Thought I should post my experiences of using MTNL.
I stay near adchini in South Delhi. Earlier (months ago) we used to face frequent disconnection issues. The ppl with huge tummy came a number of times to fix it. Soon after a few hours of usage it would again disconnect by itself. The mtnl people came again to fix it. Thankfully the problem no longer exist.
Now that's not what I want to share.
After going through some posts I can see that many of you have very bad experiences especially with the "customer service" (if it actually exist lol) which i find it surprising because here we have a very good service. The engineers have been prompt everytime we make a complaint. If you make a complaint during early office timing they'll send someone to fix the problem on that day itself. If in case you make a complaint a little later in the evening they'll send the engineer the following day if its not a holiday. It doesn't usually take more than two days to get the issue solved. Great, no? My only problem is with the bills. As per speedtest we are getting around 0.50mbps ul/dl and we pay around 1000-1250rs every month. What sort of plan this is, i have no idea.
anyway Not bragging but we stay in a...how should i put it... "influential" area (no, it does not have anything to do with "TU NE PATA HAI MERA BAAP KAUN HUN??!" thing) which has number of privileged people and afaik none of us have a non-mtnl connection. Now, when you call up the c/c number (i dont know if its the c/c number, its landline number) the person on the other end asks something like "what's your location?", right? I think thats the moment which changes everything. Their reaction might have depended on the place you stay.
We all use mtnl in our residential colony. Its likely that since its a govt. residential area mtnl is being made compulsory under some sort of deals. Just my thought. I can see no other reason why.
Now, i would be moving out of this place (no, my family will still be here) this summer to Tuqlakabad. And i want to apply for a mtnl broadband connection. I'm worried that the situation will not be the same. Its located far away from our present residence and also farther than nehru place. Gawd help me. T.T