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Need clarifications on Airtel broadband

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:46 PM PST

Hi, i am new to india and resides in New Delhi, i am using Airtel Broadband, before asking for the installlation i saw the handbill which entails the different plans, i asked for the 20GB (Turbo) a month which is stated to be Rs1299-/ per month at 4Mbps speed.

 

but i was surprise after like 28days i was billed Rs642.52-/

 

now i dont understand anymore.

 

also i have a landline with the connection which they said i have 1000 minutes of local calls, i have been using it, but i wish to recharge it so i can use it to make international calls, how is this possible?

 

I will really appreciate if somebody can tell me about how airtel charges and how i can recharge the landline.

 

Thanks

 

Goodbye BSNL

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:42 PM PST

Goodbye BSNL! I finally have an viable option and can consign my BSNL broadband connection to the garbage. To be honest the service was not too bad - I had the 8 GB @ 2Mbps plan and by and large connectivity was okay. But the speed was never up to the mark. And on the few times I had problems, their customer service was so bad I felt like ripping the phone lines out of th wall. Firstly, they only work from around 10 AM to 5 PM. So what happens if there is a problem outside thosehours and urgent work is held up? And if you do call during working hours, it takes ages for anyone to answer - the average is the phone rings for about 10 minutes. And once you get an asnwer the oeprator is least interested in hearing about the problem - she is in a rush to give you a complaint number and go off.

 

But what made me decide to finally give BSNL the kick was a couple of weeks ago when the connection kept going on and off every few minutes. After the usual headaches I was able to maek a complaint in the morning. When nothing was done till late afternoon I spent another half an hour tryign to call them again. When I got through and said that nothing had been done about my complaint, the operator said that there is nothing she can do and gave me the number of the local telephoen exchange and said I should phone them. That number was, of course, always busy.

 

Another ongoing issue with BSL is that at fixed times everyday - aroud 5 PM and 10 AM in my case, the bandwidth dropped considerably. Other sers tell me that this is because BSNL allows public sector clients to use excess bandwidth - its a government to government thing and the hell with private users.

 

There are other service providers who offer up to 40 GB downlaod (upload not taken into account for calculating usage) at speeds of up to 15 Mbps. There is no reason why anyone should use BSNL. I am happy I got rid of this third rate organization.

BSNL Broadband Tariff Hike Details

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:41 PM PST

BSNL to modify its tarrif plans for Unlimited Broadband

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New Delhi: Telecom Company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to modify and boost the prices of its ADSL Postpaid Unlimited Broadband Plans for its existing and new customers, which the pan-India operator offers to its users and the change will come into effect from March 1st, 2013.

The expected price hike of the Unlimited plans will start from Rs 25 and a maximum of Rs750.

For example, the BB Home ULD 499 plan which costed Rs.499 will now cost Rs 525 to the users while the BB Home ULD 750 plan which costed Rs.750 until now, has seen an increase of Rs 50 and will now cost Rs 800.

To all the users, who have been using the BBG Combo ULD 2150 plan, you will now have to pay an extra of Rs 100 and pay Rs 2250 per month while the BB Combo ULD 3300 has seen an increase of Rs 200 in the price and will now cost Rs 3500.

So all the customers be prepared to pay this extra amount!

Now Bsnl getting Cruel on Broadband no extra speed only Hike in Prices

BSNL recharge on unlimited plan

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:37 PM PST

Hello,

Just got a evdo prepaid card and SIM. I paid 1199 and they gave free 399 rs amount in the account. I asked them about the unlimited plan and they told me to recharge another 400 rs and it will become unlimited. So I went to paytm website and recharged 400 rs and now the balance is approx 915 rs. But still when I browse, I get SMS like "your balance is deducted so and so"..

 

If I'm on unlimited plan, why do I receive such sms?

 

Also how to confirm that I'm in unlimited plan.

 

when I went to register http://genext.bsnl.co.in/cdmaprepaid , it sent me a PIN number to my CDMA number, but I didn't receive it still, so cant use that site at the moment.

 

Please help.

New BBG 795 plan from BSNL (Not so great)

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 11:38 AM PST

http://chennai.bsnl.co.in/News/BBGULD795.htm

 

795 - 2 mbps for 8 GB & 512 kbps beyond. 

 

Basically, they have cloned the 900 plan & removed the 350 calls & made it as per existing landline plan. Might turn to be expensive if you dont have a higher range landline plan. If you are in the 900 plan, you are better off continuing perhaps


On a second glance, looks like they have brought back the stand alone BB plan of 800, but instead of 1 mbps till 6 GB, they have replaced it with 2 mbps till 8 GB & reduced Rs.5 to that plan..


People on BB Home ULD 800, should probably look to migrate to this one. But yeah, better read the fine print to make sure you are not loosing something..

Google Now for Android Updates

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 11:09 AM PST

Google Android Jelly Bean Voice Search Demonstrations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ePUYp6HPU&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfZCeQdRXs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmixtB9dZM

European Union aims to have 30mbps for everyone by 2020

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:49 AM PST

http://goo.gl/1jxZU

 

Under the European Union's Digital Agenda for Europe, all member states are to offer a minimum level of 30Mbps broadband to everybody by 2020. (Some countries, like Denmark and Finland, are already nearly there.) But last month, over $9 billion designated to accelerate this broadband deployment was slashed from the EU budget as part of massive budget cuts. The cuts have raised doubt about whether the soon-to-be-28-member-nation group will make the 30Mbps goal. But Neelie Kroes, the EU's Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is still intent on getting to that ambitious target.

 

MTNL VDSL Model disconnection issues

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:48 AM PST

Hi

I have an MTNL VDSL connection, with an Alphion ARGT 1040 wired model(supplied by MTNL), used in conjunction with a DLink Wireless modem. 

My connection keeps dropping very frequently, and it always gets fixed by restarting the MTNL modem.

Has anyone else faced this issue, and is there a fix for this? Apologies if this has already been addressed at another place in the forum..

 

Thanks

Help configuring Dlink DSL-2750U for Idea wifi broaband

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:09 AM PST

Hi all,

 

I was using bsnl broadband via phone line with ADSL2 modem cum router Dlink DSL-2750U. now i recently switched to idea wifi.

its a PPPOE connection. they gave me an id and password which was used to create a connection via Ethernet port.

now i was trying to use my DLINK DSL-2750U to set up a wifi network using WLAN, but unfortunately it didn't work.

 

Could anyone please help me configuring device properly? 

 

Thanks in advance

 

Prateek Kaushal

Facebook Updates

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:07 AM PST

Facebook to give away one million 25-song music samplers on Apple iTunes
Online social networking website Facebook has announced that they would be giving away Ten million 25-song iTunes samplers under a new promotional offer in the United States.
Apple has gone into a deal with Facebook to offer this back-to-school promotion and more than 8.3 million [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/4127/one-million...music-samplers/

Tata Docomo Roaming

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:06 AM PST

Hello Friends,

I need some help and advice on a problem i am facing. I live in chandigarh but now for work purposes i have to go to delhi after every 10 days. I had vodafone but in chd 3g is not available. So, i opted for Tata docomo as it has good 3g plan and nice speed. I got 3g prepaid sim and paid 251 something for 1 Gb 3g data. When i moved to Delhi i was shocked to see that they don't have coverage and the data plans doesn't work. I mean i was charged for the data and i lost around 210 bucks. When contacted tata docomo they told me that its chargable but there was no proper answer and they told me that they can recharge my TD for 130 rs talktime as around 210 rs. Were gone frm my balance due to data usage. I was not aware of this so it really screwed my trip.
My first question is Why was i charged? I now know there is no TD in delhi but shouldn't they take care of that by payin the other networks which the phone catches in delhi. In my case it was Idea.
My second question is What is the best 3G operator in Chandigarh(pb) which is also good in roaming. I don't want Delhi sim because the base of my work changes to mumbai or kolkatta.

Please help and advice me on this.

Thank You,
Nitin

Asia Cup

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 08:41 AM PST

http://www.espncricinfo.com/asia-cup-2014/content/current/story/720907.html

 

I don't know why, but this comes as a good news to me. 

Is it safe to download form online torrents?

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 08:27 AM PST

Is it safe to download form online torrents?

 

I don't feel safe for my PC downloading from torrents.

It is safe?

 

If yes then which are best of all torrents.

Google Search Updates

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 07:34 AM PST

Starting individual threads...

Someone posted this on reddit showcasing the capabilities of Google Search. Impressive stuff.

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Airtel or Nextra

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 06:57 AM PST

Hey guys, I am from south Delhi thinking to switch to Nextra cuz its more economical then Airtel. I have been exteremly satisfied with Airtel services so far. Net is amazing. Zero downtime, constant ping. Can I expect the same from Nextra? I am currently on Airtel Rapid 80 under 20% discount offered by retention team last month. I'll call them again at end of this month to discontinue. I'll stick to them if they offer them true unlimited plan with at least bps speed. Any one aware if they currently have 2 or 4mbps retention plan if so what are there prices? Thanks! With atleast 2mbps speed* Sry for typo

Gmail account being accessed from a location based in Jaipur

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 06:35 AM PST

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What are the benefits of having a static ip?

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 06:31 AM PST

What are the benefits of using a static ip?

 

One being I can host a website and it remains accessible.

 

What are the problems?

Ani Broadband Delhi New Tarrif Plans

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 06:10 AM PST

Following are the new packages of Ani Broadband Delhi

 

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Source: http://www.aninetwork.in/index.php

 

They have tie ups with extreme peering, so on local cached torrents users will get speeds upto 10MBps and also on cached youtube videos with access to torbox.net. :)

Reliance thunder 1099 - 4 Mbps?

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 05:50 AM PST

So I was desperately looking for a cheap, fast internet connection when, I found this reliance plan which is-

Reliance Thunder 1099 - 4 Mbps [No FUP Limit]

So I wanted to know whether this plan is you know, any good? If anyone is already using it please tell me about it :)

 

Here's the link. http://www.rcom.co.in/Rcom/personal/internet/wired_postpaidplans.html

I cant see any SMS in my device

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 05:46 AM PST

Hello,

 

Just got a evdo device activated. BSNL office people gave me teracom t-U500 modem. I have installed the correct drivers and I'm able to connect to internet too.. The issue is I can't read the SMS which is arriving on the software.

 

Any help?

 

EDIT: It seems that I cannot receive and send national SMS, I do not know why. But I can send and receive local SMS.

Hathway Broadband launches Docsis 3.0 Ultra High speed network

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 04:14 AM PST

We are the first Company to launch a Docsis 3.0 network in the country," said Hathway Cable & Datacom MD & CEO Jagdish Kumar. "With our Docsis 3.0 network supplied by Cisco we are ready to deliver Ultra High Speed Broadband upto 50 Mbps to every retail customer in South Mumbai.

 

Hathway Docsis 3.0 plans start from monthly Rs 599 and go upto Rs 1499 for the 50 Mbps plan which offers 50 GB of download data.

 

Read more here: http://www.indiantelevision.com/digital/y2k13/oct/octdig15.php

The network is initially being deployed in South Mumbai and has been extensively tested. All existing and new customers of Hathway Broadband in South Mumbai can upgrade to the Docsis 3.0 plans. The customers will be provided a Docsis 3.0 Modem by Hathway which will be capable of supporting the ultra high speed plans. The company plans to rollout the Docsis 3.0 network in Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad during this fiscal.
 
The network is initially being deployed in South Mumbai and has been extensively tested. All existing and new customers of Hathway Broadband in South Mumbai can upgrade to the Docsis 3.0 plans. The customers will be provided a Docsis 3.0 Modem by Hathway which will be capable of supporting the ultra high speed plans. The company plans to rollout the Docsis 3.0 network in Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad during this fiscal.

 

http://www.smartinvestor.in/market/story-203249-storydet-Hathway_introduces_ultra_high_speed_internet_in_South_Mumbai.htm

You broadbad - worst service and speed

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 02:46 AM PST

I am using you broadband in wakad pune. My experience with you is very bad.
The speeds are never as per the plan you are on. On weekends, its almost unusable. The call center people take a lot of time to answer your calls. Many times i had hang up as no one was picking up the call.
My recent experience is worst. My net was down for more than a week. And the suport person arrived only after my recharge was expired and i refused to renew as the net was down (I received a lot of calls from them to renew). Reminding to renew is the only thing they are good at.
Please beware of you broadband.

Flipkart User Experiences

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 02:18 AM PST

I placed an order on 25/07/2010 for Reliance BIG TV DTH Hi-definition Advanced Digital Video Recorder thru letsbuy.com and an amount of Rs. 7990 debited to my Visa Credit Card. I have received a message from letsbuy saying that they cannot install it in my home in Kerala.

Dear Mr. Ali,

We request you to kindly provide us your alternate address as there is no service in your area. Kindly provide us the same so that we can dispatch as soon as possible.



--
Warm Regards,
Letsbuy Team
Landline: 011 - 47012012
Email: customercare@letsbuy.com
Visit us: Online Shopping India - Online Shopping with Best Deals on Mobiles, PDAs, Laptops, Digital Cameras, LCD & Accessories

Since I cannot install somewhere else, what would be the solution?

Gunday

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 02:02 AM PST

fnp coupons

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 02:01 AM PST

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I have found fnp coupons

Coupon code: FLOWERAN15

Get Flat 15% discount on any purchase.

Reliance Thunder 699 configure with Netgear N150 Classic Wireless Router

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PST

Hi guys, I wanted to ask that i just got my reliance braodband today but i use my PC for gaming i bought a N150 wireless classic router i want to use Wifi on my Android mobile and on PC i will use the router with wire no problem with that but my configure not working when i use it through router but when i directly connect Reliance RJ45 cable to PC it works but whenever i try to use it with router it don't work it but sometimes it works with router too so can someone help me configure it please i am really going crazy over this please help guys :) Thanks in Advance

Gog.com: Weekend Promo - March Gaming Medley

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:10 AM PST

GOG.com
 

Stronghold Crusader Hd
Stronghold Hd
Space Colony Hd
Empire Earth: Gold Edition
Empire Earth 2 Gold Edition
Empire Earth 3
Evil Genius
Lords Of The Realm: Royal Edition
Lords Of The Realm 3
Lords Of Magic: Special Edition
Bloodrayne
Bloodrayne 2
Ground Control + Expansion
Ground Control 2: Operation Exodus Se
Rogue Trooper
Pinball Gold Pack
Advent Rising
Sniper Elite: Berlin 1945
Moonbase Commander
Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs Death

Motorola Moto X

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:08 AM PST

Infibeam Magic Box Offers

Posted: 08 Mar 2014 12:02 AM PST

Mirai communications, New network

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:58 PM PST

I heard about this cable network 1 week before in bangalore :) and even my LCO has taken line for this...Kindly check this

 

website http://setech.in/services.html  and let me how is the network and channels..If ANY ONE USING IT..I guess it

 

 

called as  E DIGITAL network...any opinions ?

Rio 2

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:54 PM PST

 

Blu, Jewel and their three kids living the perfect domesticated life in the magical city that is Rio de Janeiro. When Jewel decides the kids need to learn to live like real birds, she insists the family venture into the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in with his new neighbors, he worries he may lose Jewel and the kids to the call of the wild.

 

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:52 PM PST

Production starts early next year. Release date set in May 2014
Jamie Foxx as Electro?


Jamie Foxx As Electro In Amazing Spider-Man 2? ENTV - YouTube

NEW SPIDERMAN VILLAIN?! CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN MOVIE!! - YouTube

iShop International Deals & Discount Coupons

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:51 PM PST

Till March 31. 

 

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The Voice

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:50 PM PST

FIFA World Cup 2014

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:49 PM PST

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:48 PM PST

Best of The Onion

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:43 PM PST

Orphan Black

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:42 PM PST

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The show follows Sarah (Tatiana Maslany), an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks just like her.

Sarah takes on her identity, her boyfriend Paul (Dylan Bruce) and her money. But instead of solving her problems, she makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are actually clones.

She finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy and racing to find answers.

Marvel's Avengers Assemble

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:42 PM PST