BSNL Prepaid Broadband

Posted by admin on October 31, 2009 in category: Internet, broadband, BSNL

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched prepaid Broadband services for its subscribers in Karnataka Circle. The service will be extended to other circles progressively by the end of the year.

Advantages of Prepaid Broadband:

• No Fixed monthly charges: There are NO fixed monthly charges associated with Prepaid Broadband services.
• Mobility: The customers can use their prepaid BROADBAND account in any city in the Country (except Delhi and Mumbai) on most of the BROADBAND enabled connections of BSNL. An existing postpaid customer can subscribe to additional prepaid connection which will give him the advantage of mobility.
• Control on usage: The customer can never exceed his download limit. No bills will be served for usage.
• Sharing of DSL connections: A group of prepaid BROADBAND customers like students, professionals can share a single DSL connections.
• Corporate houses can control the expenditure on BROADBAND usage of their employees by subscribing to prepaid ROADBAND connections.
• Attractive Tariff: The tariff has been designed to suit every segment of customer.
• Overcome hassles of bill payment: With prepaid BROADBAND connection, customer can overcome the hassles of bill payment. Recharge can be done with voucher from anywhere in the country.

Installation charges and Modem charges shall be collected in advance through Demand Note through the local commercial system at the time of application for Prepaid BB connection. In case of customer having his/her own modem, only Installation charges shall be collected in advance through Demand Note through the local commercial system at the time of application for Prepaid BB connection.

Initially the customers will be given an account with username / pass word with 50 MB free download and validity of 15 days. Before the expiry of validity or download limit, the customer will have to purchase Re-charge Vouchers (RCV) available in different denominations and recharge his/her account.

Two types of prepaid account:

Unlimited Download: There are four types of vouchers of different denominations which offer unlimited down at speeds ranging from 256 Kbps to 2 Mbps which can be used for unlimited down load within the validity period of the voucher.

Limited Download: There are 9 types of vouchers of different denominations which offers limited download at speed upto 2 Mbps within the validity period of the voucher.

For limited Plans, balance usage value if any available will be carried forward, in case of recharge within the Grace Period *GP-I (i.e. 15 days). Beyond 15 days (*GP-I), balance usage value if any available will not be carried forward, but the customer can recharge his account upto another 75 days (**GP-II). After expiry of the additional grace period of 75 days (**GP-II), the account of the customer shall be deleted from the system.

In addition, there are two other types of Recharge Vouchers for limited plans. For extending the validity period (Validity Voucher)

For increasing the usage (Top up Voucher) within the validity period

The customer interested to subscribe for prepaid broadband service should have BSNL landline connection. For more details, log on to BSNL Website