Honeymoon over for BSNL Broadband users?
July 15th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 55 times, 1 so far today
Honeymoon over for BSNL Broadband users?
BSNL broadband has gone paid with their download limits. There has been a lot of raving and ranting about the same in various forums. As if, there is anything that would happen. BSNL had this promotional scheme that would see “unlimited downloads†for anyone who was willing to sink his/ her hard earned money in the pit less coffers of government behemoth. Close on the heel of its launch, much of the advertisement blitzkrieg was targeted towards the “Broadband for Rs 500″ catchphrase.
That is roughly about $10. I remember some “telecom analysts†went overboard to claim that India has “arrived on the broadband sceneâ€. Initial glitches apart, user reaction has been mixed. Very frankly, there is no rationale for download limits. We are still far off from realizing our true potentials. Elsewhere I had mentioned that BSNL is scrambling to put up billing servers (which are still not in place) and content delivery systems.
However, I really wonder as to how they hope to stream live video over 256k line. To make possible the impossible? Is the honeymoon really over for the people who had taken to file sharing et al? There is no official word yet. D. Maran is twitching and twiddling his thumbs, while the decision making process is perhaps stuck in the endless labyrinthine valleys of government offices. Something that all Indians are used to.
This post was submitted by Dr. Abhishek Puri on the Broadband Blog on Techwhack.
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July 17th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Well said … I feel the users might have the last laugh… but till then it is stuck in the huge government hierarchy
July 17th, 2005 at 01:57 am
Well said … I feel the users might have the last laugh… but till then it is stuck in the huge government hierarchy
August 15th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
sify sucks………
August 15th, 2005 at 12:06 pm
sify sucks………
August 16th, 2005 at 09:38 pm
U are absolutely right!!!!! Only Sify Broadband is the best!!!(Sify paid me also to write the reply)….
August 16th, 2005 at 11:08 am
U are absolutely right!!!!! Only Sify Broadband is the best!!!(Sify paid me also to write the reply)….
September 4th, 2005 at 09:20 pm
Hi,
Man this BSNL broadband connection sucks ! I have a connection, and I’m scared to use it! Its fast, its hip, its useless ! I just downloaded a single copy of Borland JBuilder Enterprise using torrents and its 900mb. I think I will download the Enterprise Server next month if I still have the phone??? Its absolutely useless to a programmer ~ Anway, I waiting for my bill I did some serious downloading earlier in Linux ( JDK 5, MySQL, Tomcat, JacORB for CORBA) about another GB, seriously, It’s been 2 days since I got the connection, and I’m already wondering about the bill ? This is nuts !@@#%@#&^&*
With Regards and keep away Warnings,
Ruben :-)
September 4th, 2005 at 10:50 am
Hi,
Man this BSNL broadband connection sucks ! I have a connection, and I’m scared to use it! Its fast, its hip, its useless ! I just downloaded a single copy of Borland JBuilder Enterprise using torrents and its 900mb. I think I will download the Enterprise Server next month if I still have the phone??? Its absolutely useless to a programmer ~ Anway, I waiting for my bill I did some serious downloading earlier in Linux ( JDK 5, MySQL, Tomcat, JacORB for CORBA) about another GB, seriously, It’s been 2 days since I got the connection, and I’m already wondering about the bill ? This is nuts !@@#%@#&^&*
With Regards and keep away Warnings,
Ruben :-)
April 1st, 2006 at 01:32 am
Hi Guys,
Got my BSNL Internet bill – Rs 35,000/ for my JBuilder Download and other files! I guess I could have purchased it for a little more. My friend Nahas who uses only emails got a monthly bill of Rs.5000/-. It is a terrible scheme !
Regards,
I’m Doomed!
April 1st, 2006 at 01:02 pm
Hi Guys,
Got my BSNL Internet bill – Rs 35,000/ for my JBuilder Download and other files! I guess I could have purchased it for a little more. My friend Nahas who uses only emails got a monthly bill of Rs.5000/-. It is a terrible scheme !
Regards,
I’m Doomed!
July 11th, 2006 at 07:08 pm
gee abhishek whats ur deal! tere ko ladki bhi chahiye , sundar bhi chahiye. paisey waali bhi chahiye.. :))))
July 11th, 2006 at 08:38 am
gee abhishek whats ur deal! tere ko ladki bhi chahiye , sundar bhi chahiye. paisey waali bhi chahiye.. :))))