I keep changing my broadband (triband from MTNL) plans every few months..keep checking the mtnl website or come across some hoarding somewhere about new data plans.
I started with the 399 plan (1GB limit 1Mbps) few years back. Never bothered to change until two years back. Once the overseas skype calling started and also when the internet usage widened from just email to chat, music, videos etc..the data plan had to change when the bills started to shoot. I found out from my usage summary that my downloads were close to 2-3 GB So changed it to a Rs. 750 plan (5GB download limit). It worked well for 2-3 months. Then one of the months we had some long skype talks. I think it was triggered when I bought a Belkin Wifi Router and now we could keep moving the laptop wherever we wanted and still keep Skyping. So as we say in marathi.."thode laadat aalo..." The next month the bill showed the usage going to 9GB and we had to pay the extra usage charges...whoa..burned the pocket..Immediately changed to an unlimited plan and after that I changed the unlimited plan twice trying out different speeds. The first one had low speed during the day and it changed to close to 1 Mbps at night when I was back home. But 384 kbps during the day was very slow..my dad cribbing about him not able to open even gmail (had to select basic html mode for that too). So tried to get an uniform speed one..one that gave 700 kbps during the day and some 800 kbps during the night for Rs. 749. That was cool..but then there was greed..the more speed the better..heard about the "xpress unlimited plans" from MTNL. So got it changed yesterday. So for Rs. 750, I get 2 Mbps speed till 15GB download and then 752 kbps for further downloads. Sounds good. Checked the speed using speedtest.net and found a peak of 1.8 Mbps now. I think 2 Mbps is gonna be the limit considering the bottleneck of ADSL technology. The next step can only be a continuous unlimited 2 Mbps connection whenever MTNL offers it for close to Rs. 600-800. After that, either MTNL changes the cabling to Fiber and changes the modems too or we have to switch to Wifi for higher speeds......
Current unlimited plans: http://mtnlmumbai.in/index.php/unlimited-plan
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