BSNL starts fibre-to-the-home broadband services in Vadodara

After a month-long trial, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Friday launched the Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) technology in Vadodara. The new technology is expected to deliver high-speed broadband access without facing any technical problems and at considerably cheaper rates. Ramakant Sharma, General Manager of BSNL, Vadodara Circle, said the network has been built on the Gigabyte Passive Optical Technology (GPON) concept which will have the down-link speed of 2.5 Gbps and up-link speed of 1.25 Gbps.

“The single optical fibre will cater to 32 customers with high speed bandwidth. Now, BSNL will offer high speed broadband access up to 100 Mbps with facilities of multi-channel IPTV, video/audio on demand, interactive gaming, conferencing, high-speed lease line, voice services by using this technology,” he said.

He also added that the network is very useful technology to meet demands of new developing commercial and residential areas, corporate bulk demands. It is the latest technology and offers replacement to existing copper network with better reliability and high speed data transmission. When asked about the success of BSNL 3G services, Sharma said: “After we launched the services in July, we have given 3,500 new connections and converted more than 4,000 2G connections into 3G connections.”

Source: BSNL starts fibre-to-the-home broadband services in Vadodara

This is a good move by BSNL.... and well appreciated ... but i think its idotic.. BSNL have been running so called pathetic unlimited plans and they are not even able to provide full 24mbits on a ADSL2+ line uncapped at decent rates... what is the use of spending millions of ruppees a kilometer putting a GPON network?! i mean to say it is totally illogical to upgrade network technology where there is no need... BSNL should try and focus on giving decent broadband services on the current existing copper lines and upgrade later when the need arises...otherwise it is just digging its own grave. And personally i find it pretty sad to use a plan with 100mbits speed for 10k INR a month and a download limit of 200~500GB

^ Rightly said.They should first of all saturate the existing network of copper lines and then they should hop on to the next fibre.By now they should have come up with unlimited 8Mbps plans to the least.This thing looks like a farce and show of strength with no real purpose at ground level.

I'm pretty happy about it. Vadodara not that expensive of a place to deploy, so good for them. I just hope that the network is open so that we don't have to overbuild.

yea its good for hayai mg... but for BSNL as a whole dont you think its a waste of money? !

yea its good for hayai mg... but for BSNL as a whole dont you think its a waste of money? !

Correction: it's good for Hayai *if* the fiber network is open for everyone to use. Their copper is not, so... hard to say right now.

It is still stuck in 512Kbps unlimited. Wow now it may introduce 512kbps fibre optic unlimited broadband 😀

It is still stuck in 512Kbps unlimited. Wow

now it may introduce 512kbps fibre optic unlimited broadband 😀

Is it? Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

Smallest speed on standard FTTH plans is 1mbit/s, or if you want to pay 1 lakh per month you can get 100mbit/s (it seems that they really are assuming you're going to use 10Tbyte/s of data!) Judging by the prices they really are just charging for estimated data usages of 300, 400, 1200 up to 9000GB per month. Unreal.

Watch as there is slow adoption and then they say "oh, but it failed because there was no one willing to pay for it - clearly India does not want faster broadband/FTTH". Sigh.

BSNL should rather focus on improving their current ADSL broadband service. They must improve on providing speeds as per plan. Their current technical staff cannot resolve ADSL issues. Imagine how will they solve issues related to fibre optics? They have to upgrade their skills.They should also provide true unlimited plans as some one else suggested.

BSNL should rather focus on improving their current ADSL broadband service. They must improve on providing speeds as per plan. Their current technical staff cannot resolve ADSL issues. Imagine how will they solve issues related to fibre optics? They have to upgrade their skills.
They should also provide true unlimited plans as some one else suggested.

Fibre and ADSL require roughly the same amount of skills, just different. I'm sure they've got a separate set of trained people to deal with their Fibre as well as their ADSL.

As a business person, I don't really agree with true unlimited plans. As a consumer, I totally do. The problem for BSNL will be overheads.

Fibre and ADSL require roughly the same amount of skills, just different. I'm sure they've got a separate set of trained people to deal with their Fibre as well as their ADSL.

As a business person, I don't really agree with true unlimited plans. As a consumer, I totally do. The problem for BSNL will be overheads.

I quite agree with you about unlimited plans. But regarding skills i donot.
I am facing poor broadband speeds with BSNL 4Mbps plan. I have raised multiple complaints but no one from BSNL exchange, NOC, NIB is sure what the problem is. Do you really think bsnl has capable technical staff who can resolve issues in lets say 1 week?
I doubt. If they are not capable of resolving issues in ADSL n/w, do you think they are capable of resolving issues in OFC based n/w ? 😀
More over they dont have proper customer support system and people. Their support executives disconnect calls when they are not aware of what to reply 😡 that too after making you wait for 10min to talk to them.

I quite agree with you about unlimited plans. But regarding skills i donot.
I am facing poor broadband speeds with BSNL 4Mbps plan. I have raised multiple complaints but no one from BSNL exchange, NOC, NIB is sure what the problem is. Do you really think bsnl has capable technical staff who can resolve issues in lets say 1 week? I doubt. If they are not capable of resolving issues in ADSL n/w, do you think they are capable of resolving issues in OFC based n/w ? 😀


I didn't say capable, I said separate. The fact is, they should have engineers for the DSL network as well as the Fiber network. They may be capable, they may also be completely incompetent - that's not for me to say.

More over they dont have proper customer support system and people. Their support executives disconnect calls when they are not aware of what to reply 😡 that too after making you wait for 10min to talk to them.

From complaints I've seen around, this seems to be a BSNL problem in general, whether it's for phone, broadband or whatever.

mgcarley.You are absolutely right. I must say they are incompetent. Out of frustration i said they are not capable. Because of some incompetent staff, whole company may get a bad name.I have heard lot of good things about hayai. Are you going to provide services in Bangalore, Karnataka?

mgcarley.
You are absolutely right. I must say they are incompetent. Out of frustration i said they are not capable. Because of some incompetent staff, whole company may get a bad name.
I have heard lot of good things about hayai. Are you going to provide services in Bangalore, Karnataka?

Once we have launched and all, yes, we will expand to all other major centres in India (and many minor ones too).