CDMA / EVDO roaming plans of BSNL.

[mmmishea]

Well every body is waiting of EVDO Roaming facility to begin. One of my friend who is Working as junior telecom officers at BSNL told me BSNL is undergoing some meetings for cdma and evdo , which is finally going to result in nation wide roaming.
Further he explained that currently the Tarang network is of limited mobility type, that is mobility for more than 20 km from the point of installation is not allowed( theoretical). Hence all tarang cells and even data cards (nic and evdo both) have the phone number series of 7 nos starting from 2. eg 2001296.

Now what bsnl is planning is the conversion of this limited mobility survice to a full fledged mobile network such as tataindicom cdma or reliance cdma.
Then our numbers will change from 2seriers to 9** series with a 10 digit no.
The same thing happned about 3-4 years back with tataindicom coustomers and about 5 -6 years back with reliance coustomers. All of them previously started their services with limited mobility and then gave the full mobility after permission from tri.(reliance used to provide roaming even in the limited mobility period, and for that if u remembered tri imposed fine on it too!)

[Gigacore]

that will be welcome move by many professionals who roam now and then... I hope they wont charge extra bucks for that...

[freezer]

By what time will the roaming will start

[mmmishea]

Only BSNL and GOD can tell that.. Hahaha

[sameet]

(23-11-2008 12:16 AM)mmmishea Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register in our forum for free by clicking here to see links.Only BSNL and GOD can tell that.. Hahaha

Recently my friend had taken my EVDO device to another city. I am based in Pune, he had taken it to Kalyan-Dombivali (different district, same state). Under the assumption that it is a sort of WLL service, I would have expected it to not to work there. However, it apparently worked!! So some sort of roaming seems to be there. I am going to try and use my device in Nagpur next month. I should be able to tell it with more authority then.

Regards

[jameandrew]

inter state roaming is available

[pp2105]

will the usage cost change after roaming is enabled?? And by what date will roaming be activated??

[karthikmohan83]

Hi All, I am from Bangalore and I just got the roaming facility activated for my EVDO service,

I placed a request at BSNL office yesterday and requested for national roaming, they provided me with the 10 digit number and the service got activated this afternoon.

I will be travelling to HYD soon so will keep you posted if I am able to connect. I am not sure if they have only activated South India Roaming only or National, but will keep you'll posted as and when I travel.

There is no hike in price for roaming as per the update that I received, just that as an existing customer I am still being billed 550/- a month and from next month it would be charged at 650/- pm

[jameandrew]

@karthikmohan83
Thanks for the update.South india roaming is already enabled and it works very well with 7 digit number.if they have given 10 digit number then i think they mite have enabled the national roaming.

[karthikmohan83]

(15-12-2009 06:41 PM)jameandrew Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register in our forum for free by clicking here to see links.@karthikmohan83
Thanks for the update.South india roaming is already enabled and it works very well with 7 digit number.if they have given 10 digit number then i think they mite have enabled the national roaming.

Thanks for the update, thought that was the case, however in my recent travel down south, I did not get the time to check roaming when I had the 8 digit number.. so was not sure.