BSNL: 2007 is year of broadband in India

Government owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced the next year as the year of the broadband services in India.

The company has announced their plans to increase the broadband speed for their customers from 256 kbps to up to 2 mbps.

This service would be provided for a meager sum of Rs 250 per month, from January 1 next year. This move would benefit as many as 8.2 lakh broadband users around the country.

In addition, BSNL also plans to increase the free download limit from 0.4 gigabyte to 1 gigabyte. Extra downloads would be charged at 90 paisa per megabyte down from Rs. 1.40 per megabyte.

A K Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director, BSNL added that the limit for corporate customers would be enhanced to 4GB. In other words, you can check your emails at a blazing pace considering that’s what you can do to stay within the offered download limit of 1 GB – 4 GB.

BSNL further said that they are working on launching an online gaming service.