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.

Good news for BSNL EVDO seekers in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala.

According the report from two members of our forum, BSNL EVDO service is now available in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh and Palakkad, Kerala. The Ujjain user ashwinisoni, has reported that the speed ranges from 1 to 1.5 Mbps approx and the Palakkad user living in Akathethara has reported the speed of upto 1.6 Mbps max and according to his friend report the speed tops 2.2 Mbps near Olavakkode.

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.

As part of the hike in monthly rental, BSNL apparently has decided to give out something more to it’s customers. So from today (July 1st 2009), BSNL has now enabled National Roaming facility for this service. This means, you can now use this device anywhere in India where the network and service is available without any extra cost for usage.

To avail this service, you will have to get your device reconfigured at your nearest BSNL Telephone exchange. This information is from a Bangalore user in our forum. If you are living in some other city, please make a query about the reconfiguration for National Roaming facility (be specific about roaming) at your nearest exchange.

Thanks to jameandrew for this information. You can discuss more about this news over here.

As part of Roaming Facility to be enabled, BSNL EVDO monthly rental will be increased by Rs. 100 from tomorrow. For instance, if you are paying the monthly rental of Rs. 550, it will be increased to Rs 650. This new tariff is effective from July 1st 2009 for all new customers. And for existing customers who are using this service for Rs 550, must have to upgrade to higher plan. (i.e Rs. 650) after being used the service for at least 6 months. For more information, please visit this page.

If you consider this hike as a bad news, you might be wrong. BSNL will soon enable Roaming facility for this service. So that you can use this device in other cities all over India where the service is available without any extra charges.

Thanks to one of our member for updating us about this news in this thread. You can use the same thread for the rest of the discussion.

There is a good news for EVDO seekers in the above mentioned cities. BSNL EVDO is now available in Kolkata, Trichy and Durgapur (West Bengal). In Kolkata, only Rajarhat Newtown is EVDO enabled at the moment. While rest of the city has CDMA 1x coverage. Eventually, BSNL will expand EVDO availablity in Kolkata as time passes.

So EVDO seekers in Kolkata must wait a little longer to let BSNL enable EVDO network in your area. If you can’t wait, you can get the EVDO device now itself and start using CDMA 1x network which is offering stable 144Kbps in Kolkata. Later when BSNL enables EVDO service in your area, you can get your device reconfigured and start using EVDO network. One of our forum member, Sanipan has started using EVDO device with CDMA 1x network. Go here to read what he says.

We have not yet received any review from users in Trichy and Durgapur, West Bengal . If you avail it, please do write a short review on the service and it’s quality/performance and your user experience and we will appreciate your contribution and publish it here.

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.