My experience with BSNL 4G after porting from Jio

[saketk11]

I am using secondary sim - BSNL.
Ported from Jio to bsnl in Jan 2025
Using iphone, so getting all calls via VOLTE.
cant tell which band it connect 700 or 2100mhz.

Voice quality is good, considering all calls are volte and its my secondary sim.

Speeeeeeeeeeed?
Speedtest app shows maximum 50mbps downaload and 24 mbps upload

my residance, work place, travel within city, shows LTE, 99% of time
Traveling to outside city gives 80% of time LTE signal,

Is it worth usable.
I would say yes my 99% usage of internet on iphone is fulfilled by bsnl 4g sim,
whenever signal goes to 3g or GPRS, its dead slow .
Because averga speed is 14mbps for download and 7 mbps for upload with LTE signal for more than 90% of time of usage.

Only concern as of today is BSNL donet support ESIM, and i dont want to convert my other airtel sim into esim into iphone.
Plan to go for annual recharge, in first or second week of march . because bsnl may notoriously increse prices or decrese validity from 1st april to show profits

Usage areas - Maharashtra and Gujrat circle.

important question lowest speed is 0.5 mbps at certain places where signal is weakest at certain time like evening.

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

Good to hear that, you are getting LTE at 99% of the places in Maharashtra. BSNL has been good in Gujarat.

 

[anupbharadwaj]

Is BSNL 4G available in Bangalore? If yes, how to get it, is there any sms to be sent? how to do it??

 

[Aniruddha Dhar]

I noticed using only BSNL sim in the handset whether in first or second slot gives the finest results both in terms of VoLte calls and data speed.

 

[stiwari]

Do not port other sim,you go out and travel,BSNL will be mostly dead,with nil speed