Best GPRS Service in Karnataka

[noja]

Here is my experience of GPRS service by different service providers in Karnataka. [Please post your review of service provides in your city. Looking forward to New Delhi and Mumbai Users review]
I tried Tata Docomo, Idea and Airtel and here are the results.

Tata Docomo
Network= pathetic
Speed= ~10 Kbits/s average
Connectivity= very slow, disconects due to bad network coverage[signal strength]

Idea
Network= very good
Speed= ~64Kbits/s very good, comparable to the lowest speed broadband.
Connectivity = excellent, never disconnects even with low signal strength

Airtel
Network= Excelent
Speed= 1Kbits/s Pathetic
Connectivity= Pathetic, disconnects all the time even with full signal strength. Does not even re connect easily.

[khmadhu]

Originally Posted by noja

Airtel
Network= Excelent
Speed= 1Kbits/s Pathetic
Connectivity= Pathetic, disconnects all the time even with full signal strength. Does not even re connect easily.

r u sure about the speed of airtel..?? 1Kbits/s is almost no connectivity..!!

[noja]

Yeah keeps disconnecting. And very slow. Keep now that this is only for karnataka and not rest of india.

[thetechfreak]

Idea Network= very good
Speed= ~64Kbits/s very good,
comparable to the lowest speed
broadband.
Connectivity = excellent, never
disconnects even with low signal strength

Speeds seem terribly high.
how is Vodafone there?

here in Assam Vodafones the fastest.

gives speed similar to Idea there.

Here Relaince is the slowest.

[Sam]

^^ m getting a voda soon. Reliance have no GPRS since 2 month (this is a special case) & with Airtel most of the day i can't visit forum.

[thetechfreak]

^^ m getting a voda soon. Reliance
have no GPRS since 2 month (this is a
special case) & with Airtel most of the
day i can't visit forum.

m using this forum through Vodafone Live and Opera Mini 6 and you can see how cofortable I am to browse the forum[other than typing long posts in a non qwerty keypad]

[just_asim]

r u sure about the Airtel speed?
As I'm also in Karnataka ..and Airtel never gave me such a low speed...
Can you tell the package details for Idea?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by thetechfreak

m using this forum through Vodafone Live and Opera Mini 6 and you can see how cofortable I am to browse the forum[other than typing long posts in a non qwerty keypad]

sorry, no Voda for me. Android market won't open on vodafone live. needs VMC which cost a lot. will stick to Airtel

[noja]

Originally Posted by just_asim

r u sure about the Airtel speed?
As I'm also in Karnataka ..and Airtel never gave me such a low speed...
Can you tell the package details for Idea?

I live in udupi district of karnataka. a friend of mine lives in dharwad and he gets very good speed on airtel there. seems like my area has a lot of 2g traffic.

[just_asim]

Originally Posted by noja

I live in udupi district of karnataka. a friend of mine lives in dharwad and he gets very good speed on airtel there. seems like my area has a lot of 2g traffic.

ya, that may be the case with you...
Can you tell me the package details..

[noja]

rupee 98 plan on idea with daily usage limit of 100 mb for 30 days.
rupee 98 plan on airtel with 2gb monthly usage

[rajeevk]

Well I am also using Idea 98 GPRS prepaid plan in Patna but I had never got such a high speed. Max. speed I got is 10-11 kb/s. For mobile this speed is ok but for PC it is pathetic.

[PraKs]

Karnataka may have highest number of GPRS users due to IT people.

If everyone will use GPRS, Any network will go down

[thetechfreak]

Originally Posted by PraKs

If everyone will use GPRS, Any network will go down

Here in Assam, Reliance probably has lowest number of GPRS users but still we get an amazing speed of 1 mb per day


Reliance is THE WORST in Assam. Nothing can beat it. I dont know how they manage to achieve this.

[xtremevicky]

Dude, Airtel GPRS is what Is keeping me alive .

Here is the thing , I am new to Bangalore and i have no permanent place to settle down so in my friends laptop I use Airtel GPRS . I read a lot of forums and lots of footie websites and I use lots of internet.

Connectivity : If you have a 3G phone better select the network as 2G . Do that If you want good speed on the GPRS/ EDGE.

Signal : I get great coverage in both 2G and 3G.

Speed : I get 56-70 Kbps when I use it between 10am to 10 pm. At night I get around 118 Kbps ( Not download ).

Plan : 2GB 98/- . I End up finishing 1.8GB . I download occasional songs from Ares also .

What I use : I have Facebook always opened . I connect to Twitter using Tweetdeck which remains connected all the time . I use Skype also at the same time .

With these 3 open all the time I can surf one more website at decent speed but when you open 2 , It will start crying .

I have heared that Voda is also good here . I also have docomo as in my other phone which sucks to the core . Only good thing about that is 2p/1sec International Calling at 27 a month .

PS : With all due respect , Udipi district is not even half of Bangalore leave alone Karnataka .

[noja]

I know that but lately airtel speed has declined here so I was forced to use idea.

[xtremevicky]

I am online because of Airtel !

[123shree]

Originally Posted by noja

I live in udupi district of karnataka. a friend of mine lives in dharwad and he gets very good speed on airtel there. seems like my area has a lot of 2g traffic.

I too live in Udupi district of Karnataka and I am also facing the same problem with Airtel. Getting 2-3kB/s. Idea is better here...

[noja]

I wonder how airtel 3g works here. 1gb for 15k lol

[Scorpion]

am moving to bangalore next month, please suggest me a good network with
1)Good connectivity
2)Cheap STD call rates.

dont want to hijack this thread, but any suggestion?

[xtremevicky]

Docomo and Uninor has very cheap call rates but there connectivity is poor . I use docomo and it hardly runs the Internet and I will ditch it soon .

Airtel and Vodafone are the way to go in " Bangalore " if you want a great network . Stay away from Airtel 3G.