Thread: My experiences with Tata photon mobile broad brand

Hi
My wife has a reliance Post paid (company given) data card.It works well but Reliance is not priced right for pre paid. Iam on tour 20 days a month.At home I have tata 512kbs ADSL broad band connected to 4 pcs thro router.
I bought Tata photon Mobile broadband pre paid pack 4-5 months back (rs 2399+100) at Hyderabad.
why I bought Tata photon was the balance can be carried forward by a small recharge with 30 days validity.
I usually recarge 1350 (10 gb) .On the 29th day ,usually i would have consumed anywhere between 6-8gb.So I will pay Rs 200 for 300 mb and stretch the balance for another 7-10 days. When the balance falls below 400 mb (my maximum daily usuage) repeat same Rs 1350 recharge and so on.
A month back I was considering spending extra Rs 2000 for MTS as they are offering a good deal for Rs1000 (15GB ) -(all pre paid-no post paid discussed- ,but no balance carry forward options)
I read your thread recently for info on BSNL 3G (Rs 2500 data usb +rs 179 starter sim + rs 4200 for 6 months un limited pre paid ).
Now I have made up my mind some what to go for bsnl 3g by next month and keep photon as a stand by for me or for my kid .
I usually use it in secunderabad,bangalore or chennai (mostly heart of the town).
I am writing this from my lodge at Triplicane chennai .I am getting 412 kbps down load and 212 upload. Iam using Acer Travel mate 5320 Notebook (3 yrs old with 2 gb ram) Guess Iam lucky beacuse all my locations are in the main road and near tower.so speed wise iam happy and I only access us/london based banks and brokers. no unneccessary browsing,no music etc.
My experience of using Tata photon in the chennai-Hyderabad ,chennai-bangalore, bangalore-hyderabad trains is somewhat ok (only at raliway stations when it stops) . Over all speed -can not complain for 2G.
If I have to re do it again(Pre paid)- I will go with MTS or BSNL 2g/3g if the network is there in your area (as price is cheaper for pre paid )
hope this helps for new prospective customers.

Originally Posted by ulysses

Hi
My wife has a reliance Post paid (company given) data card.It works well but Reliance is not priced right for pre paid. Iam on tour 20 days a month.At home I have tata 512kbs ADSL broad band connected to 4 pcs thro router.
I bought Tata photon Mobile broadband pre paid pack 4-5 months back (rs 2399+100) at Hyderabad.
why I bought Tata photon was the balance can be carried forward by a small recharge with 30 days validity.
I usually recarge 1350 (10 gb) .On the 29th day ,usually i would have consumed anywhere between 6-8gb.So I will pay Rs 200 for 300 mb and stretch the balance for another 7-10 days. When the balance falls below 400 mb (my maximum daily usuage) repeat same Rs 1350 recharge and so on.
A month back I was considering spending extra Rs 2000 for MTS as they are offering a good deal for Rs1000 (15GB ) -(all pre paid-no post paid discussed- ,but no balance carry forward options)
I read your thread recently for info on BSNL 3G (Rs 2500 data usb +rs 179 starter sim + rs 4200 for 6 months un limited pre paid ).
Now I have made up my mind some what to go for bsnl 3g by next month and keep photon as a stand by for me or for my kid .
I usually use it in secunderabad,bangalore or chennai (mostly heart of the town).
I am writing this from my lodge at Triplicane chennai .I am getting 412 kbps down load and 212 upload. Iam using Acer Travel mate 5320 Notebook (3 yrs old with 2 gb ram) Guess Iam lucky beacuse all my locations are in the main road and near tower.so speed wise iam happy and I only access us/london based banks and brokers. no unneccessary browsing,no music etc.
My experience of using Tata photon in the chennai-Hyderabad ,chennai-bangalore, bangalore-hyderabad trains is somewhat ok (only at raliway stations when it stops) . Over all speed -can not complain for 2G.
If I have to re do it again(Pre paid)- I will go with MTS or BSNL 2g/3g if the network is there in your area (as price is cheaper for pre paid )
hope this helps for new prospective customers.

Please ask username Rajan before purchasing the 3G from bsnl, he told me that he is not getting speeds at full at his place.

Hi Mickey
thanks for your reply. iam a new member here. when I saw your reply ,I went and saw most of your past threads. you are contributing indeed a lot to the thread. iam not able to send a message to "rajan". (which city he is using bsnl 3g and not happy) .I saw another thread in which "ramli" gave a deailed BSNL spped test results for usage in chennai.
Iam going to use mostly in chennai,secunderabad (heart of city /main road and occasional use in bangalore (heart of city) .i already got bSNL tower network info. Just now I checked my PHoton speed @ speedtest.net (download 1.18 mbps and upload 0.2 mbps).
If I buy BSNL only bad investment will be the modem rs 2500 given by them.
even though rs 4200/6months prepaid top up is attractive ,may be I should go for 1 month rs1000+ recharge and get satisfied and then go for 6 months validity prepaid recharge (rs 4200).
Thanks anyway. My photon validity is till dec 18th. so I may buy bsnl only around 15th dec and keep my photon alive by recharging Rs200 and carry forward for another 30 days

Originally Posted by ulysses

Hi Mickey
thanks for your reply. iam a new member here. when I saw your reply ,I went and saw most of your past threads. you are contributing indeed a lot to the thread. iam not able to send a message to "rajan". (which city he is using bsnl 3g and not happy) .I saw another thread in which "ramli" gave a deailed BSNL spped test results for usage in chennai.
Iam going to use mostly in chennai,secunderabad (heart of city /main road and occasional use in bangalore (heart of city) .i already got bSNL tower network info. Just now I checked my PHoton speed @ speedtest.net (download 1.18 mbps and upload 0.2 mbps).
If I buy BSNL only bad investment will be the modem rs 2500 given by them.
even though rs 4200/6months prepaid top up is attractive ,may be I should go for 1 month rs1000+ recharge and get satisfied and then go for 6 months validity prepaid recharge (rs 4200).
Thanks anyway. My photon validity is till dec 18th. so I may buy bsnl only around 15th dec and keep my photon alive by recharging Rs200 and carry forward for another 30 days

well i dont know how you can talk to rajan.. he is frm bangalore..

Originally Posted by mickey

well i dont know how you can talk to rajan.. he is frm bangalore..

I think you mean rajan1311. Pm him or check out his profile ------> his contact info -----> you could skype him.





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Originally Posted by cooldoc

I think you mean rajan1311. Pm him or check out his profile ------> his contact info -----> you could skype him.





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Please dont mind. Im like this only.

pm him.. he comes regularly..