BSNL - bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has done a fine job in providing every indian with a b-fone by which he can avail a lot of servies including dial up internet connection. Being the first service and that too from the public sector, it is a cheap way the Indians can connect. BSNL Landlines were the only means of communication for the common man about 5 years back.
But now the scenario has changed dramatically. When the mobiles came in to exiatance or when fixed wireless landlines were introduced in India by reliance every one who had a mobile or a wireless landline would also have a BSNL landline for sure. But now its not so. People have started trusting Reliance and Tata indicom completely. Let me tell you what the reasons are, most of them are my observations alone.
We will get a wireless landline connection instatly. No waiting and no waiting lists. But that's not the thing with BSNL. You have to wait long. Your name will be added at the end of a long waiting list and you would be given a date which will be after 3 months for sure.
What we get with a BSNL connection is a b-fone which is only good enough to make calls. But with Tata or Reliance you get a much advanced phone in which you can send and recive SMS, and has got speakerphone, modem, polyphonice tunes and lot more features as in a mobile phone.
Fixed Wireless service providers give its users a dial up connection with speeds at alomost 3 times the speed of BSNL's dial-up and the modem is included in the phone itself. The access rates are competitive too. Also BSNL dial-up is getting so messed up with lots of users. Logging on at busy hours and during the day is increasingly becoming a nightmare.
Wireless Landline means you dont have to mess up with all those long wires and remain mobile in your home and even in your city. You can take your phone along with you when you go shopping.
No wires means no broken wires and no damaged connections. Also there is no risk of damage to phone from lightning or other power realted errors provided you do not keep the phone connected to the power ( to charge the batteries or so) when something wrong might happen. And no such errors means there is no extra payment of repair fees or so to the local service persons.
Also most of the fixed Wireless providers have got a prepaid plan. So you can have total control over your billings.
Fixed Wireless providers also have got lots of flexible plans suitable for people at every spheres. If we consider any of these factors the only good thing that a BSNL Landline can have with them is comparitively cheaper ratings and also the reliability of being a public sector industry.
But with rates getting better day-by-day I am prety sure the Fixed Wireless prividers are gonna make the whole thing look much better. It would be good to choose a Fixed Wireless connection if you are looking for a telephone connection and you dont have one yet. I dont think you would like to wait 6 months or so before you can make your first call from your own telephone.
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