Mumbai’s largest Broadband Service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) on Sunday launched 2 Mbps Broadband plan –“Broadband For Every Home” to make high speed broadband connection affordable to all sections of the masses. This is an attempt to provide enhanced value proposition to the customers,

The move is aimed at making MTNL’s ADSL based wire-line Broadband services (Triband) more popular to the public as entry cost has now come down to a new affordable level of just Rs.25 per month (effective cost).

MTNL Broadband For Every Home plan will cost Rs.300 for 12 months (one year) Broadband access with speed up to 2 Mbps (effective cost  Rs.25/month) it comes with free usage of 50 MB per month (total 600 MB data usage). After free usage data charges will be as low as 20 paisa per MB for further usage.

All new customers opting “Broadband for Every Home” plan will also pay one time charges Rs. 200 for installation and testing Rs.300 and Rs.600 for MTNL wired or wireless (WiFi) modem respectively and Rs.50 per month ADSL Modem rental extra. If customers use their own modem than modem charges will not applicable.

This new plan is suitable only for casual Broadband users; hence high data usage customer can opt any other plans starting from Rs.395 per with Unlimited Data usage at 512 Kbps speed and 2 Mbps Xpress Broadband plans starting from Rs.600 per month.