My experience with BSNL 4G after porting from Jio

[TheAndroidFreak]

BSNL is still ~5-7 years behind the competitors.

BSNL with 3L sites with 2100Mhz+700Mhz+900Mhz will be able to compete with Vi and Airtel. Jio and BSNL will never be able to match coverage or capacity.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Final review after using the BSNL network for 90+ days.

1. BSNL is still ~5-7 years behind the competitors.
2. BSNL offices are looking like a ghost houses without proper maintainance and old generation employees.
3. Service requests gets closed automatically, without even bothering to call the customer.
4. Customer care just provide solutions to insert SIM in primary slots, restart phone etc.
5. Speed is comparatively slower than any other 4g network with highest ping time.
6. Network is not optimized and keeps switching the barriers 2g/3g/4g
7. There is no carrier aggregation to serve 4g with multiple frequency bands.
8. VoLTE not activated by default and calling issues atleast 90% of the time if traveling
9. Google maps goes out of network
10. No ESIM support yet
11. Sometimes Call connects to wrong people.
12. OTP never comes ontime
13. Can't rely on network for making payments and need to keep cash for emergency always.
14. Network coverage is not so great and in most of the roads, atleast10dbm lesser signal than its competitors.


Just port out request sent to VI network. Will review once VI is fully active.

I faced one more problem upi service is very bad only google pay and amazon pay are working on bsnl network and other upi is showing something wrong. I was also port out from bsnl after 90 days

 

[React]

One last worst experience of BSNL..
My port out was supposed to be done by today at 10:11pm and still the network is not gone and unable to use new SIM.
Don't know if BSNL is on some different time zone.

 

[hike]

One last worst experience of BSNL..
My port out was supposed to be done by today at 10:11pm and still the network is not gone and unable to use new SIM.
Don't know if BSNL is on some different time zone.

Not just BSNL each company switch network in early morning today when you wakes up there would be no network until unless you replace sim with new network.

 

[Advik]

Not just BSNL each company switch network in early morning today when you wakes up there would be no network until unless you replace sim with new network.

No. Port out process always complete on same given date and exact time. I experienced it two times. My new SIM got activated at same time which I got in SMS.

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

BSNL to add 1 lakh more 4G towers; to seek cabinet nod: MoS Chandrasekhar

 

[React]

BSNL to add 1 lakh more 4G towers; to seek cabinet nod: MoS Chandrasekhar

Another 1 to 1.5 years for 4G launch.

BSNL is still not present in many Taluks and Villages in Karnataka and people who switches to BSNL might have to struggle a lot and cannot be relied as a Primary Sim.

It can be used as a secondary sim just to retain the number with minimum recharge. BSNL also increasing MRP of recharge plans and slowly revising the plans benefit. So, there are better options for people to choose in the market.

Only if BSNL comes with affordable 5G with strong network and speed, then only it can survive in the industry.

 

[kaushikroy4u]

BSNL app not working in its own network , it says unstable connection even with full 4G signal in BSNL
when swicthed to wifi/ jio/airtel it works fine

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

Another 1 to 1.5 years for 4G launch.

BSNL is still not present in many Taluks and Villages in Karnataka and people who switches to BSNL might have to struggle a lot and cannot be relied as a Primary Sim.

It can be used as a secondary sim just to retain the number with minimum recharge. BSNL also increasing MRP of recharge plans and slowly revising the plans benefit. So, there are better options for people to choose in the market.

Only if BSNL comes with affordable 5G with strong network and speed, then only it can survive in the industry.

BSNL needs 3L towers with blanket coverage with 700Mhz+900Mhz on it, to become secondary sim. But it's sad that, BSNL opted for 700Mhz. 900Mhz was available from 2020 for 4G deployment. BSNL wasted two years into 2100Mhz deployment and did nothing actually. Time is crucial in Telecom industry. Vi didn't do anything since 2017-2019 and then suffered huge. Airtel deployed band 3 extensively in 2018, band 40 extensively in 2019, band 1+8 in 2020, again band 40 in 2021. Deployed fiber from 2018-2021 extensively and hence a slight ahead of Vi.


BSNL needs extensive deploent of band 1/41, to be considered as primary sim. That can only happen post 2028. Huge revenues will come from 2029-2030. Don't expect anything before that.

 

[Balaji G]

BSNL employees never works and we cannot see any improvement on their. It's better to stay away instead of wasting time and money.