Want a new MTNL 3G connection in Delhi

hey guys,i live in kerala and i can say.. BSNL 3g rocks.. !! with having signals even in the deepest of my home where no network used to reach and bsnl 3g showing signal at full strength .. haha... well this aint for what am posting herei have a friend in Delhi, who wants to have a 3g sim but there it is available only by mtnl so i wanna know what are the tariff and in bsnl i see on net std call rates.. does that on net includes mtnl too coz they are sister companies i guess !! but when my friend went to a mtnl office in his area they said him that they need mtnl handset for receiving 3g services from mtnl ? i said are you kidding me mtnl aint a cdma company .. 3g is only for individual mobile.. and for cdma like service they call wcdma and all.. and he had no idea.. so i wanna ask is that doesnt mtnl provide 3g service without their own handsets pls reply asapAmit

hey guys,
i live in kerala and i can say.. BSNL 3g rocks.. !! with having signals even in the deepest of my home where no network used to reach and bsnl 3g showing signal at full strength .. haha... well this aint for what am posting here
i have a friend in Delhi, who wants to have a 3g sim but there it is available only by mtnl so i wanna know what are the tariff and in bsnl i see on net std call rates.. does that on net includes mtnl too coz they are sister companies i guess !!
but when my friend went to a mtnl office in his area they said him that they need mtnl handset for receiving 3g services from mtnl ? i said are you kidding me mtnl aint a cdma company .. 3g is only for individual mobile.. and for cdma like service they call wcdma and all.. and he had no idea.. so i wanna ask is that doesnt mtnl provide 3g service without their own handsets pls reply asap
Amit

Man you are really, really confused. And from the amount of misinformation you have been given, I can see why.

MTNL has their 3G service called Jadoo. All your friend should need to do is ensure he/she has a 3G capable handset and buy the SIM card.

A word of warning: many handsets sold in India are NOT 3G, otherwise the phone will operate at 2G speeds until your friend gets a suitable phone - most 3G phones seem to start at around Rs7000 or 8000 (Nokia), but of course this varies by brand and whatnot, I'm quite sure there are cheaper 3G phones around.

3G is the term applied by most providers to a technology which is abbreviated technically as WCDMA, but this is actually a follow-on from GSM technology, not from CDMA1x or CDMA2000 technology; so "normal" handsets will work - older style Tata (and Spice and Virgin?) and Reliance handsets will not work. There is a table on Wikipedia that might clear it up, but it's not necessary for now.

On-net minutes are only between MTNL users, NOT BSNL: MTNL Delhi, MTNL Mumbai and BSNL are separate companies in many ways, so even then, on-net probably only means on-net in the Delhi circle, so I think not between MTNL Delhi and MTNL Mumbai users. The 3G Jadoo tariffs for Delhi are here Dolphin

Anyway, it might be best for your friend to actually wait a couple of months until Airtel, Vodafone and whoever won the Delhi circles to begin their offerings in Delhi: if your friend is already on one of these networks, they might not even have to change the phone number (maybe).

Man you are really, really confused. And from the amount of misinformation you have been given, I can see why.

MTNL has their 3G service called Jadoo. All your friend should need to do is ensure he/she has a 3G capable handset and buy the SIM card.

A word of warning: many handsets sold in India are NOT 3G, otherwise the phone will operate at 2G speeds until your friend gets a suitable phone - most 3G phones seem to start at around Rs7000 or 8000 (Nokia), but of course this varies by brand and whatnot, I'm quite sure there are cheaper 3G phones around.

3G is the term applied by most providers to a technology which is abbreviated technically as WCDMA, but this is actually a follow-on from GSM technology, not from CDMA1x or CDMA2000 technology; so "normal" handsets will work - older style Tata (and Spice and Virgin?) and Reliance handsets will not work. There is a table on Wikipedia that might clear it up, but it's not necessary for now.

On-net minutes are only between MTNL users, NOT BSNL: MTNL Delhi, MTNL Mumbai and BSNL are separate companies in many ways, so even then, on-net probably only means on-net in the Delhi circle, so I think not between MTNL Delhi and MTNL Mumbai users. The 3G Jadoo tariffs for Delhi are here Dolphin

Anyway, it might be best for your friend to actually wait a couple of months until Airtel, Vodafone and whoever won the Delhi circles to begin their offerings in Delhi: if your friend is already on one of these networks, they might not even have to change the phone number (maybe).

hey mg.. thnx for replying... i meant for std on net calls from bsnl kerala to mtnl delhi.. and i can understand, they dont include mtnl in that
and my friend has got samsung star 3g with him, and well he's aircel user !! i might have gone for docomo 3g but in delhi docomo hasnt hasnt got any spectrum ! so only left for him is mtnl , "when he went to mtnl office in somewhere south delhi, the officers or staff would say he wud need handset brought from mtnl" it freaked me out !! i know mtnl is not handset based provider like tata indicom or reliance cdma.. it does provide blackberry but i think its not sim dependent !!
anyways thnx for giving ur time !😱hyea:

Same same. BSNL and MTNL are not the same company, even if they are both government enterprises. On-net usually means within the same circle, but since they serve in different circles I don't think on-net would ever include BSNL-MTNL calls or vice versa.