Tata Teleservices Limited launched Tata Photon+ mobile broadband service in late June 2009, which has been a good success till now. It offers two types of facility, USB Modem service for single users & Router service for multiple users for business purpose. New users can apply through its website or call them for installation. The Tata personal comes in customer location and install the modem or router. The USB modem has in-built driver software, Huawei PC suite which is used to connect & configure the internet. The Modem is known as Huawei EC1260 USB 1.1 Broadband Modem by the computer or laptop and it works for any version of windows starting from Windows 98 to Windows 7. However neither Huawei nor Tata Teleservices support Linux or UNIX officially, it has to be separately configured by the user for using the USB modem other than Windows Operating system.
TATA Photon
The usage plan and data rates are different for different cities, but they alter in small amount. The USB Modem has two types of plans, depending upon data used & depending upon time of using the modem. The monthly rental of data use start from Rs.500/- and have separate plans like:
- Data usage in USB Modem of monthly 0.5GB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB and 15 GB costs per month Rs.500/-, Rs.650/-, Rs.750/-, Rs.950/- & Rs.1100/- & Rs.1500/- accordingly with Rs.0.50/- charge on every MB used extra.
- Time based tariff of monthly 30 hours, 60 hours & 120 hours costs Rs.500/-, Rs.750/- & Rs.1000/- irrelevant of the data used with additional Rs.1/- for per minute extra use.
- Monthly rental plan of Rs. 250/- is available with Rs.1/- per minute charge, as pay per minute procedure.
- Special day & night plan is available which enables of monthly 60 hours daytime use & monthly 90 hours of nighttime use which costs Rs.900/- per month in total, with Rs.1/- charge of per minute extra used. The daytime counts from 7 AM to 11 PM & nighttime counts from 11 PM to 7 AM, according to Indian Standard Time.
- Additional rental package is available for power users for yearly basis. Yearly 12 GB, 24 GB, 60 GB & 120 GB usage costs accordingly Rs.7,800/-, Rs.9,000/-, Rs.11,400/- & Rs.13,200/- per year in total with Rs.0.5/- on every extra MB used. Facility of this package is USB Modem is given free along with any selected yearly plan.
- A Special Night Surf pack is available for Rs.200/- to use 10GB more with any of the monthly plans covering charge based on data usage which can only be used in 11 PM to 7 AM span.
The above is applicable for post paid service, for prepaid service, Tata Photon+ has High Speed Internet Access (HSIA) Plans which gives up to 3.1 MBPS speed but in that case the USB modem has to be bought separately for Rs.3500/-. The prepaid plan has vouchers which gives 250 MB, 650 MB, 1Gb, 2 GB, 4 GB & 5 GB usage on cost of Rs.200/-, Rs.500/-, Rs.700/-, Rs. 850/-, Rs.1000/- & Rs.1200/- with 30 days validity.
TATA Photon Plus USB
For business purpose Tata Photon+ has its Router service which costs Rs.6999/- security deposit & Rs.1000/- installation charge apart from the plan. There are 3 prepaid plans of Rs.3000/-, Rs.4500/- & Rs.6999/- which has 10 GB, 15 GB & 35 GB download limit. These packages should be hired for 9 months, 6 months & 3 months minimum, accordingly.
The speed in Tata Photon+ stays for 1 mbps – 2 mbps average and it covers 66 major cities in India, allowing High Speed Internet Access.
Tata Photon+ Coverage Cities
Positive parts of Tata Photon+ are good speed through HSIA, good signal quality in major cities, driver software is included in the USB Modem but they lacks with poor customer support & low grade technical support, the field where Tata Teleservices Limited should be looking into.
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hey Shaswat, thanks for the detailed post
I have been looking into this as my secondary broadband so I can move around the country.
I’ve enrolled in 1-hr/day plan, that will get me 30Hrs in a month..what happens if I use 2 hrs on one day and 0 hrs on other day and my total for the month doesn’t exceed 30 hrs. Do I still charged for that extra hour on the day when I used 2 hrs.
Anyone has experienced this kind of issues?
hey thanks budy,i really needs these information.
Hey YT, For your question, there will not be any charge if your mothly usage is less than OR equal to 30 hours. It doesn’t matter how much you use in a day.
already i am tata photon user,tell me process to change the existing plan according to my requirment and process of disconnect connection.