Recently, BSNL has made a small changes in the tariff structure in Chennai. Unfortunately, it includes a bit of hike as well. So this post is a mixture of good news and as well as bad news.

I’m quoting vaithy’s post from the forum:

There are some good news for the old EVDO users and there are some bad news for the new users who are yet to take connection. Let us see the good news.. those who are paying Rs.550/ will have to shell out additional 100/- in their monthly bill.. provided they completed six months activation ..W.e.f 01-03-10 they will have to pay Rs.650/- (other circles users are already paying Rs.650/- so there is no increase for them..

The bad news is,
If you are a new user activating the card between 01-03-10 and 31-03-10 then will have to pay the monthly rental charges of Rs.750/-
and worse case is, users who are activating the cards after 31-03-10 have to pay Rs 999/- as monthly rental
Please see the attachment and post your comment.
Thanks

To download the attachment and discuss, visit the original thread over here.

Good news for people in Krishnagar of Nadia District in West Bengal and Tuticorn, Tamil Nadu. BSNL EVDO is now available in your place.

According to our forum members, BSNL has started EVDO service in these two places. We have got no details or reviews about Krishnagar. As far as details in Tuticorn is concerned, Sipcot & Muthayapuram Areas & surronding 4-5 Kms from the area have coverage.

Thanks to our forum members for updating us in this thread. If BSNL starts EVDO service (be it CDMA 1x or EVDO), please kindly inform us in that thread which helps others like it does in this post.

This is the question that I come across many times in the forum, site comments and even via emails. Lot of people still do not have any idea about where to get the new connection and buy the device. So just to clear out that doubt among the mass, I decided to write this post. So here is how one can get a BSNL EVDO Connection.

First things first..

BSNL EVDO is offered officially by BSNL. Since they do not have any official name for this service, people call it “BSNL EVDO”. The irony is, even workers at BSNL will say “BSNL EVDO”. They must come up with some name like they have for other services.

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Chennai was one of neglected city by BSNL during the early stages of EVDO roll out in India. But now, it looks like BSNL has put Chennai one step further and working out on installing new towers (BTS) and expanding their EVDO network coverage through out the city.

And to make users get the information regarding the network coverage, BSNL has put up a page containing the details about many areas. The list contains the name of the area where the network coverage is available and the likely speeds you can expect in that area. They have done a good job by putting up the page and by making customers to get information easily.

You can find that page over here. This page was recently updated. And I had posted this earlier here. Thanks to vaithy for informing about the recent update.

Good news at the end of the year for the people living in the Kanpur, UP and Tirupur, TN. BSNL EVDO service is now available at these cities/towns as reported by our forum members.

We got no user reviews so far. If you avail this service in any of this place, please write a small review and share with us in our forum.

Thanks to our forum members for updating us in this thread. If BSNL starts EVDO service (be it CDMA 1x or EVDO), please kindly inform us in that thread which helps others like it does in this post.

Existing BSNL EVDO users can now breathe a sigh of relief, as BSNL has officially confirmed the withheld in changes to the unlimited tariff for its existing customers. It’s good to see that BSNL has reacted for the queries, petitions and requests which were raised by some of their customers. We must be thankful for those who made an effort in contacting BSNL for this very own sake.

Quoting from the official site:

* Existing EVDO customers would continue to avail the unlimited data usage@Rs 650 per month

This means, all existing users can continue enjoying unlimited internet at Rs. 650 per month. However the asterisk sign in the very beginning of that sentence also says that it might be for a time being. And they might increase the unlimited tariff for existing customers as well.

To conclude, it will be good for both BSNL and as well as its existing customers as far the price for unlimited tariff remains the same. If they still have future ideas of hiking for their valuable existing customers, they will definitely lose some of their customers in very short period of time.

I would like to thank ashish_evdo for updating us with the news and dark_king for bringing this into my concern via his BSNL-EVDO-CLUB SMS Channel.

UPDATE:  BSNL HAS DECIDED TO WITHHELD THE HIKE. More Info

There was a rumor/news/buzz going on in our forum regarding the discontinuation of Unlimited plan on EVDO service. It has created a stir in the existing customers, and many are even planning to move on to some other ISP. And it was confirmed that BSNL has brought some new changes in it’s EVDO tariff after some customers got a notification stating the change in plans and regarding the Unlimited plan and even BSNL published the new plan on their site to fuel the fire.

So I decided to get the official news straight from the BSNL and sent a mail to JTO in Bangalore who is in charge of EVDO service. He is friendly and is in touch with me since I started this website and forum. After exchanging some mails, I’ve gathered the official news here in this post. Hope you all find it useful.

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Good news to EVDO seekers in above mentioned cities. BSNL has extended it’s EVDO services in Dehradun of Uttarkand and Jabalpur of Madhapradesh. We got no user reviews so far. If you avail this service in any of this place, please write a small review and share with us in our forum.

Thanks to our forum members for updating us in this thread. If BSNL starts EVDO service (be it CDMA 1x or EVDO), please kindly inform us in that thread which helps others like it does in this post.

P.S: This post was scheduled to be published on 29th of Oct. Due to some mistake while scheduling, the post didn’t make it. So it’s republished.

Before getting started, I would like to thank vaithy, one of our forum member for giving us such a great valuable piece of information to the community and especially for Chennai users.

vaithy, has collected a huge list of coverage detail across 96 areas in Chennai city. The list includes the “Name of the area” and “Expected speed”. To read this list,  go here.

And vaithy has another good news for Chennai users as well. BSNL is now upgrading from REV 0 network infrastructure to REV A network technology which is capable of delivering speeds upto 3.1 Mbps against conventional 2.4 Mbps of REV 0 technology.

If you have any information like this, pleas let us know and we would be very happy to publish it over here with pleasure.

Good news for BSNL EVDO seekers in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and the god’s own country Kerala. BSNL EVDO is now available in following states as follows:

Maharashtra (MH): In Maharashtra this service is now available in Virar and Vasai located at Thane District in suburbs of Mumbai.

Tamil Nadu: In TN, Thirunager in Madurai is the addition. People can now avail this service in this place.

Kerala (KL): Kottayam, Gandhinagar, Pampady, Pala, Changanacherry (Kottayam District) and Kodungallur in Thrichur District.

I would like to thank to Anush for letting us know about the MH Coverage, sasikumardr and Aravind Jose. T for KL coverage and sgarasu for TN Coverage. If BSNL starts EVDO service (be it CDMA 1x or EVDO), please kindly inform us in this thread which helps others like it does in this post.