BSNL EVDO CLUB

Coverage Details of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat & Rajkot

Gigacore — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:38:35 +0000

We got some information from one of forum membr, Hitesh regarding the area coverage details of the cities mentioned in the title. The coverage areas are the places where BSNL EVDO network is present. This will surely help people in those cities who are planning to buy one.

All the credit goes to Hitesh, for creating a dedicated thread to help you people.

Click here to read the details about coverage details.

Want to report coverage area ? Register in our forum for free and create a thread in Coverage Section.

And Finally, 1000 Members!

Gigacore — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:05:50 +0000

I am glad to announce that our forum has finally got 1000 registered members as of today (09/08/08).

I hereby thank all the registered members who are responsible to reach this milestone. The forum is now much lively and active.

BSNL EVDO CLUB Forum is now driven by its own community with 1000 members and has got different user groups. Which enables quick replies and responses to all your queries regarding BSNL EVDO.

So, why wait ?

Join the India’s Largest and Fastest growing BSNL EVDO Community Today for free!

BSNL EVDO now available in Ahmedabad, Patna and few other cities.

Gigacore — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:24:13 +0000

As we said earlier, that BSNL is improving this internet service all across the country and covering more cities, now they have EVDO internet services in few major cities.

So here are the new additions:

Ahmedabad
Patna
Kilvelur - TN
Nachiyarkoil - TN
Karaikal - Puducherry U.T
Vasundhra
Vaishali Region of Ghaziabad

All credit goes to our forum members who updated us in this thread. And we have updated the coverage list so have look at the coverage now.

Please revise the coverage list, and if your city has EVDO, please register in our forum for free & let us know by posting in this thread.

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On-Rental or On-Purchase ?

Gigacore — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:28:57 +0000

As most of you know, there are two options to choose before you purchase the device. One is ”On-Rental” and the another is “On-Purchase”. To know more about the price difference, see this page.

If you choose “On-Rental”, then you will pay little extra every month and if you opt to purchase the device at the beginning, i.e “On-Purchase”, then you will pay low bill every month.

So which plan is best for you? If you are big on pocket, you will go for “On-Purchase”, if not you will go for “On-Rental”. But there is something that you will have to keep in mind. On-Purchase will give you the limited warranty, but whereas On-Rental will give you unlimited warranty. So what’s the advantage?

I’ll explain you in brief. Think; if you bought the device at beginning for 3,500 Rs, the device is all yours and you will pay no extra cost every month expect the regular fee. You will get warranty for a year or two. And if something goes wrong and your device is not functioning after the warranty period, then you will have to pay for repair charges, if the device cannot be repaired, you will have to dig up your pocket and purchase the device once again!

But whereas if you choose to go for “On-Rental”, you will pay little extra, and the advantage is, you will get the device repaired of replaced if something goes wrong whenever or for repeated number of time with no cost!

If you are thinking how I came to know about this, then I have the answer for you.

Recently, my device was not able to connect to the internet, after few days I took the device to the exchange and reported the problem. They asked me for my number, after giving my number, they checked online for the type of option that I have chosen. Hopefully, I’m “On-Rental”, and they said since your device is on rental, we will fix the problem and will give the device tomorrow. And I went to exchange on the next day, I got my device repaired for no charges.

I just asked them about what if I got this device for “On-Purchase” and they said it will repaired for free only when its under warranty!

I also read a post from some member in the forum (don’t remember the name), which says about similar consequence. But I experienced it.

So the verdict is, pay little extra every month and choose “On-Rental”, instead of buying the device at once and making your pocket cry when it goes boom!

BSNL EVDO Coverage in Chennai

Gigacore — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:55:36 +0000

Well, after publishing the EVDO Coverage Details in Bangalore, many people has requested us to provide coverage details in other cities as well. Among them chennai people were the most who demanded us for the information.

And now the good news is, BSNL has officially published a page, which has the coverage details along with the most-likely speeds you will receive in respected areas.

Click here to read the official news about the BSNL EVDO in chennai and click here for the coverage details.

Thanks to our forum moderator subash for the heads up. To discuss about this post login or register in our forum for free and use this thread.

Using BSNL EVDO in MAC

Gigacore — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:00:43 +0000

Finally, now even MAC users can enjoy the wireless freedom of BSNL EVDO on their Macintosh Computers. Right from the beginning, we saw MAC users asking if they can use it on their MAC OS, but we unfortunately didn’t knew the exact procedures to configure BSNL EVDO in it.

But now our forum member and moderator, veagles has found himself that BSNL EVDO can be configured and used in MAC OS without any glitch. He has written a tutorial in our forum on how to configure ZTE AC8700 BSNL EVDO in MAC and has shared with us. So all credit goes to him. Though the configuration is bit complicated, but he has explained each and every steps in detail, so you don’t have to think much.

Click here to read the tutorial on how to configure and use BSNL EVDO in MAC. If you have any doubts and want any further assistance, you may register in our forum for free and reply to him in that thread. And also use the same thread to discuss anything related to the tutorial.

BSNL EVDO To Be Available in Chennai only in Outer Peripheral Areas

coolpcguy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:37:28 +0000

BSNL Chennai’s website may claim that EVDO connections are available, but the reality is that they’re offering connections only in outer peripheral areas. Sad as it may be but the news is true. I’d paid a visit to the Greames Road exchange in Chennai to apply for a EVDO connection. Initially I was thrilled to see the EVDO device infront of me, all my excitement died when I was informed that there’s no CDMA tower in Triplicane, nor there is one in city. I was told that at the moment, BSNL is focussing on EVDO connections(in Chennai, atleast) only in areas where standard wired connectivity is not possible - areas like Perungudy, OMR, Velachery etc. On asking whether any CDMA towers will be setup anytime soon, I was met with blank faces. Have to say, this isn’t the best of moves BSNL is making. There is immense response and demand to BSNL’s EVDO service and BSNL isn’t doing justice to their Chennai customers. As usual, We at BSNL EVDO Club will keep you guys updated with the latest information as and when it happens.

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BSNL EVDO Coverage Details in Bangalore.

Gigacore — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:40:56 +0000

A good news for BSNL EVDO Users in Bangalore and as well as people who are planning to buy BSNL EVDO in Bangalore. We believe that, this will be more helpful for people who are still planning to buy the BSNL EVDO device in Bangalore.

The information you are about to read in this post is gathered officially from BSNL Officer.

According to the official report, BSNL EVDO Coverage has been extended to whole of Bangalore. And the number of BSNL EVDO Towers in Bangalore is extended to 43 out of which 38 has been already established. And other remaining will be established in few weeks. We came to know that 1 tower requires almost a week or more to be completed. Technically, a tower is called as BTS or Base Transceiver Station. To know more about BTS, click here to read the wikipedia article. One BSNL EVDO BTS is capable of transmitting single over 5 - 8 kilometer in Radius. And meanwhile, few areas in Bangalore, where the Installation is still under progress may affect browsing speeds and connection stability for 1 - 2 Hours daily for a week.

And yet another good news is that the 4 Southern States, namely Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh and Kerala will be connected to much more efficient server which is located in Bangalore. There are hopes that this powerful server will break the bottle-neck and improve the data transfer speeds.

Coming back to BTS in Bangalore, we have also received the locations of BSNL EVDO Towers in Bangalore, which are already established (38 BTS). We will list down only the major areas, because as it is known that 1 BTS is able to transmit signal over 5 - 8 KM in radius:

The major areas are:

Sandhya Lodge, Near Majestic.
Sona Towers, Near Indian Express.
City Exchange, Near Market.
Malleshwaram Exchange.
Kormangala Exchange.
BTM Layout Exchange.
RT Nagar Exchange.
Kengeri.
K.R Puram Exchange.
Electronic City.
Padmanabanagar.
Yelahanka.
SanjayNagar Exchange.
Peenya Exchange, Jalahalli Cross.
HSR Layout Exchange.
Mysore Road Exchange.
Vijaynagar Exchange.
Yeshwanthpur Exchange.
Kumaraswamy Layout.
T John college

If you want the exact location which is not listed in this post, you can consider registering in our forum for free and tell us the area you live in and the major areas around you, then we will tell the nearest exchange to you. To do that, post your query in this thread (after free registration).

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BSNL EVDO Now Available In Jharkhand

Gigacore — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:04:22 +0000

We are glad to announce that BSNL has finally started EVDO Network coverage in most parts of Jharkhand. It is still not officially confirmed, though as per an update from one of our forum member harshal, BSNL EVDO network is now available in Ranchi , Jamshedpur , Bokaro and Dhanbad. We would like to thank harshal for notifying us in this thread.

We will update this post with official source when we manage to get the information from BSNL’s Website. So stay tuned.

BSNL EVDO Enabled Cities in India

Gigacore — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:05:28 +0000

Since BSNL’s EVDO is still in beta stages, the EVDO coverage across the country is very much minimum. But CDMA 1x is available in almost all the parts of India since it is relatively old network technology. In order to establish EVDO network, BSNL has to make changes to the network architecture in the respected cities by upgrading the instruments/equipments and towers to broadcast EVDO signal/network.

We’ll list down the BSNL EVDO enabled cities across India from the information we have got from this thread in the forum . And thanks to our fellow forum member veagles for volunteering the thread.

So, the BSNL EVDO enabled cities in India goes like this:

Alleppy
Ahmedabad
Anantapur
Bangalore
Bhopal
Bhubaneswar
Bokaro
Calicut
Cochin
Coimbatore
Dhanbad
Ernakulam
Erode
Indrapuram
Jaipur
Jamshedpur
Kanchipuram
Kaushambi
Kerala (Most Towns)
Karaikal - Kerala
Kilvelur - TN
Kottayam
Kurnool
Lucknow
Malapuram
Nachiyarkoil - TN
Pathanamthitta
Patna
Puducherry UT - Karaikal
Rajkot
Ranchi
Surat
Tirunelveli - Palayamkottai Exchg
Trichur
Trivandrum
Vadadora
Vasundhra
Vaishali Region of Ghaziabad

Stay tuned and we will be updating this post and will add new cities whenever we get updates from our members in the forum.

And since this post gets disappeared from the homepage after few days by the addition of new posts, you may bookmark this post, so it keeps you updated and will have less chances of missing this post.

If your city is EVDO Enabled and if it is not listed in here, please let us know and we will add it in the list so it helps others. To report BSNL EVDO Enabled cities in India, you may register in our forum for free and update us by posting in this thread.

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Last Update: 25/07/08 at 09:42 AM

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