BSNL EVDO Data Card and Tariff

BSNL Launched EVDO services back in September 2007 and have been upgrading their networks since then.  What is this EVDO ?

EVDO is short form of Evolution Data Optimized.  According to Wikipedia:

Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only, abbreviated as EV-DO or EVDO and often EV, is a telecommunications standard for the wireless  transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. It uses multiplexing techniques including code division multiple access (CDMA) as well as time division multiple access (TDMA) to maximize both individual user’s throughput and the overall system throughput. It is standardized by 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) as part of the CDMA2000  family of standards and has been adopted by many mobile phone service providers around the world – particularly those previously employing CDMA networks. It is also used on the Globalstar  satellite phone network.

BSNL offers you two types of services

• BSNL NIC Cards (Speeds up to 144Kbps)
• BSNL EVDO Cards (Speeds up to 2.4Mbps)

As of date BSNL offers roaming facility also on both type of Cards as well.

Cost of Data Cards

The data card is available on both rent and purchase basis from BSNL. In case you purchase the EVDO card of NIC card , it would cost you Rs 3500 and 2500 respectively, but in case you do not want to purchase it from BSNL then you have option to rent it by giving a refundable security deposit of Rs1000 and monthly rent of Rs 200 for EVDO cards and Rs 150 for NIC cards.

More can be clear from the table below

If you plan to purchase a BSNL EVDO Card or a BSNL NIC card please note the following things.

1. Speed mentioned is upto 2.4Mbps in EVDO Card , it might not be possible to get full 2.4Mbps all the time.
2. Speeds of upto 2.4 Mbps is subject to technical feasibility.
3. Not all cities have EVDO enabled towers.
4. If you are in an enclosed space then it might not be possible for you to get speeds up to 2.4Mbps.
5. The distance between BSNL Towers and your residential area is also an important factor in speeds.
6. One more thing, number of users simultaneously using this device may also limit your speeds.

Finally the cities where EVDO Service is currently active

1. Allahabad.
2. Alleppy
3. Ahmedabad
4. Anantapur
5. Bangalore
6. Bhopal
7. Bhubaneswar
8. Bokaro
9. Calicut
10. Chennai (Outer Peripheral Areas Only)
11. Changanacherry, KL
12. Chandigarh
13. Hamirpur (H.P)
14. Cochin
15. Coimbatore
16. Dehradun
17. Dhanbad
18. Durgapur, West Bengal
19. Ernakulam
20. Erode
21. Firozabad
22. Gandhinagar, KL
23. Goa
24. Gurgaon
25. Guwahati
26. Hyderabad
27. Indore
28. Indrapuram
29. Jabalpur
30. Jaipur
31. Jammu
32. Jamshedpur
33. Kanchipuram
34. Kanpur
35. Kaushambi
36. Kottayam
37. Kerala (Most Towns)
38. Karaikal – Kerala
39. Kilvelur – TN
40. Kolkata
41. Kottayam
42. Kurnool
43. Lucknow
44. Ludhiana
45. Malapuram
46. Mohali
47. Nachiyarkoil – TN
48. Nagpur
49. Noida.
50. Pala, KL
51. Palakkad, Kerala
52. Pampady, KL
53. Panaji.
54. Panchkula
55. Pathanamthitta
56. Patna
57. Puducherry UT – Karaikal
58. Pune
59. Rajkot
60. Ranchi
61. Salem
62. Shajapur, M.P
63. Surat
64. Thirungaer, Madhurai
65. Tirunelveli – Palayamkottai Exchg
66. Tirupur, TN
67. Trichur
68. Trichy
69. Trivandrum
70. Ujjain, M.P
71. Vadadora
72. Vasundhra
73. Vasai, KL
74. Vaishali Region of Ghaziabad
75. Virar, KL