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It seems that War between Indian Telecom operators is gradually gearing up. After Reliance Jio, BSNL is likely to offer BSNL Lifetime Free Voice Calls starting from Google 1st Jan 2017.

As per the information expressed by Anupam Shrivastava, Chairman BSNL, the state-owned telecom company will offer Free Voice Calls to all of its subscribers and also offer more competitive prices regarding data tariff compared to Reliance Jio.

As per the data plans announced by Reliance Jio, one needs to recharge minimum with Rs. 149, but BSNL is going to offer at least Rs. two to four lesser priced plans to its customers starting from Jan 2017.

If we analyze practically, if BSNL starts offering Free Voice Calls, more people will benefit with the company compared to Reliance Jio, because Reliance Jio is only limited to 4G supported cities and 4G enabled consumers whereas BSNL can offer free voice calls to all of those who are using 2G, 3G and 4G networks.

Whatever the strategies Telecom companies are planning to implement, definitely it is a welcoming move for Indian telecom industry. The country has to move beyond from voice-enabled services to data-centric services as early as possible. Then only benefits of technology can help masses living in roots of the country.

BSNL always offer all of its innovative plans to its broadband connection holders. The company follows this strategy to expand its broadband user base. So to get the unlimited voice calls from BSNL everybody needs to get BSNL broadband connection and the company route the voice traffic through that broadband.

BSNL announced another new package named BSNL Broadband Combo that offers 2 Mbps unlimited data and round the clock free calling facility that applicable to all the telecom circles in India.

The attractive factor in the plan is there is no FUP (Fair Usage Policy)  in the plan, you can enjoy 2 Mbps flat speed for any volume of downloads.

The plan is named as BBG Combo ULD 1199 and as the name says it is charged at Rs. 1,199 per month. The plan is applicable to all the and existing customers of BSNL.

As the part of the plan you can make free unlimited calls to any number within India. For the users of the plan BSNL offers one email ID with 1 GB storage space, if you want static IP for any reason, then you need to pay Rs. 2000 per year.

BBG Combo ULD 1199 is especially useful those who lives in rural areas where other private broadband players are not available.

A lot of buzz circulating with the name BSNL 1GB 1 Rs package on social media. But nobody capable of thinking about the practical usage of the plan.

With the latest plan BSNL BB 249 BSNL offering 300 GB of data just for Rs. 249 only. If there are no limitations BB 249 is the excellent plan. But while announcing the plan BSNL didn’t mention the download speed it offers. But the BSNL website clearly said the hidden restrictions of this plan.

BSNL BB249 Limitations

Even though you are getting 300 GB data benefit with the plan, the download speed is pathetic in the present scenario. In the 300 GB usage, your download speed is up to 2 Mbps for the first 1 GB data usage, later for the remaining 299 GB, you must adjust with 1 Mbps, worst speed that we used in a decade back.

So practically how it is worth to consider the plan? Now with Reliance Jio one can comfortably achieve download speeds up to 35 Mbps on the move? How can BSNL compete Reliance by playing tricks?

Not only BSNL a few days back Airtel came up with yearly data cutter plans, the consumer knows the hidden costs behind those plans. The consumer was already vexed up with the tricks played by the telecom operators. Now they moved to the time of transparency.