LAUNCH OF PRE-PAID BROADBAND AND HIGH SPEED (24 Mbps) INTERNET SERVICES ON VDSL BY BSNL ON 23rd Oct 2009

Bangalore, Today, Shri Kuldeep Goyal Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is launching prepaid Broadband services. The service will b e extended to other circles progressively by the end of the year.

A pre-requisite for customers willing to subscribe to prepaid Broadband services is to have a BSNL Land line connection. A customer willing to subscribe to this service in Bangalore can register on the portal (www.bangaloretelecom.com for Bangalore and www.karnataka.bsnl.co.in for Karnataka). Alternatively the customer can SMS “PPB” to 9448077777 or in case he has a landline send SMS “PPB to 9448077777 or approach the BSNL Customer Service Centre (CSCs list available on www.karnataka.bsnl.co.in). The customer will need to fill up a Customer Application Form (CAF) before the connection is provided. The customer will also have to either own a modem or opt for outright purchase of modem from BSNL. 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. A customer can opt for either of the following two types of prepaid account:

Unlimited Download: There are four types of vouchers of different denominations which offers 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: The are 9 types of vouchers of different denominations which offers limited download at speed upto 2 Mbps within the validity period of the voucher.
In addition, there are two other types of Recharge Vouchers for limited plans. One, for extending the validity period (Validity Voucher) and the second, for increasing the usage (Top up Voucher) within the validity period. The tariff details etc are attached herewith .

The prepaid BROADBAND customers get following advantages over post-paid BROADBAND customers :

No Fixed Monthly Charges: there are no fixed monthly charges for prepaid BROADBAND service.
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 BROADBAND 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 any where in the country.

BSNL started Broadband services (on DSL lines) on 14th of January 2005 from Bangalore and as on date, we have 4.3 million customers nationally. BSNL has already installed BROADBAND capacity (DSL lines) of 8.5 Million out of which 1.5 Million ports are in rural area . BSNL is ready with DSLAMs for giving BROADBAND connections in almost all the 32,000 exchanges in the country which includes rural exchanges also.

Apart from wireline access , BSNL offers high speed connectivity on wireless using CDMA technology though EVDO cards. In addition, shortly we will be expanding latest state of the art technologies like Wi-Max and 3rd Generation GSM services ( 3G) all over India (including Karnataka).

Chief General Manager

BSNL, Karnataka Telecom Circle