Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Free upgradation of MTNL Triband

From January 1, 2007 MTNL will upgrade existing Triband users except Night Unlimited plan users :( to speeds *upto* 2Mbps.


Though it may seem a good gesture from MTNL, it is pretty much useless. This only means that you will be able to use up your precious mb's faster. Many have fallen prey to the ploy of faster connection speeds and lower download limits. Usage charges for new users running into a few thousand of rupees is not unheard of. This gift from Triband will not make their lives any easier.

The most basic and popular Triband plan is TriB 200P which offers a download limit of 400mb. To use up this much bandwidth would take around 4 hours at previous max speed of 256kbps. Now by increasing the speed by 8 times the available download limit will get over in less than an hour. With Triband one has to be very vigilant of this.

A more appropriate New Year Gift(as the Ad in Times of India claims) would be to increase the measly monthly data download limit without any increase in the cost of the plan. I called up at their toll free number 1504 to check whether there is any change in the monthly data download limit. Sadly this isn't so.


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