BSNL offers freebies for new broadband supplieres

Public sector telco, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the largest broadband service provider in the country has announced a number of free offerings for all new broadband customers who apply for landline based broadband connection upto 31 March 2010.

Freebies include free installation, free broadband usage for first 15 days at speeds upto 2 Mbps, free music and video on demand, free games on demand and free web conferencing services for two months. This will provide an opportunity to customers to experience surfing, watching fast moving games like cricket through streaming, playing interactive games and enjoying music and video of their choice on demand from a large library of contents completely free.

Further to enable its existing landline broadband customers to get higher speeds and enjoy fast moving virtually live games like cricket, it has doubled the speed for all its customers who have unlimited home usage plans, with speeds in the bracket ranging from 256 Kbps to 1 Mbps without any extra charge upto 26th April 2010.

BSNL has also released several new tariff plans, both for limited and unlimited usage, customised for different segments like home, enterprise, offices, business, institutions etc.

The telco says that it is is now offering the highest broadband speed upto 24 Mbps on wireline broadband through VDSL technology. "New tariff packages have unique combinations of free download, free calls and speed to meet requirements of everybody," it said in a statement.

For corporates it is offeering a unique broadband virtual private network (BBVPN), with details available on its website.