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Here some information and you can call a review of Tata Photon+ and some pro's and con's of it, by a close friend who used Tata Photon+.

The hardware used for Tata Photon+ is the Huawei EC1260 USB 1.1 Modem, and its color is black, along with this hardware a USB cable is also given.

The pros of Tata Photon+ are as follows:
- It gives good signal and it does have its delays which is acceptable when using any mobile broadband connection
- Speed you get is from 200kbps to 1300kbps
- You are able to configure the modem but you must not that this invalidates the warranty
- Overall design of the Tata Photon+ is good
- Tata Photon + has an inbuilt card reader for extended storage
- Supports both Windows and MacOS
- Tata Photon + has a USB which has ROM to set it all up, so no CD's
- Total bandwidth you get is 25GB (15GB for the Rs1500 plan and add on 10GB night plan)


The cons of Tata Photon+ are as follows:
- The customer service is awful
- Technical support is not good and not very helpful
- According to fair usage policy maximum bandwidth usage is 15GB
- No support for Linux or Unix
- Less bandwidth in majority cities other then major big cities