Thread: how the usage is calculated

hi guys this is praveen from hyderabad,i am a bsnl 250 plan user and i am not able to understand how the 1GB usage mentioned in the plan is calculated,my first bill was about 1500(modem+usage) for november and for december it was 500 but it should be Rs.250(bb charge)+55(tax)+130(landline rent)=435,here is the big problem after 5days of 435bill issue i received anthor bill of485 stating explicitely for bbusage,what all is this??,i never downloaded any file or other>20MB,i tried Dataone portal but vain,SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE.........

hello praveen

you have to be very careful of rs250 plan as it permits only 1 gb download,

regarding your question about how the calculation is done i can just give you an idea ,you see when you open any website it counts in your download limit(as opening website also means downloading something) every single work done on internet will be counted and it will be added in your download limit.

If you have received 2 bills and you think that both of them are not justified, just submit a written complaint to the `aotr' along with details of your usage etc., and get a copy of the letter signed & sealed (rubber stamped). if you have not been able to log into the portal to check your usage, mention the same in your letter too.

Originally Posted by surenani

hi guys this is praveen from hyderabad,i am a bsnl 250 plan user and i am not able to understand how the 1GB usage mentioned in the plan is calculated,my first bill was about 1500(modem+usage) for november and for december it was 500 but it should be Rs.250(bb charge)+55(tax)+130(landline rent)=435,here is the big problem after 5days of 435bill issue i received anthor bill of485 stating explicitely for bbusage,what all is this??,i never downloaded any file or other>20MB,i tried Dataone portal but vain,SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE.........

Player has already told you what is considered as part and parcel of your usage limit. I suggest that you read the BSNL DataOne FAQ very carefully. Do not skip any question.

This is what BSNL says:

13 What is download/upload?
When the information flows from somewhere e.g. a web-page or a site to your PC you are "downloading" on the other hand when you send information e.g. request for a web-page, you are "uploading"

33 What all can I do with 1 GB(Giga Byte) download?
One GB is 1024 Megabyte or 1073741824 bytes. You can do the following with 1 GB download limit:

1. An average web page is about 50 kilobytes in size - so you could download around 20,000 web pages for 1 gigabyte.
2. An hour of surfing the web would be around 10 megabytes (200 pages) so you could surf non-stop for about 100 hours for 1 gigabyte.
3. An hour of streamed radio would use about 15-20 megabytes.
4. An hour of streamed video uses around 100-150 megabytes.
5. Playing an online game typically uses about 10-15 megabytes per hour.
6. Emails are very small - so 100 emails would be just 1 megabyte - or 100,000 emails for 1 gigabyte! (of course the attachments count extra)
7. A super-high resolution (5-6 megapixel) digital camera JPEG picture or typical MP3 music file is about 2-3 megabytes so you could download 350-500 of these images/music files for 1 gigabyte. Very few users would actually exceed the download limits set.

I feel something wrong with the billing that has been given to you the second time. As there will not be any two bills in a single month from bsnl, even though if you have exceeded the limit, it will be a single bill only. take both bills to your accounts officer and clarify the same!