On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Pankaj Jangid <[email protected]> > 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_tariff.html >> >> 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 > -- > The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org > KDE India : http://www.kde.in > Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >
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, -- Vivek Varghese Cherian Website : http://vivekvc.freeshell.org Blog: http://vivekvc.wordpress.com IRC: Vivek and ViveKVC on both Freenode and OFTC GPG Key fingerprint: 0F53 447E A8D1 C4F7 C14E F117 A040 E935 7DFA D159 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
