Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Data card

There was no wireless internet service provider in India untill a few years ago and then there was a sudden flood of wireless internet service providers. The big players are airtel, reliance, tata indicom and bsnl has also joined the march. These isps provide wireless internet connections using a data card with different technologies like CDMA, WLL, GSM and some of them provide a usb plug in modem like tata indicom and reliance netconnect do.
Data cards come handy when you are travelling on a train or even on a highway and need to stay connected on the go. I have used almost all of them and have now settled with reliance data card which I have found to be more reliable and faster then the other data cards available in the India market.
Bsnl has just launched data cards with EVDO technology which is capable of connections with speed more then 2Mbps and is already available in some parts of UP and a few other states across India although BSNL has still not increased the prices for the EVDO data cards.