BSNL, the Govt owned and biggest Internet service provider in India, has upgraded and revised its home and business based usage and unlimited broadband plans for pan India customers. BSNL has upgraded its minimum broadband speed from 256Kbps to 512Kbps for most of the home based plans. Following BSNL broadband plans has got the speed upgrade BBG Combo 299, BB Home UL 499, BB Home Combo ULD 625, BB Home UL 750, BB Home Combo UL 750, BBG Combo ULD 850 and BB Home Combo ULD 900.
Just after MTNL announced the broadband speed upgrade on this Republic day, BSNL is following the path and has announced upgrade and revising of their broadband offering for all home based and certain business based broadband plans. Minimum speed of broadband has been made to 512Kbps and the maximum users now get is 4Mbps. Refer the table below to see changes in plans
Existing Broadband plans | Upgraded & Revised Broadband plans | ||
Plan Name | Bandwidth speed | New Plan name | Bandwidth speed |
BBG Combo 299 | 256 Kbps | BBG Combo 299 | 512 Kbps |
BB Home UL 499 | 256 Kbps | BB Home UL 499 | 512 Kbps Upto 4Gb, 256 Kbps beyond 4GB |
BB Home Combo ULD 625 | 256 Kbps | BB Home Combo ULD 625 | 512 Kbps Upto 4Gb, 256 Kbps beyond 4GB |
BB Home UL 750 | 512 Kbps | BB Home UL 750 | 1Mbps upto 6GB, 512 Kbps beyond 6GB |
BB Home Combo UL 750 | 512 Kbps | BB Home Combo UL 750 | 1Mbps upto 6GB, 512 Kbps beyond 6GB |
BBG Combo ULD 850 | 1 Mbps speed upto 8 GB and 256 Kbps beyond 8 GB | BBG Combo ULD 850 | 2 Mbps Upto 8Gb, 512 Kbps beyond 8GB
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BB Home Combo ULD 900 | 1 Mbps speed upto 8 GB and 256 Kbps beyond 8 GB | BB Home Combo ULD 900 | 4 Mbps Upto 8Gb, 512 Kbps beyond 8GB |
BSNL customers can enjoy this broadband speed upgrade with same cost. All plans will be upgraded automatically from February 1st, 2012. Some users are reporting that BSNL have already upgraded certain plans on 26th January 2012. Hope this move from BSNL will improve the overall internet usage in India.
Do comment what you think about this upgrade from BSNL.