[PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

[Nishit Dave]

On 4/27/07, Desi Penguin <desipenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had read the announcement of BSNL providing broadband in early 2004. I'm
> still waiting :) I know, few people (30,000) in Pune have BSNL provided
> broadband, but compared to Pune's population, what % is that ?
> We also read about (and by now forgotten) BSNL providing "triple play"
> service.

I had applied for it as soon as it was launched - I registered five
times through the net and phone, but to no avail.  The BSNL call
centre people now ask you to rather do a paper application, because
they know that other modes will not be followed up. Finally, I had to
submit a paper application, and do some hard follow-up with the local
exchange, after which they did the connection (post feasibility-study)
pretty quickly.  You still have to improvise and jump through some
hoops to get the connection, though.

So, I used the new connection for about a month, and then got
transferred to Mumbai.  I will now try for an MTNL connection.

The moral of the story is: you can't win, you can't break even, you
cannot even quit the game.