BSNL EXTENDS WORK FROM HOME BROADBAND PLAN AVAILABILITY TILL MAY 19

BSNL has extended its Work From Home broadband plan. The information comes through a circular posted by the BSNL Chennai team. The Work From Home plan gives 5GB data per day at 10Mbps after which the speed drops to 1Mbps. The plan first came into effect when the lockdown began in India and people started working from home. For most, working from home meant more data consumption and this plan from BSNL helped those that needed a decent internet connection to get work done. We are currently in lockdown 4.0 in India and even though some have started going to the office, most are still working from home.

According to the circular, the plan “will be available on promotional basis till 20.06.2020 for existing BSNL’s landline (i.e. not having Broadband) customers only. However, the facility of this plan will be available for one month from date of activation”.

This means that the pan is available till 20 June 2020, and those that access it will have access to it for one month from the date of activation after which they will be migrated to the regular plan. 

HOW TO SET-UP BSNL WORK FROM HOME PLAN 

The circular goes on to say, “Installation Charges & Security charges shall be waived off during promotional period. Customer premise equipment (CPE)/Modem shall be customer-owned. After expiry of the promotional period, existing customers under the above plan shall be migrated to regular Broadband plans.”

This means that users do not have to pay any installation charges or security deposit. However, they will need to have their own modem to use the service to access the internet. This means that the scheme is a plug and play solution for existing BSNL subscribers and after one month of using the Work From Home plan, users will be migrated to a regular plan. If you are looking for a plan with unlimited data, we’ve got you covered here. 

In other BSNL news, the service provider has made some changes to the Rs 699 plan giving users 180 days validity instead of the previous 160 days validity. The plan comes with 250 minutes of calling per day along with 100 free SMS limit per day and 0.5GB of data limit per day. BSNL has also released a plan priced at Rs 2399 and brings with it 600 days validity. That’s the longest validity we have seen in a plan.

For those that are on the BSNL mobile network and need more data, they can check out the BSNL prepaid plans priced at Rs 693 and Rs 1,212 that offer data only and no voice calls or SMS services. Remember, the two plans are available in select regions only. The Rs 693 plan brings 300GB of data while the Rs 1,212 plan brings 500GB of data, both with a 365 days validity. You can read more about these plans here. 

If you are one that needs more speed than data, then you may want to take a look at Airtel’s 1Gbps connections. Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal said that the company is ready to provide 1Gbps connections to those that need it to work from home. He goes on to say that despite the lockdown, the company will do its best to arrange for installation as soon as possible. You can read more about it here. 

With the Coronavirus forcing people to stay indoors. It is hard for telecom operators to add new customers. Reports suggest that Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea have added a mere 500,000 new customers in March. To put things into perspective, in any other month, this number would have been 2.5- 3 million.