Jan 20, 2006 03:16 PM
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(Updated Apr 09, 2006 06:47 PM)
Hi there, I had been using BSNL's service (post-paid-325) for over 3 years. But in those 3 years nothing changed. Yes they keep adding new towers but it does not keep up with customer demand and their follow the leader strategy, makes them late comers everytime!<p<p> The only good thing about them is that they have the widest network coverage in India and that they are cheap if you are on post-paid plans. But is cheap a good substitute for network congestion? for call dropping ? for wrong message going to your friends that cell phone user is busy or switched off? <p><p>
To get things in perspective,80 % of the time (between 9-am.9-pm) that I would try to make a local call, I would get network busy! while for STD it was hardly 20% of the time, was this because they make more money on STD so it is given a priority call? Now imagine the situation you are stuck somewhere and are in emergency, what are you going to do? wait for the network congestion to clear ? I don't think so!<p><p>
Oh yes, their GPRS service is the cheapest.....but did they tell you it doesn't work in Mumbai or Delhi, as those bases are covered by MTNL ? And you can't access GPRS on the move because most of BSNL' states (clubbed into south / north etc) have different GPRS settings? Can you believe this ? With any other provider, be it AirTel or Idea, one setting across all India. But with BSNL, hey its a different ball game!<p><p>
Things really got out of hand, when in a emergency I wanted to make a call, but guess what? ''Network Busy,please try after some time! '' Why do people buy a mobile? To stay connected and get in touch when needed, so for this very basic reason (forget the wallpapers / ringtones / themes--we are not kids!), and I assume you already possess phones(with MP3/ Bluetooth /Pda functionality), where you can directly download MP3 songs from your computer, rather than pay the ridiculous amount of 20Rupees for a 20 second jingle!<p><p>
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I have suffered for 3 years at the hand of BSNL, I don't wish the same to happen to you.
