[ILUG-BOM] [OT] New Wireless Broadband USB Modems.

[Vivek Varghese Cherian]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya
<pradeeptob at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid at 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_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
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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".