Has anybody tried RailWire ? AT present available only in B'lore that too in a limited region but their Plans seems to be promising ?

Home Access: Unlimited plan

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Plan No  ..............   Port Speed* ...... Plan Rental** (In Rupee) iRW002  ..............   256 Kbps  ......   320 iRW004  ..............   512 Kbps  ......   620 iRW006  ..............   1 Mbps ...........  920 iRW008  ..............   2 Mbps ........... 1220 iRW010  ..............   4 Mbps ........... 2120 iRW012  ..............   8 Mbps ........... 3620 iRW014  ..............  16 Mbps .........  6920 iRW016  ..............  32 Mbps.........  13520

Also check theHome Access: Usage based plans

You missed the main part .
All the speed mentioned are at port speed.
And if you look at the bottom of the page it says

*Port speeds are on 1:4 contention ratio

one of my friend who has a small company in bangalore has taken their 32mbps unlimited plan and during high traffic hours he is getting 25mbps so thats pretty cool

All ADSL ISPs have contention.

Isn't it 1:20 for BSNL home plans? 1:4 sounds good.

The last time i heard from NIB Trivandrum, they said they have raised the contention ratio to 1:40.

Must be the reason why dataone is slow many times of the day recently..!!!

What is really curious about this, is that it is another government-institution-based organisation, and yet it will, if it survives and grows, give BSNL etc unanswerable competition.

Must be some politics behind it, somewhere... but if, ultimately, it helps to bring our connections up in speed and down in price, then who cares what the politicians are up to!

^ You mean up in speed and down in contention ratio, effectively requiring no upgrade of bandwidth from the ISP and no effort (except advertising).

Just to add to pot, a somewhat recent article

www.cxotoday.com/cxo/j...cat_id=912

I just hopped around their homepage and the "Apply Online" button attracted me. So i gave a peek and it shows all the states in our county for the "State" field with the default being Karnataka. Does it mean its available in Andhra Pradesh too?

See the second column in tariffs. ... 25p / MB on those plans.. anlongside "unlimited plans"...

256 kbps Unlimited Rs 320
256 kbps 25p / MB Rs 60 + usage.

1Re = 4 MB.
They are charging Rs 240 extra... so if we download 4*240 = 960 MB then unlim plan = the other....

If you download more it wil be costlier...

Wonder why we have a 960 MB "limit" here... sounds fishy.

If the RailWire - Various Unlimited Plans get success then it is going to change the era of the BSNL.

Hi guys,
I got this reply today when I posted the same to railwire guys.

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Dear Mr. Agarwal, Warm Greetings from RailWire! This is w.r.t.your recent online enquiry with RailWire (appended below). We are glad to receive your enquiry. Pune will come under our pan-India rollout plans. From the customer care desk, we don’t have good visibility into the exact dates/timelines. However, you could expect us to reach pune towards the latter half of year 09. With warm regards, Team - RailWire Operations eMail: connect @ railwire.in | Tel: 91 80 4060 88 99 | URL: www.railwire.in SMS: RAILWIRE(space)<Your Location> to 5 67 67 75 RailWire is an initiative of RailTel Corporation of India Ltd., Ministry of Railways, Govt. of India The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete all copies from any computer.

Interesting reply, isn't it

He he he... Only the reply is very much polished... I have inquired in May 2008. The service is available barely 6 KM from my home. Even today the same response. They have not expanded even 100mtrs from their pilot coverage area.

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on 13 May 2008: Dear Mr.Bharathi, Warm Greetings from RailWire! This is w.r.t. your recent online enquiry with RailWire (appended below). We are glad to receive your enquiry. We have launched presently at Kundalahalli Whitefield, we will keep you posted on the developments. With warm regards, Team - RailWire Operations eMail : connect @ railwire.in | Tel : 91 80 4060 88 99 | URL : www.railwire.in SMS : RAILWIRE(space)<Your Location> to 5 67 67 75 RailWire is an initiative of RailTel Corporation of India Ltd., Ministry of Railways, Govt. of India

somebody from hisar, gujrat also put up an online petition for its services sometime back

www.petitionspot.com/p...s/RailWire

the point to take here is that 110 people have already signed up for that petition.