Most of people using BSNL EVDO Data cards complain of poor speeds, greater fluctuations and lack of connectivity.

While BSNL is definitely best in providing the cheapest wireless internet services, same cannot be said about the quality of BSNL. At times you may get speeds of 2 Mbps while at others you may even struggle to get 50 kbps.

The average speeds achieved through EVDO however remain in the region of about 120- 200 kbps with average download speeds ranging from 8- 25 KBps. Let’s try to understand the reason behind it.

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Wireless broadband is definitely the future of mobile communication in India. Most of the students and young business executives these days prefer to use wireless internet services.

Of the all the wireless internet services currently available in India,  BSNL offers the cheapest of them all, but most of the people still have doubt about what it actually is. In the days to come we will try to discuss in detail all you want to know about BSNL EVDO Data Card and what you can expect from it. Here is a brief overview.
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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.

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