About not providing unlimited plans - oh yea, thats the worst part actually, they should have done it. There are many many users who are waiting for unlimited plans.
I am currently on airtel and I think they have very limited connectivity in Mumbai, may be their testing period is going on. But their net conneciton is very good. I am on their unlimited plan which costs me Rs. 1000 a month.
@ Vysakh:
Yea yea, It is “upto 2MBps”. But what the heck, it is better than 256kbps na ?
@ Deep:
Exactly,
I’ve been waiting for Airtel for about 9 months now :( Their helpline says they don’t provide service in my area yet, even though I had placed a request about 9 months back and have been calling them every month. All this is more annoying knowing the fact that 2 mins away, they provide service in the Mindspace area.
Hey… Nice Theme :) Sadly needs a Logo.. :(
Thanks for the complement.
You already know, I am without a HDD plus I’m on Linux’s Live CD. Also, i am “suxor” at gfx. So its obvious you’re gonna make the logo :p not me.
BSNL rockzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I download more than 1.5 Gb in 6 hrs . Getting 210 Kb/s constant download speed
he he he BSNL rocks…Me night UL speeds are blazing. (6)
Man this mtnl is really annoying yar. they say they hav upgraded download speed but they r just fooling around and yes for NU plan no speed upgrade. wat is this i am a big hater of mtnl guys. but ofcourse BSNL rocks man both brothers but totally different.
soopa theme
Hmmm….
I’ve been having constant problems with BSNL! Damn them….
But the speeds are very pleasing… constant 180 KBps :D
And heck, I didn’t know MTNL Mumbai has no 256kbps UL plans! LOL!
And hey. remove the HUGE Digg, Technorati and RSS feeds images. They look bad there. Make them smaller.
And register yourself at feedburner. Its much more advanced than the crappy RSS feeds of WP !
why i hate mtnl……..
poor internet connection + pathetic tech support = mtnl