Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.   (MTNL)

MTNL is an Indian Government-owned telephone service provider in the metro cities of Mumbai and New Delhi in India. The company was a monopoly until 1992, when the telecom sector was opened to other service providers. MTNL provides fixed line telephones, cellular connection of both GSM ? Dolphin(Postpaid) and Trump (prepaid) and WLL (CDMA) ? Garuda-FW And Garuda-Mobile and internet services through dialup and DSL ? Broadband internet TriBand. MTNL has also started Games on demand, video on demand and IPTV services in India through its Broadband Internet service called Triband. Phone numbers belonging to MTNL start with the prefix 2 infixed line telephones and WLL & in GSM Mobile services start from 901x/ 9868/69 / 9968/69. MTNL also provides other services such as VPN,Internet Telephony- VOIP and leased lines through BSNL and VSNL. MTNL has upgraded existing TriBand (Broadband) connections for a speed of up to 2 MB/s without any extra cost. This 2 MB/s broadband service is being provided by MTNL at a cost of just Rs 49 (US$1.00) per month. Every additional 1MB download after the 200 limit will cost you Rs 1 (0.5 cents) extra. MTNL is also Unlimited Broadband plan without any ?Fair Usage Policy? or limitations regarding download and uploads just at Rs.395 (US$8.00) per month. MTNL started 3G services in India under the name of 'MTNL 3G Jadoo' Services offered include Video call, Mobile TV and Mobile Broadband with high speed data connectivity up to 2 Mbit/s speed from 11 December 2008, getting India on the 3G map of the world. MTNL rolled out its BlackBerry solutions on the 2G and 3G networks by launching India?s first 3G enabled BlackBerry Bold smart phones.

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