On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeeptob@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Pankaj Jangid pankaj.jangid@gmail.com wrote:
Reliance and Tata Indicom have now come out with USB modems that provide broadband speeds theoretically upto 3.1 Mbps in major cities with National low speed roaming in other areas. A client of mine told me that his friend uses a Reliance one and clocked upto 1.5 Mbps on it.
Do you have links to these plans? Thanks in advance.
I am thinking of subscribing to one of these plans: http://www.rcom.co.in/Communications/rcom/RNetconnect/netconnect_broadband_t...
The reliance guy had called up and asked if I would like to see a demo before purchase. I was surprized to hear such words from a Reliance customer care. The last time I had a reliance connection was 4 years back and their customer care was pathetic that time.
So I have this Tata Indicom Data card since 2006. Works great. Have used it at various places - from dusty Panvel to streets of Delhi to lanes of Kharagpur to beautiful campus of NIT Durgapur/Calicut. That is the end of happy story.
I called up the Tata Indicom to enquire if there a upgrade path for old users/customers to somehow move to these super fast new USB devices and plans also known as "Photon". They said nopes, the only way is to chuck the old one ( no refunds of course ) and buy a new connection from scratch, thusly pay installation fees of INR 3500 for the new device or such. The dude told me to contact the Nodal Officer Sugna Shetty ( 022 65102309 ) if I wanted to complain about this.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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FYI, Tata Indicom CDMA USB modem (the post Photon version) is totally useless in sector 14 Vashi where I stay now.
Tata Indicom support staff (Vashi) tell me "Sector 14 mein 'feasibility' nahi hai saar".
From day one, Tata Indicom has been giving me huge packet losses in
Mankhurd ( 70% to 90%).
I feel cheated by Tata Indicom's wireless internet service and would not recommend it to any user.
Regards,